The log cabin Democrat., 1922-03-02
HENDRIX PRAISED
 AS VITAL COLLEGE
HAS POWERFUL INFLUENCE
Southern Methodist Journal Accounts History and Deeds-Dr. Mllar
 Lauded.

Hendrix College as an institution which is vital to both the Southern
 Methodist church and Arkansas as {
 state, is fulsomely praised in the cur rent issue of the Christian Education Monthly, the general organ of the church's board of education at Nash vile. The very excellent article is | illustrated by engravings of the main building, Martin Hall and group showing Dr. A. c. Millar, Dr. Stone wall Anderson and Dr. John Hugh Reynolds, the three educators who have served as president of the in stitution since it's foundation.
 To estimate the advertising value of the article is impossible. The Christian Education Monthly is given a broad circulation throughout the church and to the newspaper press. Presenting the college as an institu- tion so worthy of commendation. it should prove of great benefit.
 Before undertaking to chronicle the activities of the Methodist church which resulted in the establishment of the college, the journal tells some thing of the struggle which Arkan- sas as a state had in launching and extending public school education, ending in 1867 when the state for the first time passed law fixing state wide taxation for the support of its free schools. From there on, the art icle deals with Methodism and educa- tion, being in part as follows:
 AS early as 1883 the Methodists be- gan educational activities among the Indians. In 1844 the Arkansas con ference passed a resolution to estab- fish two seminaries of learning, but as sufficient funds were not available the projected institutions did not at that time come into being. Two years later, however, in 1846, the Washington Male and Female Semi nary began in Hampstead county a career which was of short duration.
 The first educational institution under the auspices of the church which carried on it's work for any eX- tended period of time was Soulesbury College, which was located in Bates vile and chartered in 1850. This col lege--it became an institute in 1852 continued it's activity until the dis aster of the Civil war
 In 1854 Crawford Institute, after wards Wallace Institute, located at Van Buren, received it's charter. The Ouachita Conference Female College was established at Camden in 1857, and three years later it was moved to Tulip in Dallas county and it's name became Tulip Female College. The Philadelphia Female College was organized in 1860.
 In all of these transient institutions the church was seeking to fulfill the great function to which John WeslZ believed it to be called, the uniting of knowledge and vital piety.' They did good work and met a great need in that frontier country, yet none of them were successful in the truest sense of the word. Struggling always against poverty, the indiffer ence of the people and the general ad- verse conditions, none of them was able to survive. The war between the states swept away all vestiges of their property and left the state with out single Methodist institution of learning.
 After the Civil war the church again took up the work of Christian education, establishing several schools and maintaining some of them for considerable period. The Lewisburg Seminary, Mineral Springs Academy, Arkansas Female Academy, Washing ton high school and Quitman Insti- tute were some of the schools with which Methodsm had more or less intimate connection. The last named institution, the name of which was first changed to Quitman Male and Female College and later to Quitman College, became a leading institution of learning in the mountain section of Arkansas, and flourished as school of the church for more than thirty years. Galloway College was opened in 1889 and Henderson Brown College began its career in 1890 these two colleges being at the pres ent time among the leading institu- tions of their kind in the south.
 In 1871 Rev. l. l.. Burrow founded at Lewisburg the Lewisburg Semi nary, and in 1874 he was principal of the Clarksville district high school The next year, in 1875, he founded at Altus a private school for higher education under the name of the Cen tral Institute. Mr. Burrow was an influential member of the Arkansas conference, and while his school was the personal property of it's founder, it was nevertheless patronized by the Methodists of the conference and in 1882 was officially recognized.
 In 1884 a committee aDDOinted by