The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-11

few may come out Of it stronger. but
yet battie-scarred and crippled. It's
aim is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES charac-
ter, first and always. Its atmosphere
Is not less patriotic than that of the
State college, but also definitely and
distinctly and d~esisnedly Christian
not Sectarian. not narrow, for there is
no narrowness in Chrisr-but broadly
and genuinely Christian. We believe
that such institutions are d necessity
in our country and shall expect the
sun OF its glory to set forever when
they shall cease to eXer their saving
influence over the nation or depart
from their noble aim and heritage.
State Needs The Christian College.
The Christian college is a State
necessity. This paradox is easy to
justify and explain. Whoever has
read history knows hat the religious
bond is mightier than even the pa
triOtic in preserving national life. In
the Jews we have an instance OF the
religious bond making a nation a
unit, though dispersed over the ace
of the earth. No nation has ever beer
able to survive loss of faith in its
gods. unless there came with that loss
a compromising faith in the true God
NO nation has ever survived the loss
of faith in religion. Even the tenn
pOrary enthrOnement of f~ree-thinkers
and SkepticS in any land has brought
always a quick harvest of inquisitior
and prescription. and the bloody
havoc Of the block or the guillOtine
Some gency therefore, to cultivate
the intellect and the heart at the same
time of the men and women who are
to be leaders in the nations life is es
sential. That agency is the Christian
college.
New Force in Modern College Life.
Recently a new type Of higher edu
catiOnal institution has been fOlStet
upon the United States-the indie
pendent college. The Carnegie Foun
datiOn has busted itself in this direc
ton. not SO much with the effort t.
induce philanthroIiSts to found add
tional colleges, as with the effort t.
Wrest existing colleges from thei
founders and lawful owners. The Car
nesie hook is baited with gold, and ha
proved a most ~efficacious bait indeed
There is hardly a State in which
: some college has not had its charte
amended in SuCh manne as to WreS
from its founders legal ownership
:, Of itself i'm the hope OF a subsidy from
the willy steel magnate in the form o
, an outright donation or Of retiring al
iOWanceS for aged teachers and dis
+, carded administrative officers. TheS
; colleges Of sO-cailed larger freedom
, will eventually go the way of tn
: older free" institutions. like Harvard
Yale. Columbia and the University Q
Chicago-that is to say. with patriot
ism left out as a distinctive alma
atmosphere of scholarship and learn
ing The so-Called scientific spirit WI
G characterize their life. the chief mgr
dent of which is the skeptical attitud
y toward everything until proved. eve
oward religion and the deare NOR
: standards of national greatness. Man
i ifestlv this type Of institution can nc
c save the nation, and really render
he necessity for the CHRISTIAN inst
tuition more acute. America may "
80 tha day when his inSidious bus
ness Of upsetting her conservators {
n national life began its deSpirituaiizin
y campaign Of iniquity and Darkness.
Service Of the Christian college,.
: But has the Christian college snow
a. itself ia be q national necessity IN u