Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-04

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oar day finds employment in the city, and in
wear or two returns, so exquisite in boots,
coat. hat. beard and cane, so made into citi-
zen. so civilized. that VIC scarce know him,
ard re cares not a pin to know us. Now
what are the means by which human being
shalt be raised TO the true plane of civiliza-
enlightenment? What studies shall
bridge the gulf? There is but one left It's,
viz: Language - Thought Language,
through whose aid men express their feelings.
passions, emotio Is, and from them build the
fabric of thought, assist, encourage and in
struct each other in mental and in moral cul-
ture, Without its aid or equivalent the mis-
sion of the Great Teacher had been untuihll-
ed True, God creates his ideals and sends
them to be our instructors in the reals, by
which he surrounds us; and our spirits re-
translate these reals back again into ideals.
The violet springs up beside our path. 1t
first existed in the mind of its Creator. 1t
took its plant life in material form, and ex-
lists in our spirits as an idea only. But by no
such Intervention of the material can the Gre
ator's idea OF the high susceptibikties of the
human spirit, of its capacities and capabili-
ties for moral growth and moral uses, be con-
veyed to human spirit. These can be trans
mitted through the medium Of Thought Lam
guage' only--that glorious gift of the good
Creator which distinguishes man from the
brute and raises him to be little lower than
the angels. BY the aid of Thought
Let each learn to look upon the things OF
another devise no evil against thy neighbor,
seeing he dweleth securely by thee Love
thy neighbor as myself and the golden rule,
alike forhidding sefishness, while enjoining
the exercise of our highest beneyolence.
Every man can measure his own civilization,
by finding in his own heart how far he is sell
fish, how far he is benevolent. The Great
Teachers lessons, beginning with the mate
rial and rising to the supersensuous, find their
media in thought language only. His lessons
on Tribute to Cesar, The Lilies of the
Field The Sower of the Seed The travel
er among thieves and highest of all, the
woman at the well, could thrill human hearts
with the deepest emotions, and inspire human
courage to the lofticst sacrifices, to the benev-
olcnce of martyrdom, only because they can
be told in thought language. For the Father
seekcth such to worship him. God mishes for
man, for the human spirit, man ,cants God,
and use the term wants in both its signifca-
tons; needs God, as that being in whom it
lives, and moves and has a being; wishes for
God as the only complement and satisfaction
of its longings for Immortality.
These thoughts and longings are only made
known and learned through thought language.
God recognizes language as the only means
of raising man to himself. | cannot attempt
to define sentence-a word is too mighty for
me. have from high authority that, In the
beginning was the word, and the word was
with God, and the word was God Tiny word
is TRUTH
The Professor here applied his subject to
the general course of studies in our schools,
an improved course in which the close and
careful study of language should have the
highest place, as q means by which the rising
generation should achieve that enlightenment
for which God has fitted, and to which he has
destined the human race. He called atten-
ton to the absurd and erroneous notion that
scientific terms should not be taught children,
and should be carefully weeded from the text
book. This error had reduced the vocabulary
of the schools to the lowest and meanest pos
ible, vocabulary which enabled its possessor
to enjoy nothing higher than the yellow-cov-
cred literature of the day, effeetually barring
the graduates of our schools from the vocab-
ularies of the lecture room, the rostrum and
the pulpit from the current literature so
beautifully sent forth by publishers, in the
highest order of magazine or periodical of
scientific or semi-scentific character; hence
they are left capable of enjoying only what is
gross and unworthy of a human spirit.
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