Show I TilE TIIE TEACHERS COLLEGE The praiseworthy zeal ot of the faculty and alumnI or of the Brigham Young University Provo Prove In securing contrI contrIbutions contributions to the tho now new buildIng Is ono one moro more sIgn ot of a growth that has been beon noticed In many forms during recent years At the present ent pace the lapse of a afew tow few decades may brIng with It a aChurch aChurch Church membership of 01 perhaps n a rail mil million lion souls In the tho Western states Such Sucha a congregation of the tho StIn Saints Is will require suitable avenues ot of edu for the tho younger members This growth ot of the Church In the tho numbers ot of Its people and the tho In IncreasIng Increasing creasIng prosperity of this rapidly In IncreasIng increasing creasIng membership seems to ron ren render thur der necessary that ample provision bo be mode made for tor the corresponding Intel Intellectual growth and educational Ideals or of the tho people In tho past no religious tion hM boa long flourIshed wIthout the tho ot of one or more seats ot of higher learnIng Unless thIs In Ie done the tho popular Ideals lose some of their freshness and beauty established doctrines deteriorate In certainty and concIseness of statement or be become como rigId and so ns as to deny nd ad admission mission and IncorporatIon Into It of the tho new round found truths ot of science and history Mormonism on the thO other othor hand Is never stationary The Tho late President Snow aptly It to a constantly movIng being It does not hIbernate It La Is spIrItual or mental evolution It Is human as well os as material growth and though all can witness somethIng o of this growth and movement yet the real roal n need od to the tho Church of a university for tor the tho begin beginning beginning ning of whIch the tho faculty or of the at Provo are aro now nov addressIng the tho people ma not be apparent to who havo not considered the growth of the tho Church on its Intel intellectual sIde wo V coil call attention to the tho tact fact that certaIn of the tho Church havu been at first conducted In a SOnio somo what experimental manner Later they became more molo 10 logically arranged To conservo whatever In iii the tho tal stage of the tho various activities has been found worth whilo and truly ox ex cOllect iii practice there should bo be some somo established agency for collat irig hiI and teachIng the tho so 80 gained Only thus can great waste of effort b by the costly duplication ot of ments be avoided Thoro Thero Is constantly accumulating In Inthe inthe the world at It largo large aLso aLoo a vast vait fund of at now knowledge Some ot of It may havo Important me meaning to the Lot Lat Lottor tor day work Some of It tested by the tho standards of the I be more mora or 1081 1051 mingled with error or at least with also falso points ot of view It would be the duty or of a Church uni whilo the uc c cumulated riches or of the worlds store of at knowledge to preserve Intact the tho acknowledged point ot of view of the Church Itself so QI as to prevent un an nece necessary or or casual conflicts between revealed and dIscovered truth It If an any Irreconcilable con conflict should arIse then In accordance with tho de to ret Let God be trite truc but a 1 liar the would so declare the tact fact and the tho people would knoW that In such ease case the tho merely human knowledge is yet In incomplete complete and fUller k knowledge wOUld be awaited to remove the tho seeming contradictIon A more obvious need or of such a 11 school is seen Been at In the demand the stake schools make for tor teachers who are arc thoroughly conversant with willi the tho doctrine and practice ot of the tho Church Not only so 90 but tho whole agency or of the Church consists in teachIng MIssIons Sunday schools and many other organised move movements meets ments sro are simply agencIes for teach teaching leg ing the tho truth to the people The Saints are simp simply not alono by precept ot of course but teachers nevertheless Benco thIs tune tunc tion ot of the Church requIres strong emphasIs und and the tho Teachers College corresponds to thIs prImary lion of the people who have accepted the as well as the tho blessings ot of the Gospel of light and peace On these accounts and others that readily suggest themselves we trust that the response to thIs can call will bo be boI generous and adequate |