The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-01-13
Christian EDUCATION SUFFERS

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Sometimes we hear the sweeping as
ser:ion that nothing in christian edu-
| caticn is worth anything but that Of
fered by some specially ordained one
Of Gods chos n denominations. Some
poor benighted person will rear back
Ii all ,ehemence and declare his
cbjld's education must be under the
supervision of the faith OF his
fathers choica,-must be that or moth
ing. This rather intolerant parent VIII
then proceed to clean up with any
thing that looks like unorthedoX
teaching. 1t is needless to say such
parent is the worst enemy christian
education can have.
People who believe in freedom OF
range and broader outlook for their
children steer clear Of educational
institutions guided by such men. Mer-
Ger University, Emory College, Bessie
Tiff, Wesleyan and others among the
best christian institutions eV5r given
the support OF denomination are
daily suffering from the injurious re-
ligicus bigory that is praot!ced up
one side and down the other Of their
entire educational fields. Religious
jealousies destroy the broader useful
ness of the christian colleges and
drive the students to institutions
where religion is not permitted to
turn the course Of instruction.
The christian schools is the proper
,lace for the boy and the girls, wheth-
or reared in a christian home or not,
but hundreds OF fathers and mothers
every year sever relations with the
persistent bigotry and threadbare
doctrinal schedules that the rival de !
nominations try to maintain in their |
schools and there is a permanent part !
ing of the ways. The further oduca /
ton is secured in the institution |
where these religious side shows are /
! IT out OF the daily duties
1t is our hope that some day the !
protestant schools will be given the !
! berries that are enjoyed at the non
sactaran universities of the country. !;
Ii this is not done. the UNCONVENTIONAL
ollege will pass from its field of use
iuness while it has to come with the
rowing schools that are free
We ought to proceed upon the idea
chat the young man or the young wo- |
man attending college has right to !
ettle some of these things through |
individual research and study We |
must know that they will do SO,
yhether we scrap and fight over it or
rot. The christian atmosphere OF the /;
college community should be very
certain, and the moral surrounding
trictly determined. That's duty any
community owes its young, but as far
IS shaping religious beliefs and pour
ing over doctlinalisms and crecds with T,
q view Of spreading certain church |
custom, that's all lost motion.
Doctrines and churches which fail |
TO fasten themselves to creeds in ac-
cord with the advancement of civil |
cation are not lost in the years of
struggles Christian schools that fail |
30 take into account the onward trend
Of thought, THE continuous change in |
the human method of working out en-
lightenment, will likewise find that
the young man and the young woman
re worshiping at the shrine of anoth-
r institution of learning because
there is a certain freedom with which
a more kindly atmosphere has sur,
round them
Modern education does not wait
lor people to decide whether close
communion should prevail The great
universities which serve the most Ct
the young men and young women of
the country would not stop to hear
word about baptism They are free to
direct thousands of minds into the