The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
APPEAL FOR FUNDS FOR SEWANEE MADE BY DR. BARNW NELL
Comparative Figures on De- nominational Schools Are Presented by Rector of
 the Advent


 The Episcopal Church of the Advent gives $50 year to the support of an Episcopal school and the First Meth odist church of Birmingham gives s11,- ooo year for the support of Method ist schools.
 Citing these figures to his congre- gation, Dr. Middleton s. Barnwell, rec tor of the Church of the Advent, made an earnest appeal Sunday morning on behalf of the University of the South at Sewanee the endowment campaign for which will be wound up this week at series of church suppers to be held by various Episcopal congrega- tions
 Your rector Is not a Sewanee man. said pr. Barnwell He has been to Sewanee twice. spending about three hours there each trip. He has no sentiment about Sewanee. nor is he trying to stir up any sentiment in you. It is not subject to grow seIti- mental about. I do not think that Se vance is the finest university in the world It knows too many handicaps | the chief of which IS and has always been lack of adequate equipment. But there is one thing about Sewanee that erdears it to me. and that thing is | this:
 "Sewanee belongs to the Protestant | Episcopal church.
 For that reason I want to see Se- wanee grow greater. I want to see | it's influence extended. I want to see an ever-increasing number of young | men. trained in the history and ways and worship of this church. go forth from her halls to carry the spirit of Il ch.tr iCi sanity back to the communities whence l they came.
 BACKWARD IN EDUCATION 1 Christian education--such as is l given at Sewanee--is~ fine. but some how the term Christian education does not mean all to us that it should. 1 It does not seem to our practical 1 minds to come down close enough to | the level of twentieth century life
 But there is one thing that does come down to this life. and that thing IS | the church. There is not one of us | who does not love the church; not one I who does not hope to see the church grow and prosper. We all desire to see the church made stronger-espe- cially here in the south. where the Methodists and Baptists. and the Prec- 1 byterians. too. outnumber us 10 to. 1 This numerical superiority is distress ing to us. It is often embarrassing Did you every stop to ask yourself the reason for it? There may be several I reasons but the one outstanding req son is this; That every Baptist as- sembly. every Methodist conference every Presbyterian synod, has its own denominations college
 Did you ever stop to think that the Birmingham Methodist conference sup iports the Methodist Brmin gham coliegs l {ha Dc ct aF foh ,fx 1 support Howard college. but severa
 other colleges in this one state? Ina tNe Presbyterians, of this part of Ala
 bama support their college over in An
 nston? Isn't it pathetic-that while ths
 Methodists of a single small district 1T Alabama support so splendidly their Bir. mingham college, the Episcopalians al lover the entire south refuse to suppor' ltheir one church institution at Sewanee'
 .sI called the treasurer of the Firs Methodist church of this city on the tele 1 phone, to ask what the conEregation i. doing along this line. He informs m' that the people of the First church alone are giving around sl1.o .oo0 a year toward
 the support of Methodist institutions ol
 learning. Eleven thousand dollars a yea, Land the Church of the Advent has beer giving $50 a year to Sewanee. If we dt not blush with shame at this state oi affairs it is because we are beyond it.
 First Methodist gifts for Christia, education. SLIGO.
 Church of the Advent fer Christian
 education, $50. 2,
 WHAT IS THE MATTER?" sS Are you proud of that statement? Un
 til this condition is remedied have VI any right to ask What is the matter witl
 the church?'
 "Sewanee is the West Point of the arm.
 of the living God. It is the only sourc
 of supply for the ministry in the south
 Tn this church of ours we have som
 10oo parishes and missions. More thai 200o of them stand empty Sunday af.e
 Sunday for the lack of priest to min
 ister at the altar. Gods army is shor of officers. and you and l would rat,ie
 see Sewanee closed than to give of ou
 money to keep it alive? I cannot be.ey' it. I think we have been short-sighted ] Perhaps I have been to blame for no laying these facts before you. ts II .'sNow in the Methodtpt icommunion to : instance you will not find an empty pull
 pit. There is continually flowing int