Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-27
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THE CHuRCH AND THE COLLEGE

When We do not thlnk carefully we.
are in the habit of attempting to
measure all values in dollars and
cents. That is a most unsafe habit.
But sometimes we find even money
values where we thought there were
none.
In the minds Of many people church
has no money value. Cash put into ii
is so much tied UP capital. 1t pays
no dividends to it's members, but on
the contrary it constantly calls for
financial support. A church takes
money out Of the pockets of its
friends and gives them back only
what may be termed sentimental
values. This is the way most of us
look at the church when we consider
it from an economic standpoint.
Half the people of America do not
go to church; and probably less than
one-third of the adult population con-
tribute materially to the support OF
the church. The rest have not felt
the responsibility of helping keep up
an institution with which they are not
personally affiliated Many in the
church see little money value TO
themselves in it or in it's activities,
and therefore they pay little.
But there is a campaign now on
foot in various religious denomina-
lions for the extension of church in
fluence, and this campaign is calling
the worlds attention to the church
as a real business enterprise.
Church men who hitherto have
looked upon the church as not much
more than an ecclesiastical mendi-
cant, or at best as a cheap conven-
fence, are coming to increase their
support of it as an indispensable in
stitution.
This campaign has called for some
kind of activity from every member;
and this activity has had the effect
of opening the members eyes to the
substantial value of the religious in
stitutions to which they belong.
BY reason of these campaigns the
church is touching more men, and is
touching them more days of the
week
A town without church does not
look good to the American people.
Real estate dealers, wise in the things
of this world, always favor the build
ing of church IN any churehless
community. Like a good school a
good church always attracts a good
class Of settlers.
Another scope of church work that
is disappearing is the religious school,
Not many years ago in every section
of the country there were colleges
supported by certain denominations.
The president of the school was sus-
ally a prominent minister of the dom
inant denomination, and the profess
sors were largely of that church,
many of them preachers.
But federal and state schools have
largely crowded these religious schools
to the wall. The states pay larger
salaries than the religious schools
SOulu pay anu hO lultloH Is CHdTSeu
against the student. The state
schools are largely practical and TECH
nical. The professors are specialists
But 1t was this sort of education
an absolutely essential education when
properly handled-that made of Ger
many mighty materialistic machine.
1t was Germanys educational ma
chine that plunged the world into the
mightiest war mankind has ever
known.
We must have state schools, but
we must not allow the religious
d schools to be killed off. They furnish
an absolutely necessary spiritual ele-
ment that cannot be had elsewhere
They make for the highest morality;
they recognize Gods dominance in the
universe; they subdue the beast in
mankind; they preserve us from losing
sight of everything that is best In
life; they teach us that there is more
to existence than mere, efficiency
The maintenance of such colleges is
part of the work of the churches. Al
least it is part of the work of religious
people who have vision enough to
see that religious colleges must be
endowed or they must perish. and
with them must perish religion in
education. rt
But let it be considered that every
college, has large monetary value
Property neara college is always high
priced,
We must not lose sight of the fact
however. that sentimental values arr
real values. Threeafourths Of the
money paid out in trade In Americs