Show A CHRISTIAN university WE are in receipt of some circulars dara fare and other papers a 11 lurn ilin plin for the fhe establishment of a chri fan college at san francisco franeisco it is not designed to make it a s sectarian ec tarlan sebo school oA bau buu bat by a union of the tho various denomination denominations ito to found an educational enterprise from which religion shall not bo be excluded as unfortunately it ib is from the state academies and universities the projector of the plan dr K R ii H mcdonald isi cDonald offers one hundred thousand dollars in gold coin if thousand dollars moie is subscribed for the purpose it is not designed to antagonize I 1 tag ing onize the educational establishments of f the state but recognizes the the spiritual and moral as well as the mere intellectual faculties require cultivation and direction the principle involved in this project is good and the object in view is commendable it is admitted by a great number of thinking mon and women that the we tendency of the common of the country is to skepticism god is thrust out of the schools and the influence prevailing therein is rather antagonistic than favorable to the christian faith in schools from which the bible is excluded the me study of mythology and tile the religions 11 of ancient and ad modern modem paganism is admitted the youthful mind is most of the time under an influence that seir spir and in not a few instances despises everything not demonstrable by mathematical the consequences are seen in the twe growth of crime reck reek lessne and infidelity and the believing portion pf af the country will one day wake up to thel the fact that the school system which is the boast of the whole nation is faulty in a fundamental da mental and essential part and that tait it is training trai trao ning aing up a godless race in whom whon faith is dormant and mor aliby is but hut a matter of policy the liberality of dr mcdonald medo McDo is remark remarkable ablo abio and nod his conception of a public need is sagacious and admirable i |