Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-02-15
THE SWORD AND THF nm

orlng 10 chas'iSe 'he Cattres at the q.
of Good Hope, and through the tor.
an exterminating force to reduce l
African Savages to docility, it h,
become the settled policy of Sir q.
Gray, the present British Cover.
try another and less costly method
wishes to Christianize, and TIM.
them; and has come out with a o,-.
ment proposal to expend Sl5o.0o0.
in that colony in supporting mission..
provided that the various mission..
cieties viii do as much more. For
years, far larger sums have been sDen,:
inficting injuries which have oDIv
voked retaliation. If the horrors If :.
age incursions can be stopped in tbi, =.
it viii certainly be cheaper, as we'll
more humane.
1t is a singular fact, and one wo,a
the attention of statesman, that !,
species of labor that men engage
the expense so great in proporti,o Il 4
work accomplished, as in war; xha.
none is so much labor performedso1..,
ly as by some of the missionary o;;,,..
riders in the backwoods, or in s,v,n
country. Every one of the two hpnars
and fifty thousand soldiers around SeB,.
topol has cost, on an average, far nwes
France and England, than a missiops7
would have done in any part of the glo5s
and two hundred thousand men who wen
out on the voluntary system to persus3
men to love each other, to live virium.
", and to obey God, would have done IA
more to insure peace and promote III
good of the world than the capture Of ,
hundred such fortresses, and certain
much more than the destruction Of half,
million Of soldiers, and the exasperatia
impoverishment and debt, occasioned b.
the present war.
If Sir George Gray can once esta>
fish a line of civilized Africans arom.
him, he viii do more for the projections
the colony, than the old Roman wall d
for the north Of England, or than any lin
Of forts he could place along the fontier
could accomplish.
1t is a singular fact that while eva
government in the world probably spa.
more moneyfor war purposes in each ia
than the income of all the missionary S
cieties on earth put together; ne h1
learned more of the languages of uncf
lied nations through missionaries, nor
of their manners and customs, their lise
ry, their government, and their ars
through missionaries, than from armig
or indeed from any other source. era
commerce ITSELF The colony at Iiser.
has done more for Africa, than that Of ID.
Cape Of Good Hope; though the fnzz
never cost the Government of this gm..
ry any money of Importance, and isa2r
in fact, self-sustaining.
But we believe this principle is cags
bic Of being carried out in many olha
ways. It viii be found universally mud
cheaper, wiser and more practicable Tia
is generally supposed, to educate men
that they will act right of themselTa
than to pursue, punish, and reform tb-
when they do wrong.
The educatian of the masses to higda
and higher degrees of attainment in ever
thing that can enoble and dignity man,
the true policy, especially for the presa
walton Of our institutions. 1t is not onr
education in reading and writing to whit
we allude, though that is of course il.
Guided. The fact is, we are all daily BE-
ing educated by the manners and custom
of those with whom we associate, AM
educating-that is,drawing out-the goa
or the evil in them, and in ourselYa
Every habit educates far more than any
instruction. Action is the great and uni
versal teacher.
Let any man look around him as be
walks to or from the post-oflice TO BIZ
business, and he will see on every side
the marks of a thousand customs that an
influencing the future character of multi
tudes, for good or for evil. There ar
the germs of young thieves, drunkards
and outcasts, being trained up IN our
midst by the poverty and parentage theT
cannot help, the vices to which they are
compelled TO minister, ana rne neglect
and contempt they receive from. those
who should be their best protector and
truest friends.
Let each man look around him, not as
a Pharisee, but as friend of humanity.
and he viii be able to accomplish far
more for the world in Graduating crlns
than the whole host of constables arme.