A Statement of the Reasons Which Induced the Students of Lane Seminary : To Dissolve Their Connection with That Institution (Classic Reprint) by Unknown Author
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These prohibitory enactments have driven us from our beloved institution. Sustaining relations to the church of Christ now rendered somewhat peculiar, duty to his cause demands from us an explicit statement of the grounds of our secession.
We believe free discussion to be the duty of every rational being. It is the acting out of the command "Prove all things." It is inquiry after immutable truth, whether embodied in the word, or hid in the works of God, or branching out through the relations and duties of man. We are bound to conduct this search, wherever it may lead, and to adopt the conclusions to which it may bring us. And, whereas, the single object of ascertaining truth is to learn how to act, we are bound to do at once, whatever truth dictates to be done. This duty of discussion and action is not confered by human authority, and we have no license to resign it upon entering into any association, literary or political. Free discussion being a duty is consequently a right, and as such, is inherent and inalienable. It is our right. It was before we entered Lane Seminary: privileges we might and did relinquish; advantages we might and did receive. But this right the institution "could neither give nor take away." Theological Institutions must of course recognize this immutable principle. Proscription of free discussion is sacrilege! It is boring out the eyes of the soul. It is the robbery of mind. It is the burial of truth. If Institutions cannot stand upon this broad footing, let them fall. Better, infinitely better, that the mob demolish every building or the incendiary wrap them in flames; and the young men be sent home to ask their fathers "what is truth!" - to question nature's million voices - her forests and her hoary mountains "what is truth!" than that our theological seminaries should become Bastiles, our theological students, thinkers by permission, and the right of free discussion tamed down into a soulless thing of gracious, condescending sufferance. But who can doubt the practicability of governing, especially theological, students consistently with these principles. Authority is not nullified. Faculties have their legitimate powers still. It is theirs to inform their pupils that free discussion is a paramount duty, and a right, which the faculty have neither power nor inclination to take away.
It is theirs to direct the inquiries of their students; but they must have a care to direct them wholly by principle.
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