. The history of Methodism. le of Baltimore, wrote Asbury after thissecond adverse stroke, and will keep them poor in order tokeep them pure. Cokesbury College never rose from its ruins, and it wasman) years before the Methodists attempted to found an-other seat of learning upon so ambitious a scale. The sacri-fices which bishop, preachers, and people had made for itwere extraordinary, and it doubtless seemed to many, as it A Monument to High Ideals 393 did to Asbury in the first bitterness of defeat, that the Lordhad not called this people to plant colleges. Other schools and academies which
. The history of Methodism. le of Baltimore, wrote Asbury after thissecond adverse stroke, and will keep them poor in order tokeep them pure. Cokesbury College never rose from its ruins, and it wasman) years before the Methodists attempted to found an-other seat of learning upon so ambitious a scale. The sacri-fices which bishop, preachers, and people had made for itwere extraordinary, and it doubtless seemed to many, as it A Monument to High Ideals 393 did to Asbury in the first bitterness of defeat, that the Lordhad not called this people to plant colleges. Other schools and academies which began about this timeunder Methodist auspices—Ebenezer Academy, in Bruns-wick County, Va., Bethel Academy, in Kentucky, and Cokes-bury School, on the Yad-kin, in Surry County,X. C.—are mentioned inthe early records, but thecost of maintaining themand the indifference ofthe people to the benefitsof education limited theirsitccess. The records of Cokes-bury College at Abingdonperished in the flames,and no catalogue of its. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. DRAWN BY P E FL THE COKESBURY in the Womans College, Baltimore, Md. students is known. Some men who studied there took hisfh rank in after life, among them the Hon. Samuel White, a senator of the United States; Asbury Dickins, secretary of the United States Senate, and that powerful Methodist preacher, Rev. Valentine Cook. It is safe to say that, had its property been spared, the col-lege would have exerted a marked influence upon the condi-tion of the denomination and of the Middle States. The grass-grown ruin at Abingdon is a monument to thehigh ideals and painful sacrifices of the fathers. Xo one canview the site without a pang of sympathy for the hearts thatached over its failure. Yet out of that sorrowful experience 394 American Methodism has come the rich accomplishment of our own time, whenAmerican Methodism rejoices in its many colleges and is oneof the most powerful forces for education in the nation. Theold bell rescue
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