. Proceedings and addresses of the Texas Methodist Educational Convention ... 1906. [electronic resource] . ve Coronal Institute and Chappell Hill FemaleCollege, but few of the Conference schools are more thantwenty-five years old. McKenzie, Eutersville, Soule andWesleyan have passed away, but from their ashes has sprungthe young Southwestern, largely developed during the lasttwenty-five years, already heroic with sacrifice and big withthe possibilities of service. Shall it, too, die with the menwho made it? When Hyer, Cody, Allen, and Young shallfollow Mood and Sanders, worn out with the stru
. Proceedings and addresses of the Texas Methodist Educational Convention ... 1906. [electronic resource] . ve Coronal Institute and Chappell Hill FemaleCollege, but few of the Conference schools are more thantwenty-five years old. McKenzie, Eutersville, Soule andWesleyan have passed away, but from their ashes has sprungthe young Southwestern, largely developed during the lasttwenty-five years, already heroic with sacrifice and big withthe possibilities of service. Shall it, too, die with the menwho made it? When Hyer, Cody, Allen, and Young shallfollow Mood and Sanders, worn out with the struggle andthat hope deferred which maketh the heart sick, will theChurch expect to find others of like character to assume theheavy responsibilities while she, still lagging, refuses to doher duty? Or will she awake and aid in bringing about theday when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earthas the waters cover the sea by giving to Texas a great insti-tution whose mission shall be to sanctify all knowledge, allculture, all service; and for this, and this, and this, let us de-voutly work and 41 Recent Developments as Indicating the Trend of Educational Thought in Religion REV. C. E. DOWMAN, D. D. At the distance of Georgia from Texas the writer couldonly infer to what particular Kecent Developments thatphrase in the topic assigned me referred. During the pastfew years there has been an unusual discussion of educationalquestions. Many thoughtful and observing people have felta degree of dissatisfaction with existing conditions. Thetendency toward the secularization of education which wasso strong during the latter half of last century, and whichresulted in the effort to exclude the Bible and formal re-ligious instruction from the public schools, and which en-couraged the founding and rapid growth of State and othernon-Christian institutions of higher learning, has met a de-cided current in the other direction. The pendulum of pub-lic opinion having reached the highes
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