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TOLEDO LAYMAN BECOMES
PRES. BAPTIST CONVENTION
SUCCEEDING REV. HERGE1

President-E II. Rhoades of To
ledo.
Vice Pres.-C. +. chamberlin Of
Dayton.
Rec. secy--Rev r. A Reed of
Springfield.
Treasurer-Prof. R. s. colwell Of
Granville.
THE CHURCH AND EDUCATION
The subject that Rev. David Boving-
ton Of Rochester, N. Y, handled In his
address Tuesday evening at the Ohio
Baptist convention at the First Bap-
tist church In this city was that of the
relation Of the church to Christian edu.
cation.
AS asserted by Rev. Bovington, every
age has its own characteristic and
education is the predominant charac-
teristic of the modern age. This grant
ed, what are the composite parts OF
modern education? They constitute
the development of three separate, but
dependent, units: the body, the mind
and the spirit, or personality.
The great mistake Of the modern
instructor is that of not considering
the responsibility placed upon his
shoulders, that is, the fact that he has
1t in his power to make respectable,
law abiding, God fearing man or wo-
man, or, the direct opposite, an i'm
moral, indiscreet skeptic. This great
truth has been realized by many Of the
ministers of the gospel and as result,
institutions have been established to
prevent the continuance of this great
allpowerful error.
In this great day 1t is the tendency
Of the instructor to develop the two
lesser parts of modern education and
neglect the greatest, the personality
which is to say the moral sense in the
child. If this great truth were realized
by the instructor, that the basis Of
education Is religious training, the
present state OF AFFAIRS would not
thrust themselves upon us. As IL
stands, modern education is tending
to overthrow the state itself, as the
United States of America was found
ed by God fearing men upon straight
puritan principles and not upon indus
trialism which is foremost in the mo-
dern educators mind.
After considering the sad condition
of the state, the church must be con-
sidered as the underlying foundation
of the state. For, during the middle
ages, when there was no government
in evidence, the holy monks kept the
feeble spark of learning alive under
the smOuldering remains of an an
Client learning, and, upon the subsid-
ence of the wars, famed the feeble
spark gradually into a flaming torch
to guide men to perfect understand
ing OF the great truth that the moral
sense Of the people as great class
must be developed to the greatest en-.
tent possible. Therefore, without the
development of the personality the
church cannot survive as its vitality
depends largely upon the support of
noble men and godly women.
In this great age the church ia not
considered the seat Of learning as of
old. rather 1t Is considered stimulat-
ing councillor that Is to be referred to
IL need be.
In the old days the father, upon aris-
ing in the morning, read long passag-
es OF the Bible and in the evening Of
fered mp lengthy prayer asking the
blessing OF the Father In heaven with
sincerity that imbued in the child
great respect for the church as well
as developed the personality of the
child, bringing the influence of the
church into the meager education ac-
quired In the schools Of that century.
Therefore. it is the duty of all Chris
tians to prevent the thoughtless neg
lect which modern education is suffer.
ing that there may be produced more
symmetrically educated men and wo-
men to uphold the church and to fur
ther the object of this age-modern
education.
OFFICERS ELECTED
The Ohio Baptist Education society
elected its officers for the ensuing
year Tuesday evening They are:
President-Dr. Clark w. Chamber.
lain.
Vice President-Rev, G. H. Stun,
Ph.D.
Rec. Secy.-H. R. Hundley, SGD.
Cor. Sec.-Treas. Bunyan Spencer.
TREAsuRER'S REPORT
In connection with the business of
the Ohio Baptist Education society,
DR.. Bunyan Spencer of Granville,
treasurer, submitted his annual re-
port. In the current fund, there was
total receipt of $6,69SSs, of which
all but $1.69O6O was spent, this lat
ter standing as n cash halanca In