The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, May 27, 1914, Image 5
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MM«t> of thm hojr^ and
at tbalr play aad they recall
the featavee of the tfevoted comprn-
leaa of aly yoath. See the old school
fanitare. carved with the Jaek kn<ie
literatare of a bdy’e life, dtradce'
: atraage! for tieee eyes never
theeo far-off ecenee—these new
freshly hailt. These ea.’s never
I a aether's dr teacher i prayer,
on Ptinqaj lea oeui joj
eoes every seven years and in a. hfe-
tlaM have tea different bodies: he
■MV have a hnadred different trains,
hat aaUd all of the changing, tran-
sieot rh'-wai of Una-, ihe “I" renain-
ed "L** It Is memory that with a
goMoa Abroad hinds together these
theaq^ts of Ipve. these dreams, these
prayers Into the 'bundle we call life.
Aad the lapse of more than thlrty-
•vc years has not dimmed the mem
ory of the affection that * had for
my trst school teacher, even lonp
since gone to Join the sains and if
she looks down upon us from her
home la Paradise—and I am sure
she does—she extends to us her
blessing and with her saintly voice
gives the speaker—her former pupil
—a sweet benediction. She was sec
ond only to mother in my boyish af-
fection'wben I think of those happy
days, and I am freshly impreared
with the important place heid bv the
school teach?-, especially in the n:-.
ral commum l-M to a much larger
. extent than we suspect the lives of
bur children are moulded and fash
ioned by their te.vcbers to who-c
cat* during the early and plastic
, years tfwy are confided, during a
great number of their working
hours.
I have often thought that the pro
fession of teaching is as important
as that of the ministry and that our
teachers ought to be as carefully se
lected.
Education stands for two things:
the survival of the fittest and the
condemnation and rejection of the
unfit. It stands for law and order
and forbids alike that awfu.l loose
ness which is the grinning scandal.
of our town, country and state life.
Education is the means by which the
whole man—body, sole, spirit aad in
tellect is personalized and realized
up to tbe highest rapacity.
Ttaei. ; intelligence or low er con
sciousness and the intuitive facuitv
or higher consciousness must all ,
give their part and be given due at- j
tendon. *
There is a protess which consists i
. in imparting information to tin* ! n- j
telligeocc or lower consciousness
and which is oopularlv called -du
ration. Hut this is only a part of an ;
-ducation-\the nobles; faculty of th > ,
human being is the capacity of ■
Knowing and 'real'zing the presence
of God 'And \my system for *ho
training of youth which should :n:;i-r>
no provision for »hv development .of
tbs faculty would l»e a travesty in
'education and a m mce :«> citilizi-j
tion.
The hoys and-:'''Is *oday are ' i» j
..men and women of to»!orro\ Th- .
are to hofd and «iire< < the the d • ti-’
•f this republic
it Is Um.4«-
ty of tho fsthers sad mothers of our
laud to whop God has committed
these children us a sacred trust sad
It is the duty of tho teachers who
havo chosen this noble profession as
their life work to see. to it that these
little ones are trained in the princi
ples of highest life. In the prlnci-
Plss of faith which are tho safe-
I guards of tho home and society—
tho bulwarks of the state and the
ideals of civilisation.
The trouble with much of our ed
ucation Is thpt it Is without coher
ence. This is illustrated in Ameri
can methods of education under our
public school aytem. This system of
education is probably the most
frankly .non-religious, not to say
beathumb in its nature, probably,
in the '■world. And -. Jiecause good
men and women In some of our
schools redeems them from pagan
ism by tho rending of the Bible and
an occasional prayer ia to the credit
of the teacher and not to the system
that comes perilously near to avowed
heatbeniam. This la what I mean
when I say that much of our educa
tion lacks coherence and neither
science nor philosophy is competent
to cover this fundamental defect.
What is needed In our prominent
instiutions of learning where edu
cational standards are about with
the best, hardly to prqclam in the
ory and practice, that God manifest
ed In Jbsus Christ is the source and
end of all knowledge, that history,
science and philosophy begin and
And their interpretation In God’s
character'and his dealings with men;
that the one way in which to give
to life adequate purpose and to edu
cation its true Meaning is to make
the unseen and eternal play its con
stant stream the seen and temporal.
That no machinery of a state can
save a soul; that no mechanical re
adjustment of our circumstances can
save a nation; that Christian creed
and life are not an adjunct taken in
to the system of intellectual train
ing, but it is a foundation without
which all education is worthless and
ephemeral.
. We are in danger of being hedged
in by a piddling exactitude about
matters of fact. We are in danger
of reaching a condition where edu
cation is nothing buaaa collection of
facts, a collection of classified and
dried specimens to he arranged in
a glass case. We forget that the
more universal a truth is. the more
U eludes the subtlest definition and
fades away into a margin of 'mys
tery.
There is many a great truth that
the soul cannot label or justify at
the bar of understanding, or fit into
a system of thought but’to which it
leaps with an intuition and values
with the estimate of love. This, too,
is knowledge. This, too. is reality.
In the hour of high resolve. In the
experience cf tender grief, in tiie a« t
of generous forgiveness, the blind
eyes are opened and the truth is re
vealed Facts are good but I want
th* truth with the f*<ts. I want tie 1
pur*', strut ; truth expr- • 1 li.
t'oei-y of M lton and Tetv.v on, I
;u the "-utli ! find in the poetry
•f Matthew AraoM iat
Stephenson and Roto
the truth that beam aad f—bv be
hind the voice of the mind aad mb da
a mystic messafe of party la the
flowers. Lot us a way with the con
ception that wo most tarn every
thing around between ear thaaibe
end fingers before we can say we
kaow that there le each n thing ns
space, though I have not Journeyed
to the confines of tho stare. I know
there Is such a.thing as light,"'er-
if it does elude me, when I try
think of it and of all relatlopMlp.
I think and things are clear add evi
dent to my thought about which I
am forced to speak !■ symbols aad
in analogy. So God may olade me
when I try to abstract Him from the
universe and think of Him la unre
lated isolation, but that doss aot
mean that I cannot know Him, that
I cannot think of Him as the Su
preme Reality; that I cannot pray to
Him aa a Father, who moves the
whole of Infinite love down to the
tender plant of sympathy that touch
es the heartache nnd sorrow of an
orphan child—the fear of the Lord
Is the beginning of wisdom. Thus
at once religion baiomcs the unify
ing element in education and gives
to It s beauty and power for the
self development of the whole man.
It ia sometimes charged that*we of
the South live much in the past and
boast unduly of the achievements of
our forefathers. If this be true then
the manhood and .the womanhood
of the South should she to it that we
will no longer be characterised as a
people with a rich and glorious past
and a meagre, degenerate, present.
The most enduring monument that
we can erect to the memory of our
lamented dead is in the lives of those
who will put as much power In times
of peace as our fathers put into bat
tle and siege. *
The great problei-s of life weigh
upon our human spirite as heavily
as they ever did before and no hu-
vance l n wiencf 1 or philosophy of
fers us any relief. You may educate
and you may cultivate and refine.
You may have high education, beau
tiful refinement of culture and man
ners and the world will still groan
because you have not dealt with the
taproot of the evil. - rou may carry
out all your modern panaceas for the
solution of he mind's problems and
the trouble will begin over agan be
cause the evil has been dealt with
in n superficial way. v ,You cannot j
cure an internal cancer tliat is pal
ing away your life by a dose of ipe
cac. Death reigns over ail bechure
ail have sinned and the hope of hu- |
inanity is ‘-till centered, not in our
sc hools ami * olleges, not in the wis
dom of men hu* ir the amazing
truth, “t!o*l so loves! the world that
He gave His only begotten Son.” that
the divine remedy in a state of anar
chy and crini ' and ramp.int evil in
tbs rebel world that man might be
better fitted f.,r li-f-e’s duties, fnr life’s
end and. abc.•• that life shall
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