The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-07-11


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Or 4 fancy, that heard
/ Just tho faintest, lispsd word,
| Aud . silver-echoing
Ripple Of hy.l.utateF,
EDUCATION OUR GREAT
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An Address DslivsrsA 1t the Annual Ex-
/ 1t Wi1ons, by 1a6n. Ignstius Dem
molly, Juas 2sth, 1877.
T. = = -... - -
That great phil,nthropist and schol-
II, Charles Sumner, In said, ''This j.
tho difference betwees tho responsible
,ty of tho statesman and the soldier !;
tho one secs only the present, the other
must see the future also. The states
man by vise precaations provides that
the enemy once conquered shall never
rise again" It is all important to as-
certain how this j, to be accomplished.
It j. mot BY, cruelty, Or BY persecution !;
for you cannot convert the mind by
crushing the body. 1.-THE blood Of the
martyrs is the seed OF the church -
The strongest and most enduring in
stinct in human nataro is resistance to
oppression. You =ssnnot degrade a
man below the point Of resentment
The very worm,
.'When trod on will turn upon power"
But there is another work. hu-
mane, 4 merciful, = bloodleas work-a
work worthy Of God himself 1t is to
correct the errors Of men by relieving
their minds Of ignorance.
An error is simply an honest mis-
take Of the judgment. In its sincerity
it is respectable, almost honorable
Even bigotry is but enthusiastic mis-
apprehension. This passionate adher:
ence to the convictions Of the mind
is one Of the sublime instincts Of our
nature and properly directed capable Of
working out most ennobling results -
God has given us the power and the in
stincts Of goodness: ;: The evils of the
world grow out Of tho errors Of tho hu-
man mind. -
To correct these errors, therefore, We
must get behind; them; to their fountsin
be.d-the Judgment: To do this We
must Increase the activity Of all the
senses, for they ara :tae avenues to the
mind We must add to the limited ex-
perience Of the iudi1id idual, tho limitlees
experience of former generations which
teaeheth all wisdom ; We must furnish
to bin those simple yet grand tools by
which the mind works out its prob
lens, the .lphabetio table and the nu-
merals. Instead Of permitting his
mind to: remain sealed chamber,
japanese port. We must open it to oil
the commerce Of the age, and carry in
to it as into = harbor the wealth Of
learning Of the past and present. We
thereby increase the activity Of the
senses aud the faculties; We perfect
the judgment by requiring it to act up
on a thousand diverse objects; We
bring pabulum to the mind and feed
its fiuer and more dormant qualities in-
to life; /; and We send the nature Of the
man into the next generation broaden
ed, improved and invigorated, aud here
BY make the whole race better, strong
or and nobler, With greater control Of
the world and nearer sympathy with
God.
We can take some lessons from d.
,vinity in that broad, all-eomprehending
mercy which augers not At tue weak
ness Of man, but sets itself slowly,
steadily, to increase the wisdom and
intelligence Of the race. "rhe soul Of
goodness in things -svip' needs but cul.
ture to call it, forth. When one con-
siders the great masses Of mankind,
Who, especially in the elder continents,
lie stepped in degradation and wretch
edness, covered with misery as With .
fog, and spotted With crimes *as with
! great moist lungi-&he heart cannot
fail to be filed with commiseration,
and the mind to apply itself at once to
the great question, ''How can ill this
be alleviated 2. How can the light aud
the pure air be let in upon these seeth-
ing, swarming mJriads :" ,.~ .
To make tho groen earth one great
garden Of happiness il task worthy
the most enlightened and powerful M.
ton Of the world-a task to which its
own character and institutions inevita-
bly, direct. The world will accept the
leadership Of such = nation. In the
language Of Volney "Let but power
full and just people appear, and the
earth will beckon them to supreme de-
minion. The world looks forward with
anxiety for Legislative people; it
wishes, it, prayers, call aloud for such
: people," @sE ~. =.
Hs is indeed blind Who does not zee
ID oil our history the hand Of God
Even tho storms have but moro firmly
rooted the oak Of our institutions. And
he js3wose than blind who believes thai
the gifts Of God are to expand only t
the limit Of our national boundary line
A. inevitably as the leaves grow 70
wards tho light 20 inevitably does th,
whole world grow towards ~. France
bases her government today upon th'
viii of the people Italy foua.ds her
self upon the popular vote. German,