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

80 III cut GtffktisitoD /
nan any rhetoric or augmentation
We nave had twentv-saven Presidents
- the United States. Nineteen were
coiiege graduates. All but two III them
were graduates Of Christian colleges
present Federal-Supr-me Court
has eight college graduates. seven Of
W'irn came from Christian colleges.
lWo-thirds Of the member, II Com
gross III both houses are graduates of
-tleHe same colleges. ard three-fourths
Of the Governors Of tn. various States
Practically all the teaching and ad-
niniStratlvc forces OF the Christian
colleges are graduates OF such col
ieSes. and forty per cent OF the same
n the State and independent inStitu-
tons are or like intellectual pedigree.
Eighteen III the twenty-5ix literary
lights OF the first rank in America are
graduates OF your Christian colleges.
The great majority of the lawyers.
physicians and other professional men |
or large distinction are graduates OF
these same colleges. a cursory .-iance
through Who's Who" will satisfy any |
one that the contribution Of the Chris
tan colleges OF the country to the az
sressive leadership Of our life in ali its
departments Is far out of proportion
10 the number committed to Their care !
and Instruction.. Yet the attendance
on Christian colleges is not increasing
actually 10 any appreCiabie degree but
IS decreasing relatively TO a marked
degree in the light of the u~nprecedent
81 growth in enrolment Of the State
and lnd"I adent Institutions. The
moral Of these facts is suggestive of
serious towering Of moral, Intellect
iai and professional standards. UNI
| less the sober sec~ond-thoueh for
Whlch the American people are prov
erbiaiiy noted shall turn the tide
back into the safe channel OF a cen
fury Of magnificent achievement. Man
lfeStly the State needs the Christian
College
Gilussi, Must Have Christian College.
But the Church needs il eve more
cannot possibly permit its extinction
and will not. 1t is a matter Of com
mon knowledge that the Church has
always led in education. The first
universities. of the Christian world
were Differed by clergy only and o
until 1882 did laymen acquire the
right Of serving on their teaching
StaffS. In our own country all educa-
ton was of the Church until Thomas
Jefferson in 1913 founded the tniver-
sity Of Virginia. Even today Of the
somewhat more than four hundred
colleges in the United States above
three hundred ara Of the Church. 1t
would be equally gratifying to RECORD
that seventy-live per cent of college
SJttIel1lS dIC eItolieu WIFI tttcSe COZ
leges, bat the fact is far different and
the disparity is growing annually
greater. It. is time that the Aneri
can people,, the people Of her churche.
| NEAR were waking up to the enor-
nifty of q situation growing ominouS
with astonishing rapidity. am nc
pessimist; | have confidence in the
Christian college and its future, but
am not blind nor can | call my hopes
my facts. 1t is time to indulge ir
a little sober thinking along the line
! Of eternal v~eritieS Of ir
their relation to national life and pros
perity.
Its Special Work For the Church.
But what special nee has the
5 Church for the Christian college.
t Here again let facts speak. They arr
, eloquent and convincing. The Chris
' tan college furnishes eighty per cen
Of the ministers of the country: al
e other educational institutions of tn
higher grade SIX per cent. OF foreign
e missionaries the proportion is create
-eighty-fOur per cent from the Chris
tian college as against seven per cen
from all other colleges. More thar
ninety per cent of the lay workers IL
the various c~OmmunionS are est
mated to come from these same Chris
q tian colleges. A great many yount
men decide on the ministry durin!
their college career in these colleges
In State colleges many candidates 70
o the ministry at entrance have chOSel
some other profession before eradua
o ton. The Y. NJ. G.. A, is doing
I noble work in many instances, but i
cannot generate the spiritual atmos
phere of the Church. and it is the at
mOSphere that makes life or death
n not only physically, but also spiritu
aIIy. The large decrease in candl
dates for the ministry. deplored b
p all. may be accounted for in part, n
n doubt, by the unparalleled growth :
power and numbers of the State col
IegeS, whose students by the yer
5 necessity of their aims are not draw
e toward the gospel ministry as tn
n acme Of professions. In our ow
le State. one Christian college with 35
j, students had in theological semi
II naries during the year 1910 sixty-on
t graduates: the State University wit
n twice as great an enrolment. chi