The Baptist Home Mission Monthly Volume 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...largely to their. uuiversities, and these drew their potential material. from the ranks of the people. It is stated that oneseventh ofthe students in the Scotch universities are the sons of wage-making artisans and peasants. Readers of"The Bonnie Brier Bush" can understand how this may be. England's first care, after establishing her authority in Upper Egypt, was the endowment of a university in the Soudan as a memorial to General Gordon. All the great missionary organizations have established colleges wherever possible as perennial fountains of regenerative influence. It was not folly, but wisdom, that led the friends of the freedmen to found in the South such nuclei of progress, and it will be not wisdom, but folly, to permit them to languish. The administrators of the Peabody legacy promote the great objects of that benefaction judiciously by assisting institutions that send out a constant stream of well educated men and women to be the instructors by teaching and example of all with whom they are associated. All the industrial education so much needed will thrive stronger and faster if the higher education is fostered than if it is neglected. These two means of doing good to the Negro race are not antagonistic, not competitive. They are allies, mutually helpful. The friends of the industrial education will make a grave mistake if they undertake to decry the other. They ought to be as anxious as any that institutions of the intellectual education should be liberally sustained. They are certainly as important to the general progress of the colored race as schools of agriculture and the mechanic arts. The greater includes the less in education as surely as in geometry. When Mr. Goschen was advocating the extension of...