The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-09-07
BISHOP GAMBLERS ADDRESS
Main Feature Of Second Days Session
on Conference Of NJ. Il. Church,
South, nj Lexington.


OF Atlanta, chancellor OF Emory Uni
yersity, was the feature OF the sec
ond days program Of the ninety-sey-
enth annual State conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
which Ia being held at the First Meth
odist church. Bishop Gamblers SUD
ject was "The Need for a Real
Southern University and the Oppor-
tunities of the Southern Methodists to
Establish One"
Education is power, as Is shown
by the German nation today" Bishop
Gambler said. ANY nation that can
carry Austria on one shoulder and
Turkey on the other and hold the
world at bay for three years, cannot
help winning admiration" The pres
ent war Is a war Of science, which ac-
counts for the success so far OF Ter
many the speaker said.
Power, the speaker said, may be
good or bad, helpful or hurtful. THE
bad education of the German univer-
stiles has produced a group OF states
men SO devoid of ethical life that
they treat sacred treaties as scraps
Of paper.
Bishop Gambler showed that II the
world regarded treaties In the same
light that the Germans did civilization
would soon be a dead letter as con-
tracts, marriages, acts OF Congress
and the like would all be of no value.
According to the speaker many
American universities are as ration
alistic as the German institutions
have been and they will produce frui
equally as vile. He told of the i'm
portance of having the faculties o.
universities religious in order thai
the students will not be led to doub
in a personal God and to spread TINS
doubt broadcast in all the higf
schools of the country In which the!
teach.
He said that large percentage o
the heads of large universities dit
not believe in a personal God and tolt
of the evil they were doing to th'
youths of America by their teaching
The speaker told of the advantages
a UNCONVENTIONAL institution had owe
a State university because of the fac
that the faculty of the former coul'
teach the plain truth without havini
to fear the legislatures which give ap
preparations to the State universities
1.-THE South needs at least one reall
great university-one that Is finan
cially strong as Yale, Harvard or Co
lumbia. The great university OF tn
South should be distinctly religion
and to make such an institution som
!, !, great church must form one and con
troll it."
The speaker told of the backward
ness of the South in higher educatlo
and because of this brilliant men ar
leaving every year to take position
- with one of the large Northern co
leges In order to show that the Sout
did not possess real university, Il
said that there was mo knowing ma
= who would care to receive his doctt
OF philosophy degree from any un
versity in the South
The New England States, with lei
than 100000 people, have more b
universities than there are in all IL
Southern States, with population
@ % 100000. The bulk of the endoV
ments which are left annually to ed
cational institutions go to one of II
Northern universities, while the Sou,
receives less than any other sectic
of the country.
The speaker said that he was not
sectional man, but that there wei
many excellencies of the South ar
: every other part of the country whit
r must be preserved. In the South e,
5 lists the purest form or religion-a r.
u ligion which has not been polluted
y German rationalism as has the r
ligion in some parts OF the Unite
States.
e Great Britain's glory, he said,
a due largely to the fact that she b.
|, ieves in making the best type poss
r BILE of the Welsh, Irish, Scotch an
It every other people under her govern
d ment.
i Most of this morning session We
taken up by routine work and repor
i of the various delegates. This afte
O noon and every afternoon during II
e conference Rev. o. E. Goddard,
= Galveston, Tex, will deliver sermo
o Rev. NJ. Goddard's sermon on TT
Most Successful New Testamel
Il Church" was the feature of Wedne
h days program. He took the churc
d at Aantioch as an exemple and shove
d how it had grown from a small inst
n tuition until it became the religion
: center of the world. The Antiot
# church retained this supremacy uni
n it was supplanted by the Church