“The Christian college must make its appeal to our more thoughtful men and women. The things that are seen are temporal but the things that are unseen are eternal. The Christian college deals to a large extent with values, which while unseen, are more fundamental than the physical things evident to all. Such a college must depend for support upon those individuals who are concerned with the spiritual. In fact, the very existence of the Christian college is dependent upon thoughtful people. They are the ones who have built and have supported such colleges throughout the history of our nation, and, in doing this, they have labored to bring the Kingdom of God to men and have taken ‘the seats of the builders of cities and the procurers of peace.’”
The occasion of such focus on Christian higher education was the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Austin College, which reaches back to the early beginnings of the state of Texas. “The moving spirit in the founding of the college was the Reverend Daniel Baker. The first board of trustees included such men as Sam Houston …
and other distinguished citizens. The history of the college closely parallels the history of the State of Texas.”
From “After 100 years” by W.B. Guerrant
