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contrary to the spirit that animated students in his day. His specific 

 contribution to the debate was tliat a leading member of the church 

 had said to him. : " Cut the connection between the church and 

 Queen's, and in five years you will have no theological faculty." 



The Rev. John Hay briefly supported the resolution, contending 

 that nothing would be lost by submitting the matter to a commission, 

 while much migjit be gained. 



Professor W. G. Jordan supported the Principal's contention 

 that the movement was on the real line of evolution and was the in- 

 evitable outcome of all the past changes. He protested against the 

 introduction of Mr. Carnegie's name, as the matter of pensions was 

 only a small part of a comprehensive case. But as it had been forced 

 into the discussion he must confess that, while having no personal 

 knowledge of IMr. Carnegie, he considered that such ideals as peace, 

 heroism and education, to which that gentleman had devoted 

 so much wealth, were essentially Christian. He then stated that 

 the fears expressed as to the destruction of Queen's Theological 

 Faculty by the progress of the present movement seemed to him 

 to be groundless. The proposal to remit the matter to the Presby- 

 teries of the three central synods he regarded as unreasonable. The 

 three central synods were an artificial group that had no standing 

 in the charter. If the charter was to be taken literally the whole 

 church was the corporation and the constituency. The attempt to 

 limit Queen's to the three synods showed that the phrase, the Pres- 

 byterian Church was the corporation, could not be taken absolutely. 

 As to Dr. Campbell's statement that the supporters of this move- 

 ment contradicted themselves, saying that Queen's was free and 

 also that she was hampered, he pointed out that the contradiction 

 was in the actual circumstances, because the life of the university 

 had outgrown the terms of the charter. The changes proposed were 

 in the dead parchment rather than in the real life. If it was proved 

 that the interests of a thousand students demanded reorganization 

 within the university, he did not think that the Theological College 

 with its thirty students could stand in the way. 



Mr. Drysdale, of Montreal, thought that Mr. Carnegie had a 

 very good theology, viz., that of doing justice and loving mercy. He 

 declared that the tendency was to nationalize all progressive educa- 

 tional institutions. He characterized the statement of Rev. Dr. 

 Campbell, that the corporation of the university extended from ocean 

 to ocean, as bunkum. Members of the church had no real control of 

 Queen's University. 



