The Message of the College to the Church; A Course of Sunday Evening Addresses in Lent, 1901, Delivered in the Old South Church, Boston (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1901 Excerpt: ... V THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE COLLEGE AND THE CHURCH PRESIDENT GEORGE HARRIS, LL. D. THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE COLLEGE AND THE CHURCH The Church and the college were in this country from the beginning. A few years passed, indeed, before the first college was actually established, but the ministers who came over from England were university men, as were some of the laymen. In England these institutions had long stood side by side, so that the streams of culture and religion were flowing from the time our English ancestors landed at Plymouth. The early colleges of New England, and also the later ones, were founded with a religious purpose which found expression in their charters and seals. The principal object of some of them was the education of ministers, although none were confined to that. The Church founded colleges to promote broad and liberal education. The colleges always had, however, an independent existence and were not under the control of the Church, although a certain proportion of the trustees of some colleges must be clergymen. Since Church and college are distinct as institutions, the relations existing between them can be measured and their influence upon each other estimated, as comparison can be made between Church and State, or between State and family. Although the very same person may be in both institutions, yet each stands for something characteristic, and each contributes something to the other. If the relation of the college to the State were to be considered, little would be said about religion, for the relations are not exclusively nor predominantly religious. When one considers the mutual dependence of the college and the Church, it is from the religious point of view, for the Church is exclusively a religious society. Our in...