The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-12

way as 10 exclude religious instruction
SO as not TO be forced to take position
on certain vital religious and spiritual
interests. History and the social
sciences SIMPLY cannot be taught
without involving instruction fayora-
BILE or nimical to religious growth.
ne same is true of natural sciences
Literature has a tremendous bearing
on the spiritual life, and it makes
no difference whether this literature
IS ancient or modern. Philosophy
cannot be touched without involving
spiritual interests. Even mathematics
has its religious aspect. Since there
can be no education that does not
have its religious bearing. how can
We escape the conclusion that our
young people during the fateful four
years of college life are developing
an intellectual bias for or gains the
religious life? There is no escapc:
we are providing them a wholesome
religious atmosphere or thev are
breathing miasmatic germs destruc-
tive Of the spiritual life. Our educa-
ton shall be Christian or N -Christian
and each individual parent shall set
tie that lssue-it cannot be avoided.
The Free Tuition Bait-A Farce.
What will the outcome be? VIII
State college push Christian college
to the wall? O~stensibIy they have
the advantage a they can put
their hands in my pocket and in
yours and take therefrom the money
to perpetuate themselves. When they
lose a student in open, fair COMPETE
ton, they can carry the contest still
further and award scholarships with
cut limit, relying upon the power Of
taxation within their grasp, and they
are doing it every day, though ven
with free tuition it costs more to edu-
cate at these schools than in the
Christian COLLEGES and nav tujfiOn
OStenSibly these scholarships are
given to those who expect to teach
or to those who deserve them, which
latter class are limited in nuInbef
supposedly, but actually anybody who
lets it be known that he will come
on no other condition will find tn
scholarship .available,' and more
often they are given to the sciOns
of rich men n politicians than {,
those who most need them. Shall
this public plumber continue forever?
Never. But why not? What reason
| have you to believe that the Christian
college shall continue in the face OF
; the tremendous odds against it?
l believe the Christian college i:
here to stay and to grow and to in
5 crease, because it furnishes that ele
ment Of life without which there cal
} be no enduring estate or state, char
. acter. II the time were ever to com
wherein the great majority of GU,
] intellectual men were without char
. acter. the death-kneu Of the Stat
l would already have been sounded
But that day will not come. ! an
exceedingly optimistic over the situa
ton. There will always be some t
y whom the monetary consideration o
free tuition in a State college and tn
fa'se superstition that 1T will max
education cheaper for them. will out
weigh the character - developin
100000 in tho Chricfian cA1lQOn-o n
e if the product turned out by tn
Il State college could in any way com
l. pare with the product in Christia
e character of the Christian college,
is conceivable tina eventually tn
n Christian college would cease to eXis
) monetary bait. many will retur
II moral perverts and religious scot
fers. and the observation of thes
% un~fortunates will steel the thinkin
" parents round them against any sue
appeal in their case. n Christla
,e college, the product Of ChriStia
N hearts for the Christian end of edl
g eating the heart as wen as the hea'
Sc is destined to fill 4 anger place
J. our educational system and will mai
e. our education safely Christian.
le Our Education Is to BE Christian
Sc But l ought to add, in conclusio1
lis that this optimistic view will nt
make it less necessary for the frienC
/ Of Christian education to do the
re full duty by their Christian coueg
e. The Carnegie Foundation, the Rock
ID Teller Foundation and scores of rie
Of men, whose hearts are poor, are a
n. tive to break the power OF the r
ne ligion over education. They will su
Id coed. unless the liberaEty of Il
Christian world shall EXCEED n la
n ishness of these few would-be phila
lily thropists in the educational realm.
cir have faith and reason to believe tn
the men and women of the church
God will rally to the Christian coleg
and will save them from eclipse a.
ur to the worlds upbuilding. Wheth
ms or not our education shall be chr
tian or un-Christian is to be dete
on mined in the support accorded I
ife Christian colleges by the followers
tai Christ. I believe they will amply 50
IN. port them. both by gifts n
Of patronage. and for that reason w
at confidence l give utterance to I
- fait,, that is in me. that Our educ