Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1909 — NO ALTAR WITH ORIENTAL RUG [ARTICLE]

NO ALTAR WITH ORIENTAL RUG

lad Grace Generally Unsaid Over Lobster and Wine. PRESBYTERIAN EPIGRAMS Remarks by Dr. Joseph W. Cochran, of Church’s Board of Education Greatly Interest General Assembly. Declares Lack of Recruits For Min. Istry Is Due to Attendance of Young Men at Universities Speaker Characterizes as “Godless.” Denver, May 25. Remarks that were uttered by Dr. Joseph W. Cochran, secretary of the Presbyterian board of education, caused great interest In the Presbyterian general assembly. They were: ‘ Grace is. not usually said over champagne and lobster a la Newburg. Family altars are not raised over Persian rugs. Students for the ministry do not as a rule get their early training by running steam yachts. Dr. Cochran spoke on the report which deplored the lack of recruits fop the ministry. He asked: “Does the young man go for his education to a Christian school? a Presbyterian school? No. He goes to a Godless state university and when he returns to his home town he puts religion at low ebb. * “The need In this board of education Is not for more (honey, but for men. Now we cannot Christianize these state universities, but we can put a shepherd in charge and in this way keep these boys in the flock, although they are being educated at Godless schools.” Lack of funds was told of by ths American Tract society and the board of freedmen in their annual reports. Dr. Judson Swift, seeretary of the tract society, said the society could do five times as much work with twice as much money as it received now. “Even the board of foreign missions has come to us," he said. ‘The board wants us to print an arithmetic for the people of Uganda. I suppose the people of Uganda want to compute ths number of Hons, ttgers and giraffes slain by our beloved former Drest* dent"