The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-11-26

Head-countrys Most important
Schools Represented at Ceremonies.
"Wittenberg college is destined to
become the leading college OF the
Lutheran Church in America" said
DR.. r. E. Tulloss, graduate of Wit
tsnberg, 1906, and Harvard, 1918, in
his inaugural address as the seventh
president of Wittenberg college,
Springfield, Ohio
The inaugural exercises were at
tended by representatives of leading
schools in America. Among the
schools represented were Harvard,
Columbia, and Johns Hopkins.
DR.. A. z. Rem of Louisville, pres
ident OF the board of trustees Of Wit
tenberg college, delivered the charge
to the new president, obligating him
ito be loyal to the church and to
Christ in the execution of his duties"
In his response the new president
stated:
Il am here 20 make my promise
To the task before me | here and to-
day dedicate myself. l promise 10y
atty. | promise single mindeiness.
| promise willing and unstinted serv-
ice. Neither for myself nor for any
OF US could ask better thing than
that We might be worthy OF being
servants for Jesus Christ's sake
Such a servant l want to be, in the
cause Of Christian education"
In the inaugural address DR.. Tulloss
dwelt on the theme THE Place Of
the Small College in American Edu-
cation"
There is no competition between
the great state and private UNIVERSE
ties and the small Christian colleges.
More and more each is growing
into its specific field Some things
the great universities can do which
the small colleges can never hope to
do. On the other hand there is a
field for the small college which can
never be filled by the great public or
private university.
Special Field of Service.
I'm the field of education the small
school carries on a work entirely its
own. II offers and provides educa-
ton In smaller groups where personal
contact with the instructor is the very
heart Of the educational plan.
University presidents have come
to realize that with growing numbers
At the universities, personal contact
10 practically lost Some have even
begun to call our great universities
not educational institutions SO much
as factories OF learning. That situation
can never obtain In the small Chris
ton college. In addition the DOM
inant ideas of the great state univer-
stiles have become practical and
often materialistic. Cultural eduea-
tion has been swept more and more
into the background. 1t is the field
OF the small Christian college to
maintain the cultural ideals of edu-
vocation.
The field of service of the small
Christian college for the church is
too well known and too obvious to
necessitate lengthy statement. The
small Christian college is the very
life of the church
Task Of Small Christian College.
ITO provide leadership in state ana
national affairs is another task which
the small Christian college can and
must continue TO perform. Many of
Americas greatest leaders in the past
have come from the small Christian
colleges. Without Harvard and Yale,
at. that time strongly Christian
schools, the Revolutionary war would
not have been possible. Without the
small Christian colleges of the mid
die west, the middle west would not
have been held in the Union during
the Civil war.
THE idealism which the Christian
college provides today is no mere
idealism OF phrase. II is the ideal.
ism OF faith in Christ. 1t is founded
upon a rock-the rock of the plan
and power OF Jesus. Paul says, i
am not ashamed of the gospel OF
Christ; it is the power of God unto
salvation The salvation Of men and
the salvation of the world What
phrases The Gospel of Christ.
The power Of God 1t is gentle. II
is slow. 1t is quiet. 1t moves hid
denly, almost stealthily. It brings on
no violent revolutions. causes NO
sudden upheavals 1t produces nc
catastrophe changes. But 1T trans
forms. 1t makes new men. II will
make a new world 1t is the power
OF God unto salvation.
ITO this cause the small Christian
college is dedicated. For serving this
cause the Christian college is pre-
Hared and qualified For carrying To
the world this message. the Christian
college, must be preserved.
Here, then, is our mission. Than
such a mission. there is none nobier
Than such a message 10 the world
there is none greater-none more Trg
entity needed.
TO the serving Of that cause lie,
us as Christian men here anew today
dedicate our hearts. our Wills. cur
lives.
In serving il. We are helping tc
rescue the world. We are working
nth God for TO salvation W. On