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-AMERICA THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD (By Bishop Candler) "Nothing is worse for a nation than over-wise wickedness," says Bishop "Warren A. Candler, in the article which follows. "The awful state of things in Europe is the ripened fruit of secularism. We are reaping some cf the fruits of secularism in our own country. Men are inquiring the cause of social restlessness and moral disorder in our land. Whatever secondary causes may enter into the case. ' we may he sure the final and fruitful eaus^.is the departure of man from GodSt Tf the torch of civilisation has been handed to us let us see to it that it burn with a pure and steady flame, and guide the nations in safe and holy paths of peace. , In a recent address at the Virginia Hot Springs, the Hon. Myron T. Herrick, who was the United States ambassador to France at the out break of the war in Europe, saia: * "The light of Europe has gone out and a torch has been handed down to us." ' A few days later in an address before the National Educational Association Chancellor Frank Strong of the University of Kansas declared that "American Universities must become the centres of the intellectual life of the next generation as a result of the European war." These utterances direct attention to a most serious result of the European war, and they point .out a most solemn responsibility which has come ( to our country. No mor^ weighty obligation has ever fallen upon a nation than that which in this crisis has fal- J len upon the United States. In confirmation of the view expres- j ' ted by Ambassador Herrick and Chan cellor Strong, there are at this time | thousands of students from Oriental j lands in American institutions. It fc_said that something like 15,000 C^nese students are attending col-1 leges and universities in the United States. It is impossible to say what may be the number from other lands, but we know there are many thousands of them. The influences, educational and otherwise, which are now prevailing in America are reaching to the ends of th^earth, and they ere giving color to the thought and life of all mankind. This condition of world wide influence is not a temporary matter; it will abide for many years, if not'for many generations. It behooves the American people to pause and inquire what is the character of the influence which we are to impart to theworld. What is the type of education which we are giving? Will it make for religion and piety and peace or will it engender selfishness and secularism and strife? It is to be feared that in many of It 1 i J_'J i! .i 1 me strongest institutions 01 learning in the northern states, if strength be measured by financial resources alone, the type of education which is being propagated is by no means admirable, but is such that it cannot promote the welfare of mankind. In recent issues of the publication called "The Outlook" have been published sundry "confessions" of undergraduates which exposed the weakness of these institutions. The first of these "confessions" appeared in the Outlook of July 28, and the writer declared that his observations of college life led him to believe that it begot "an incapacity for work." ! In the Outlook, issued on August 38, appeared other "confessions" and criticisms of like import. One father writing from a place in Illi-" nois says, "Many parents who think {hey are giving their sons an opportunity of building a foundation for the future in sending- them t.o col I lege, are simply sending them on a vacation of idleness that may spoil them for the rest of their lives." | In the same issue of the Outlook appears a "confession" from a stuPent in California which reads as follows : "I myself am a third-year student in a Western college, which is one of the largest in the world. I take it that this article was written on an Eastern University, and therefore hasten to say that the same evils which were set forth in it are true of our Western institutions, and exist in perhaps an even more aggravated form. | "Before the social life, of which I the fraternities and the dramatic organizations are the center, the politi-' cal life (we have studentgovernment and the athletic life, in at least one' of which a student must take an ac-j tive part to maintain the respect of j his classmates, there is but little time ' for study, and, as a matter of pure fact, there need be little for to get an A. B. is merely a question of art-' ful dodging?of the difficult courses. "One does not have to go to college long to learn that the real student is a doubtful quantity, a dim figure in the far background of college life, who gets little respect from his professors and none whatever from his so-called fellow-students. The intricate maze of student activities ab sorbs the major part of the time of ninety per cent of tfae students. I myself am working: overtime doping )ut the 'easiest way' so that I can maintain my present 'ultra-active' part in dramatics; and I am only one of thousands in the same sideshow of inefficiency rubbed to a fine polish." Other writers speak very much after the same manner, and their statements make out a bad case for many of the largest institutions in the United States. The subject has attracted the attention of the editor of the New York Sun, who has published a scarifying editorial on the subject. We of the South should not take pleasure in these manifest defects of Northern and Western institutions; but we shoiild be careful that our colleges and universities do not imitate them. It may be claimed that these evil' characteristics-promote what is vainly called "college spirit;" but let it be said in reply that they do not promote the real objects for which institutions of learning are founded. A college or university is not an end in itself, but a means to an end; and the object to its existence ought not to be sacrificed for the shadowy and shoddy thing paraded as "college spirit." In view of the world-conditions to which reference has been made the Southern people should awake to the duty of strengthening and improving their institutions of higher learning. This is a matter of urgent necessity which is enforced by conditions of both interest and duty. But while we make our xinetitutions stronger and richer, let us see to it that they maintain a high and elevating quality for mere bigness. Unless the faculties of our institutions of learning seek the convertion and spiritual develop ment of their students, grounding them in the essential doctrines of the Scriptures, and leading them into the Christ life, they forfeit the claim of these institutions upon public benevolence and favor. It is regretable that secularism in education has gone too far in the United States. As a neoDle we are in danger of deifying knowledge and minifying moral character. Knowledge is good, but when it is separated from religious principles it becomes positively evil. Nothing is worse for a nation than over-wise wickedness. Our example of secularism in education is bearing bad fruit in the Orient. The Imperial government of Japan recently proclaimed a programme of educational secularism for Korea, and avowed that the example of the United States inspired this misguided policy. The Japanese government even threatens to secularize the schools of the Christian churches in Korea. This would be nothing less than both a calamity and a crime. The Christian people of America, who are concerned for the welfare of the Orient, should lay this matter to heart. They have slumbered too 1 r?n or lirVtila fVlic rvt*Aiinn mAwil ^aa??1 IVllg TT11UV b&IXO glVVTIllg pel 11 VI OCUUl arism in education has been advancing. The poison has infected many of our own institutions, and is now spreading to heathen lands. Who can overstate the dreadful significance of such a fact? The awful state of things in Europe is the i?ipened 'fruit of secularism, and, if similar conditions extend to the Orient, especially to Japan, which bears a peculiarly in fluential place in the Orient, there is before mankind a more, dreadful chapter in its history than that which is now being written on the bloody fields of the barbarous conflict of Europe. We are reaping, some of the fruits of secularism in our own country. Men are inquiring the cause of social restlessness and moral disorder in I our land. What every secondary cause may enter into the case, we may be sure the final and fruitful cause of it all is the departure of j man from God. This is the root of the lynchings and shamless deeds of violence which have disgraced us so often. Human life is held cheap because the Creator and Redeemer of ^ man is despised. Fierce passions run unrestrained because the authority J of God has been set at naught. Human laws are defied because God's' laws are held in contempt. In this connection, let us remind j ourselves that if we are to have any j part in the enlightenment of the world, we must set a good example as well as teach by precept. What( son 01 example does a state set for therest of mankind when lynchings are repeated within its borders and the prepetrators of such crimes go unapprehended and unpunished? How can we teach the Chinese to abandon thedemoralizing use of opium when we encourage, under the ' protection of law, the use of more destructive intoxicants? How can we teach honesty when defalcations and thievery are reported in every day's issues of our newspapers? What sort of purity can we impart to other lands when licentiousness runsr iot in our own country? These questions may be painful for us to consider, but it is necessary for us to face them. We must have a revival of right living or suffer the lesults which inevitably follow the j decay of faith and the decline of | morality. Because we have been fa- | vored with greatnatural ' resources | and long years of peace, we are not to g suppose that we can set God's laws | it naught and still be secure. We are j| lot sucl? favorites of heaven that we G an expect partial treatment before ? 'he throne of God. The scriptures j| reach us, and all history exemplifies E :heteaching, that the nations which {I forget God are turned into hell; and [f ive may as well understand that God- j| ' forgetfulness on our part will lead to 1 chat dreadful end just as it has led [I tc- the utter over-throw of all the na- [| tiens who have tried the^Vicked ex- ? periment. .a DAIRY COWS SHOULD 1 HAVE BETTER CARE 1 (By J. H. McClain?U. S. De- | partment of Agriculture.) @ The food value of butter and milk ?3 is not appreciated on the averntce I] farm and these things are too often ? regarded as luxuries. Sweec milk .is 1 well as buttermilk should be had in li such quantities that every member of s the family, sick or well, coulri h:i\e ? all desired. If this were the case [a the health of the family would be im- j| proved as well as the expense of feed- ? ing the family lessened. The quality of farm milk and out- |j ter should be the best. Much of tr.e ? product of the farm cow is prrcuced 0 under unsanitary conditions, the ccw [a being kept in such a filthy lot or sia- s ble that the securing of milk is moi'e very difficult if not well nign impoo- ra sible. Farm butter as a rule is maue |] in such a way as to discredit it upon j| the market, and therefore reduce its g price far below that properly made, a Butter branded as "country" is han- j| dicapped in the market becau^o the G| method of its making has generally made poor quality its chief posses- ? sion. H The-poor price of butter, together ? with the poor care and poo.* feed jl OPIVAn til A fowift A/vm Unn J L ? f2l M?V WTTJ iiao cauouu HIT Pjj not to be regarded as a farm asset. Ojj How many instances can be cited ryj where poor and scant feed and po;.r ? care make it require two or three [| farm cows to produce the milk that I] one well fed and properly cared for {a cow gives. Poor feed, poor care, jf} and filthy 'surroundings make scrub 'j| cows, and poor methods of making butter make bad quality and low ? price. All these together make handl ^ ing the farm cow drudgery and create the impression that cows are not fc profitable. A disgust for cattle k ft bred into the minds of the young tc people on the farm by the way the average farm cows are handle^. q, Every farmer, small or large, ten- ft, ant, or owner of his land, can provide m at small cost such conveniences a*3ont a] the cow lot and kitchen as will r??- tc duce the labor of caring for the cow tl and her products many times, and aJ make the entire work cleanly and i,5 free from drudgery, if not a pleasure. w The proper care and feed of the cow p, will increase her production at lea^t 25 per cent, and the proper marking ft and packing of the butter will raise jr its price from five to ten cents per jr pound. These things will make the al cow a profitable producer and a fj source of cash income. All these in turn will create an interest in better cows which will increase the income 01 and gradually exert an influence on the boys andi girls which will cause them to take an interest in the farm p] cattle. th SEPTEMBER GARDEN NOTES * | S? (By W. F. Massey in Progressive Farmer) One who takes pride in a garden all the year round should have some glass hot-bed shades. A market gardener will have plenty of these in k< long rows. In my home garden I ^1" use small frames so that I can have a rotation of crops in them. My ^ frames are all for three sashes each and there are extra frames for shift- ^ ing the sashes as I shall tell. I use ^ sashes with two large layers of glass. n< These keep out all frost when the irame is well banked with earth on la the outside. The crops I grow in P1 these frames are lettuce, radishes, a | beets and onions for transplanting in spring. Then too I grow some flowers in them in winter by planting a frame thickly with Roman hyacinths, Paper White narcissus, and pansies. k, W Seed for the outdoor crop of fall letuce were sown early in August, . and now (August 13) thp nlontc 1S up and growing, and will soon be w transplanted into beds six feet wide cc and eight inches apart each way. w These are the May King variety, in- sc tended to head in late October. di In September I will sow seed of the sc Big Boston lettuce and will set the li plants 8x10 inches in the frame. The hi soil in the frame will be stuffed with tl rotten manure, and as the plants m start to grow I will give light dress- s< ings of nitrate of soda along the s1 rows. The glass will be put on when tl 3JSM2Mi3JSMSJSI3J3JSISMSJ3JS?3JcJS:5J5MSlc SA/ (fjJSJSMSMSJSJSISISISJSJSMSEISMSMc f^S ?! I Hie Ros M . DEI W = I NEW if < *1 * *1 d? a $ m M We are glac ^l| large shipn hope you wi x| We invite fl just$15.00 if II THE BO! ^ Abbevill ie nights threaten to be frosty. This lettuce is intended to head >r Christmas and New Year. After I- ?^ J 3 f is cut out tneirame wii oe pmnucu ) radishes and beets in rows six iches apart. The radishes come aickly and are pulled before the sets need the room. By the first of arch the sashes will be needed on i extra frame to harden off early 1 imato plants that were started in ie greenhouse in early February, id the beets are hardened off and t grow without the sashes, and they ill be ready to pull about the time sople are sowing beet seed. In another frarm I sow lettuce seed ie last of October in rows eight iches -apart, and thin it out ten tcnes the other way, and manure id fertilize as the fall lettuce. This ; ame gives me heads late in winter id early psring, and the frame is ] StJU iur auwing a uuy j f tomato plants. ] ] Another frame, as I have said, is [anted in September with bulbs of le hyacinths and narcissus, and afsr the bloom of these is over the ishes are removed to an extra frame here the bedding plants from the . reenhouse in pets are hardened off >r setting out. In another frame I set in Novemir cauliflower plants from seed sown le middle of September. I set six ants to each sasfc and fill in with le small-heading Tennis Ball let- j ice. The lettuce is cut out during j le winter and by the first of March ] le cauliflowers will be getting up ] jar the glass, and I gradually har- ' ?n them to the outer air and finally te in March strip off the saskes and at them on an extra frame and plant . hill of cucumbers under each sash ^ ir earlv rnmimhprs. 1 WEEVILS IN CORN . Where the weevil is'very destruc- ' ve the corn is often badly damaged ' jfore it is removed from the field. ' re have seen some notable examples 1 l! this in the Delta country of Miss- 1 sippi. Under j;uch conditions it ' ould help considerably to gather the >rn early and store it in the barn, here the weevil could not get to it s \ conveniently. : But, even then, to suppress weevil 1 image it would be necessary to re- . >rt to measures of extermination. i sections where weevil damage is eavy every corn grower ought, ? rf lerexurc.. tu uav; a ugmlent in his crib cr barn for the corn ) that it could be fumigated to de;roy the pest. Carbon bisulphide, at ie rate of 1 pound to 1,000 cubic , L Try-.? * . i.enberg Me PARTMENT STOR FALL S special: 15.0 \ 'V *' ' % I to announce the < tent of our $15 Sf ill come in and look comparison. 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