Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-03
WANTS EDUCATORS
NC0LLEGE PULP|TS
Student Pastor Scores e.
feet of "Rabid Funda-
mentaIiSt" on Youth.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, February g.
The local church in the college town
has much to do with the formation
or the ideals of college students. and
IN this church the rahid fundamental
ist pastor has no place. DR.. o. D.
GODDARD of Conway. Ark. student
pastor for Hendrix College, assert
ed here today at the annual session
or the Education Association of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Asserting that the average fresh
man comes to college with vague
and hay ideals. but with more
cocksureness and less docility than
the college student Of 4 generation
ago" DR.. Goddard said that a deli
cate problem faced the pastor in Il
college town. This is especially true,
he said if the pastors the student
has known We're ignoran. of the laws
of biology and unaware of the sci
entifc slant on all studies of today
and adverse to the historic method
of Bible study, and besides all this,
set themselves UP as CenSorS OF the
faith of all furwardl looking people
and consigned all to the inferno or
hcrctics who did not interpret the
Bible as their grandmothcrS did. y
adding that if he did not already have
would have.
Needs Right Pastor.
Under proper conditions the church
can correct such ideals, Dr.. Goddard
said The college church must have
the right kind of a pastor, he con
tinued NO college community should
be afflicted with rabid Fundamental,
list for a pastor. \ pastor with Il closed
mind and a fanatiCal heart in col
lege church would he an anachronism,
nuiSa nee. u nUnentitN, he pltS
ultra for nonsense. a bishop Who
would send such a pastor to college
community should he brought before
the lunaCy board.
IA pastor who Is It scholar. a
Christian, a gentleman. one who IN
telleCtualIy is not one whit behind the
professors, whose brain is constantly
fortified with new thought and whose
heart is constantly fired with new
experiences, a man who practices APP
piled Christianity. such Il pastor can
reconstruct the ideals of this collegiau
concerning the ministry.
The local church i'll the college
community should be Il model church.
It should demonstrate the most up-to-
date methods in all of its departments.
Effete and antiquated methods in this
church are unpardOnable.'
DR. j. Marvin Culbreth, secretary Of
religious education board. told delegates
that before we can have a competent
leadership on an adequate scale for
the changing affairs of the world we
shall have to multiply greatly "A new
type of leadership trainers and alter
radically the method of training"
The present day student, he de-
clared. is in revolt against the type
of professor who has been described
a. regarding a student as chest or
strong box in which to store neat
little cartons of information"
The most rea sonahle hope of a
better leadership depends upon the
success of this revolt" DR.. Culbreth
said. Instead of seeking to sup
press il, educators should &C
knowledge the ground Of fact upon
which this revolt rests and align
themselves with every force which
will assist in liberation from an I'm
Welding system"