The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-09-08
DR.. GILLESPIE SPEAKS ON PRES
BYTERIAN CAMPAIGN
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education. Here, too, the student |
finds that intimate association with |
his instructors, which is impossible |
in the great universities. The es-
sence of a great school is not in |
marble and mortar and architect |
ure; nor yet in the multitude of the !
matriculants. The traditions of ia /
nous schools concern men, who have
stamped their personalities, who
have given their generous natures,
who have colored the intellectual
atmosphere about them. And men
who are big and strong enough to
do that are as likely to be found in
the modest as in the impressive en-
vironment."
DR.. Gillispie made the astounding
statement that all the denomina-
tional colleges in the South tOgeth-
er, have less endowment than any
one of the six colleges for women
In Massachusetts,. "Why is it,"
asked DR.. Gillispie, that schools
and colleges are any more the bust
ness of the church in Kentucky than
continuing houses and factories?
Obviously because the church is in
the. teaching business Because it
claims not only the right to teach,
but claims the subordination of all
other teaching to it's teaching. Be-
cause. it claims for itself the most
important branch of knowledge
what is God, and what duty does
God require of man? A teacher it.
self, teacher which claims subordi-
nation of all other knowledge to it's
knowledge, it cannot remain indiff-
erent to the rest of the educational
process. If the church will cease
appealing to the intellect of man
and appeal only to his esthetic SEN
sibilities, to his initiative instinct,
to his love of mystery, to his emo
lions it may perhaps safely ignore
the colleges and schools"
There is small comfort i'm the
fact that our Federal taxes average
$4,000 year per family; that
$500 of it is on account of past
wars, interest on war debts, pen
sions, vocational and health rehabil-
itation for soldiers and sailors; that
$4,000 goes direct to Expenditures on
the army and navy and that only
$1,000 of it goes for Government
functions, salaries and public works.
and that only $2.7O of it is spent on
education, health and agriculture.
The navy costs us more year by year
than all of our churches of every
name, sect and sort, in this past
year by some fifty million dollars.
The army costs us more than all our
colleges, technical schools, UNIVERSE
ties, church and State by two hun
dred million dollars. A single first
class battleship costs more than the
teachers training schools through
out the whole United States from
ten to fifteen million more. So far
In the worlds history culture and
the curse of war have been one.
The multitudes must begin to or
ganlze and face the facts in an in
telligent. way. Our colleges must
lead the way, and, above all our
churches collapse. It costs some
thing to have colleges, but if costs
Infinitely more not to have them.
"Of the sixty colleges in the
United States having an endowment
of a million or more, only nine are
in the South, and one of these is for
negroes, and three are denomina-
tlonal colleges. The Presbyterians
have NONE.
If we want adequate leadership
In the church, we must find it in
the pulpit. If we want power in
the church we must find it in the
pulpit. If we want power in the
church we must find it in the pew.
Both of these are developed in the
church schools and college. In Ken
lucky there are one hundred and fif-
LYNNE Southern PRESBYTERIAN
churches to be supplied with minis
tiers. At the last report from the
Synod U. S. only seventeen candi-
dates for admission were to be
found in college and seminary. This
means that Kentucky must draw
upon the already vitiated fore
es of sister Synods, We should not
expect that we can always secure
our ministers from other Synods. A
church which does not produce it's
own leadership is declining
church. Over ninety per cent of the
candidates for the ministry comes
from Christian college, The same
influences which have led so large
a proportion of the students of
Christian schools to enter the min
istry, are influencing many like
them into active church service in
other fields as well as Christian
principled men into other walks of
life. The gifts for all Pres
byterian churchs in the South
in 1870 was $1O.62 per member, in
1917 it was S17.S5, while the per
capita wealth in 1870 was 600
as against s2,223.OO in 1918. This
means that while individual
wealth had increased one hundred