Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE''FLORENCE DAILY TIMES FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 16. 1920 One Million Dollars For Christian Education made covering the entire State among Presbyterians and their friends to adequately endow and equip the follow ing instituthns: . College for Men, Clinton Chicora College, Columbia Thornweli Orphanage, Clinton, Theological Seminary, Columbia 50 per cent. 121-2“ “ To meet the demands of modern education and to fill their place in the work of church and state these institu tions must have more endowment. Mr. C. E. Graham of Greenville, South Carolina, has offered $ 100,000 on condition (hat $900,000 more .be raised. additional investment of only $75.00 per year per student. Are they worth it? * Las! year $42,000 000 was spent in South Carolina for gasoline and the upkeep of automobiles and the State spent only four millions oh her schools. The Presbyterian Church in South Carolina is investing today only $130 per student per year—and this to furnish her quota oi leadership for the Christianization of the world. There has got to be an awakening in Slate and Church if this nation is not to be swamped with the Isms of Europe. Dr. W.' O. 1 hompson, President Ohio State University. Dr. Benjamin I. Wheeler, President University of California The Late Jas. J. Hill, Pioneer Railroad Builder of the Northwest (At the Inauguration of the President of Occicltnal College) “The ck lominational college supported the church may become the best expres sion of religious freedom in teaching that the generation knows. . My conviction is that the church will not only traitor to its own interests, but also recreant to its duty to the state if it shall relinquish its emphasis upon these religious fundamentals. There are elements entering an education which the church owes to society to supply.” • ‘We know at Berkley, just as well as you know that a man who does not live a relig- ous life, and the man who is not religiously trained is not half educated. There is at this time, throughout the whole country, a tide setting strongly towards the develop ment of the small college. We belive, thoss of us who have had experience, that they have opportunity more distinctly than the large institutions of recognizing how truly education is a matter of the life and the spirit.” “The small Christian college is the hope of America. Character is essential to states manship, and these colleges are vital fac tors in the development of sterling charac- He once said to a friend with evident hap piness: “I have sixteen colleges on my list to which I have given large sufns.” GERMANY HAS PROVED WHAT INTELLECTUAL CULTURE MINUS CHRIST CAN DO Europe knows nothing.of the Church College. Fortunately in this country we have the State and Church, each acting and reacting of the other for steady educational and religious progress. MELTON CLARK, Chairman. J. R. SPILLMAN, Treasurer. Headquarters, 1246 Main Street, Columbia, S. 0. M. E. MELVIN, Manager,