text: See y- r., Jjr|. - m - |lg7| *'' '? "" - ui^afcoel. IJ*n Jwonje^coBta Wr?!ii?,iny!p:.>;.? "<' Sydnor & Hundley LEADING IN FURNITURE AND CARPETS RICHMOND :: VIRGINIA Via Bristol And The Norfolk & Western Railway The Short Line Between NEW ORLEANS. BIRMINGHAM, MEMPHIS. CHATTANOOGA. KNOXVILLE ?AND? WASHINGTON. PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK. Solid Train Service Dining Car. All Information cheerfully furnished. W. B. BEVILL, Passenger Traffic Manager. W C. SAUNDERS, General Passenger Agent. The Telephone Always On Guard There is never a moment, day or night, when your Bell Telephone is not a protection. In the busy hours of the day and the silent watch is of the night, the switchboard operator is always ready to answer a call. The telephone is as much a part of the protective system of each community as the public and the public. There's always a feeling of security In the knowledge that close at hand is the means of calling aid quickly when you most need it. More than 70,000 cities and towns are protected day and night by the Bell Telephone system. 7,600,000 Bell telephones are on guard. In thousands of rural communities it is the chief reliance In emergencies and times of danger. When You Telephone Smile. CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (Incorporated) INCORPORATED  B. ADDISON, Vice-President; W. H. McCarthy, Secretary; OSCAR D. PITTS, Treasurer. SOUTHERN RAILWAY PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH. Trains Leave Richmond. N. B.?Following schedule figures published as Information and not guaranteed : 0:10 A. M. Daily. Local for Danville, Charlotte, Durham and Raleigh. 10:30 A. M. Daily Limited for all points South. Drawing Room, Buffet, Sleeping Car to Asheville. 5:00 P. M. Ex. Sunday?Local for Durham, Raleigh and Intermediate stations. 11:46 P. M. Daily Limited for all points South. Pullman ready 8:00 P. M. YORK RITER SERVICE. 4:10 P. M. Daily. Local for West Point. 6:30 P. M. Daily. Steamer Train to West Point, connecting for Baltimore, daily except Sunday. 7:30 A. M. Ex. Sun. Local to West Point. Trains Arrive in Richmond. From the South: 8:50 A. M., 6:40 A. M., 2:00 P. M., 8:06 P. M., daily, and 12:36 P. M., ex. Sun. From West Point: 8:30 A. M., ex. Sunday. Steamer Train; 8:10 A. M., daily, local; 6:30 P. M., ex Sun. H. L. BISHOP, D. P. A., 07 E Main St Phone Madison 272. THE PRESBYTERIAN The Place and The Coll By the Rev. J. Gra; It was no less a man than the Honorable James Bryce who said on his return to England some years ago, after visiting America for the first time in thirty years, that of the two or three significant changes he noticed here one was the progress and enthusiasm shown in the wide field of education. Everywhere he saw the witnesses of a mighty movement. In the universities enrolling their hundreds and their thousands; in the colleges with their increasing endowments and their broadening courses; in the technological schools with their costly and elaborate equipment; in the correspondence schools with a student body scattered through States and Territories; in the night schools with their deeply earnest classes; in the professional schools of every type and grade; in the normal schools, academies, church and private schools and in the great system of public schools for all grades of work from kindergarten through the high schools in all of this he recognized one of the marked features of the life of our land today. It needs no argument to show that he was right. The figures alone are eloquent. More than 21,000,000 scholars are enrolled in the schools of the United States, or more than one in five of our population, and the numbers are increasing. Nearly every State is cutting down the percentage of illiteracy in the resolve that every child within its borders shall have equal chance with every other, so far as education can give that chance, to make the most of gifts and environment and opportunity. But what kind of education shall it be? That which develops mind and body and leaves the whole tract of the moral and the spiritual nature untouched? That which speaks eloquently of the universe, but says nothing about the Creator? That which enforces in admiration of the intricate structure of man, but leaves out of view the Maker? That which exhibits the triumphs of the race, but gives no credit and no thought to the divine Artificer who gave all that made them possible? That which traces the world's march of events, but sees no hand that guides? Just in this is the peril, and the peril cannot be averted? It will increase? If we stand idly by and surrender to the State, unaided or unchecked as the case may be, the education of our youth. Let me hasten to add that the public school system as a system is not to be condemned or opposed. It is needed. It is supported in large part by the taxes of our Christian people. The ultimate goal of its advanced courses particularly is achieving work which the Church needs only rarely to duplicate. And it is enrolling in the ranks of its principals, presidents and teachers many of the most earnest Christian men to be found the country over. What our Christian people need to do? Must do? Is to keep these, their own institutions, free from anti-Christian influence and teachings, and to stimulate them to the achievement of the highest ends. But we need to go further. We need to give encouragement and active support to the schools that stand out before the world as Christian schools and are thus free to teach the truth as we see it, and to exert upon their students the very strongest positive Christian influence. We owe it to these schools to do this, provided the training they give is thorough as well as Christian, for they are our schools, founded in the human and prayers of our own Presbyterian people, cut off by their own choice and ours from State aid, and depending for their maintenance in part and for their growth almost wholly upon our support. But for another and an even larger reason, we need to do this. College gathers in and trains its students at a time when impressions are made that last through life; when ideals are shaped and habits are fixed for all the future; and when, largely, the lifework is chosen into which the lifeforces will be poured. A college that has a student between the years of seventeen and twenty-one determines to a very large degree the influence he is to wield out in the world to which it sends him. We owe it to the student, however, to give him that education in surroundings and under influences the most favorable to his symmetrical development, physical, mental, moral, spiritual; to place him within a college which, while laying emphasis upon knowledge, emphasizes supremely the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy One as understanding. This applies, I need not add, with equal force to colleges for women, and to no small degree to the secondary schools. This leads me to say that the atmosphere of a college yields no small element in the education of the student. Education, as we very well know, is not confined to the classroom. Part of it, and no small part at that, comes from contact with teachers and fellow-students. The Christian college, usually a small college, offers this contact to a degree impossible in the overcrowded State Institutions. The Christian college has a further advantage in the fact that it is a curriculum college. Far-sighted educators are telling us that the pendulum which has swung so far in the way of elective courses is now about to swing back to a prescribed curriculum, and that the college of the future is to be the curriculum college. What a good average college age is competent to map out his course of study? He is unprepared to do so even at graduation. He is better able to do so years after he has entered on the work of life, and is best able to do so only when he has seen actual service in the field of education. The curriculum college does for the student what he cannot do for himself when it offers him a course, based on common sense and approved by long experience, that will discipline and develop his common powers; a course that leaves to the universities the task of selection in wider fields. To put this selection first is to turn the alphabet upside down. Training must come first. The Christian College has a distinct advantage, further, in its opportunity for individual training. It knew some years ago a distinguished educator of another Church who built the school rooms of his his academies to hold only twenty-five students each. He was wise beyond many of his generation. Princeton University in its preceptorial system has blazed a way that many will be certain to follow: preceptors in personal charge of only so many students as they can really train. The teaching that counts through college acre must be of this character. This is as possible in a small Christian college as it is impossible in the thronging classrooms of the average large university. Primarily, these are advantages to the student. Only less directly do they turn out to be advantages to the Church, for it is to students trained in Christian colleges that we must look for not a little of the leadership in important spheres of the Church's life. Of one sphere particularly is this true. The Christian college is the Church's recruiting ground for its ministry. It is to the Christian colleges that the Church must look for its supply of ministers. It has been shown that the Christian colleges supply 80 percent of the students in our theological seminaries. Let it be granted that students expecting to enter the ministry prefer the Christian college to any one of the State institutions, yet the fact remains that a large proportion of students decide upon the ministry as their calling after they enter college. If our Church wishes, as it must, and does wish, to close up with other faithful men the ranks which infirmity and death are thinning, and recruit still others for the whitening fields at home and abroad, then it is the part of wisdom to provide adequate and even generous support to the colleges out of which must come the larger numbers of her ministers of the future. There is another need no less imperative that these Christian colleges are supplying the need of ministers that are thoroughly trained, well furnished for their work. It is indeed the glory of the gospel that it can win its way in spite of hindrances that would block the way of everything else. It is its glory, likewise, that the weakest, in God's strength, may become the mightiest. There is need in the kingdom for all kinds of workers; a place for every consecrated man. But the same apostle who assures us of this, himself a trained man, urges Timothy to "show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." The Presbyterian Church has always, and rightly, insisted upon the best training possible for her ministers. That kind of training has never been needed more keenly than it is needed now. The general levels of education are being raised year by year; and the minister, a teacher and leader, must let no man despise his training for this high work. He cannot and he need not be a specialist in a dozen departments of human thought. He need not even measure lances with any one genius in his congregation. But he may and should he so thoroughly trained that in his own work he is master, tracing out great principles for the guidance of his people and presenting them with such unquestioned force that all, of whatsoever type, may see and glorify the grace that hath appeared to man. A consecrated man is ever a mighty force for God. A consecrated man may be a mightier. This training in a liberal education must be secured not in the theological seminary, which offers a special course, presumably based on it, but in a college. For 80 percent of our candidates for the ministry, it must be secured in the Christian college, where influences are guided to the strengthening of earnest purpose and noble aspirations. The Christian colleges, to which the Church looks for this type of academic training of her ministers, must be in all essentials equipped to give it; they must be prepared to offer, not for special and advanced work (which falls to the universities), but for broad and solid furnishing in which they can surpass all others), every facility offered in the very best of the State. Schools. How are they to do this? In one. 