Evening star., 1920-11-28
IEXPLAIlS BAPTIST ATTITUDE
TOWARD G. w. UNIVERSITY
E. Hilton Jackson Declares That President
Collier Unwittingly Misstates Denomii-
nations Relationship to Education.

Baptist auspices, and that if priced
and patronfzed as It should be, it
would rebound to the usefulness of
the Baptists to an untold degree
Reference In Reports.
TN like manner. from the founda-
ton of the Columbia Association of
Baptist Churches in 1877 down to
1904, when the present. foundation
assumed control under the name of
George Washington University. the
university has been uniformly re-
ferred to in reports to said associa-
ton. many Of them made by the
presidents and other officials Of Co
lumbian College. as a Baptist educa-
tional institution, and has been SO re-
garded and discussed in all it's delib-
erations. In this connection it may
not be without interest to recall that
on November II, 1904, Mr.. j. j. Dar-
lington, in a report to the Columbia
Baptist Association, from the COM
mittee on education. of which he was
chairman. after reciting the history
of the relations of this institution to
the denomination from it's foundation.
established the proposition that the
same was Baptist institution and
quoted with approval from a report
of former official Of the university
10 the ASSOCIATION in 1902, the fol-
The first born of the union of
missions and education among the
Baptists of America was an institu-
t1on in which the Baptists of the Dis
trlct may feel peculiar ownership
the Columbian University. AS is well
known, the result of. the labors of
Luther Rice in stimulating the mis-
sfonary zeal of the denomination was
the foundation, in 1919, of the Colum-
blan College. No American. institu-
ton can boast of a prouder denomina-
TEk @~l
OF the sacrifices Of our forefathers
she became at once the center of the
new and controlling sentiments that
led to the foundation of noble
coterie Of Baptist schools, both north
and south. Of Hamilton, and Colby.
Theological Institution in the same
decade, and in succeeding years, of
Richmond and Wake Forest, and
Mercer and Baylor and Furman'
Trustee Of University.
1T may also be added that Mr..
Darlington was a trustee of the uni
versity at the time of it's alienation
from Baptist control in the year 1904
and rather than become party to
board of trustees and at the same
time characterized the actions as
illegal and unnecessary from the Bap-
tist standpoint.
me president of George Washing
ton University refers to the fact that
BY an amendment to the charter of
Columbian University several decades
prior to 1904 a large proportion of
its trustees were Baptists; that it's
presidents were members of that
church and the institution was
properly considered as belonging to
that determination. This is a state
ment of vast significance, coming
from the head of the present founda-
fion Of George Washington Uni
versity. and loses none OF it's gravity
by reason of the fact that the tangible
assets Of the university, to say moth
ing of its franchises and good will
at that time, amounted in round num-
bers to s1,000,0O0. If this institu-
tion for several decades was proper
~ nsidered as belonging to the
Baptist denomination according to
the exact language Of President Col
lier. at time when the tangible as
sets of the university amounted to
$l.0OO.000. then certainly 1t would not
be Inappropriate at this time for the
aufhorized representatives of the Bap-
tlst denomination to- make inquiry
into the circumstances Of the aliena-
ton OF this institution from Bautist
control and ownership in 1891"