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tions, however, were so dediced, and some opinions so generally
acquiesced in, that they may properly be reported.

A bold effort is to be made to advance the cause of sound learn-
ing under just religious influences.

It was said that the Church had not prospered in her Missionary
work so long as she sent here and there a forlorn Priest or Deacon;
she had. Therefore, changed her policy and learned to send the
Bishop first. Thus, in the matter of education, we have labored to
establish here and there a School, an Academy, or a College of
moderate pretensions. Let us rally around a University which
shall necessitate the minor orders, and create in time the schools
tributary to it. Already the University of Virginia is supplying
that State with its chief instructors, and infusing its educational
system into alll the common schools.

It was said, moreover, that there is a confidence in the stability,
the intelligence, the learning of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
which will secure a cordial assistance from many not of our com-
munion, when it is proposed to found, for the production of sound
learning under the sanctions of the christian (sic) faith, an institution
free to all persons who desire to secure such training for their sons.

It was agreed, as will be seen in the declaration of principles, that
to avoid confusion and jealousy, each diocese shall be the guardian
of the funds raised within its own limits.

It was further agreed, as appears from the same document, that
the money so raised shall be devoted to securing intellectual excel
lence, rather than to be expended in material forms. With this view,
the funds contributed are to be preserved intact. The interest, and
none of the principal, is to be used in the purchase of lands and the
erection of buildings, so that when the University is ready for oc-
cupancy, its endowments, undiminished, will secure, by liberal sal-
aries, the best talent and soundest learning (as one feared not to
say) that the world can furnish.

* * * * * * *

It was thus, that twenty men, representatives of no mean con-
stituency, assembled; and thus they took counsel together of an
enterprise, which might seem to great for them, dignified as are
many among them in office and rich in their personal endowments.

They met in the open sunlight, for they would have all their pur-
pose to lie patient to the day. They stood upon the solid rock, for
their intent was firm and righteous. They stool where but a few
years since, all was forest and the Indian’s home, and the far
reaching landscape dotted with rich fields was a help to faith:

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while the silver stream, which bursts there through solid rocks,
proclaimed that patience is invincible.

They stood upon the Pisgah of the Lookout Mountain and gazed
earnestly in the glories future of their hope. What if these men
of God shall not adventure into it themselves! It is glory enough,
even to those who rest in an unknown grave, to have led their
people towards a fair possession.

Twenty men upon Mount Lookout! Yet not more feeble than the
lone Elijah upon Carmel. “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?”
While they pray with bowed heads and anxious expectation, may
the cloud of promise increase into the rain of richest benediction!

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

TRUSTEES OF THE PROPOSED SOUTHERN
UNIVERSITY.

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN,
near Chattanooga, Tennessee, July 4, 1857.

This being the time and place for the assembling of the Trustee
appointed by several dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
in the Southern and South-Western States, to confer touching the
establishment of a University under the auspices of said Church, a
godly number of persons convened at the “Mountain House.”

At the hour of 11 A.M., a procession was formed under the con-
duct of Major A. M. Leah, of Tennessee, who acted as Marshal, and
marched in order to the stand appointed for the opening exercises.

The Hundredth Psalm having been devoutly sung, a portion of
Holy Scripture appropriate to the occasion (being the 22d chapter
of Joshua) was read by the Rt. Rev. Wm. M. Green, D. D., Bishop
of Mississippi. The Te Deum was then sung, followed by prayers,
offered by the Rt. Rev. N. H. Cobbs, D. D., Bishop of Alabama,
and these succeeded by the Gloria in excelsis (sic).

The Declaration of Independence was read by the Hon. G. B.
Duncan, of the diocese of Louisiana, and an account given of the
flag which waved above the stand.

The address was then delivered by the Rt. Rev. J. H. Otey,
D. D.. Bishop of Tennessee, and the assembly presently dispersed.