The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-24
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
INFIDELlTY AGAIN.


decided John and Sallie will do the
best for themselves and the good name
of the family, our old friend B. j. W
C.. editor of the Christian Index, the
Baptist organ in Georgia, lets go witt
other discoveries as to infdelity il
the colleges of the country.
His newest charge is that Professo'
Kent of Yale has text book in SIX
teen o fthe large educational institu
tions, and rather extensive use is
being made of it. Professor Kent has
written numerous books and treatiseF
and among them are five volumes de
voted to the Historical Bible" II
these books B. j. w. has discovered
that the plague of the frogs, the plague
of the flies, the plague of the flocks
are all attributed to natural causes
of various kinds! b. ]. w. holds u
his hands in holy horror and says h
is ready to give up the Bible as thu
insured word of Coo II all these thing
are so. And B. j. w. further say'
f, the college which uses such miide
hooks does not deserve to be called
? Christian nor should it be favored
with the patronage of Baptist fathers
and mothers. And here is his worst
1.-THE Baptist school that uses such
book in the class ROOM if the Baptist
; know it, will starve for the lack o
patronage and money and it ought to-
What are we going 10 do about it
We have seen Professor Kent
books, and, by the way, they are no
"just out" as B. J. W. would lead yor
to believe. If he had been on the look
out when he was at Mercer some ter
years ago pretending to learn soma
thing, he could have found KentF
books there in that splendid Baptis
library. They are there still. We have
seen them, studied them, and admire
them as the work OF man whose
scholarly treatment of both Biblica
and profane history seems excellent
You will remember B. j w. says
there are some sixteen colleges tina
are now using them. Yale University
uses both tie man anC his books ant
is a mighty proud institution that i
has such an instructor Now, we wan
to ask whether all these colleges anr
universities are wrong because B. J
w. says so? We know B. j. w. and
we know Professor Kent's works. The
difference would not bother us if we
had not recently heard a good BAPTISM
say he would prefer to have his chile
remain at home, since it looked like
infidelity is going to get hold of the
colleges. What mistake!
That good neighbor is misled. but
how are we going to make him under
stand? The colleges are not aiming
at the destruction or the Christian Ri
BILE. We want our neighhor to fee
that he and his child are safe and tina
they ought to pursue education just
as far as they can. The south neve',
in all its history neeced educated mel
and women as it does today. In tho
next generation the uneducated vii
stand no showing. In the most insig
nificant vocation a training will be re
quired and our neighbor who stoo(
back because of the fear of infidelit!
will see hi smistake too late.
Educated people have the graves
fear for the college training of the
young men and young women where
the influence of the editor of the In
eek is felt His cry of intidelity vii
destroy the chance of many gooC
boy in school, if it is believed for he
constantly asserts this college ant
that, using this book and that. is no
worthy the name of Christian institu
ton. His good friends ought TO tel
him what great harm he is doinf
Christian education in Georgia.
Before we pass this thing, let US