The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-03-13
must live for regained unity in
Christian State.
RELIGION IN THE SCHOOL.

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II is not sectarian for the teachers o
y Christian State to teach its children
that there is God. II is not sectarisn
for the children Of = Christian State to
read the blessed revelation OF Gods
will. II is not sectarian for the
teachers of Christian State to look to
God for help in teaching helpless child
hood to look to Him for help. II is
not sectarian for the teachers Of q
Christian State to tell His redeemed
children of u Saviour. II IL not Sec
tartan for the teachers of q Christian
State TO teach childhoods dependence
on Gods grace. reverence for His law,
and obligation to confess His holy
name.
We are Christian land, or we are
not II not, we owe 1t to ourselves and
to our homes to bow our heads aud
hearts In humble acceptance Of these
truths. There can be no reason why
unbelief shall seal our lips to the truth
Of God. Ii any church, or sect, or
professed Christian tnan, object TO such
simple faith, ii is because they fear
Christian teachers care will disarm the
prejudice which is the cornerstone Of
their creed. For myself ask nothing
which am not willing to concede to
every Christian man. am willing to
a eA.r ny ,Nioa.A hoaidn
laborer in the State, and I pledge to
Him every sympathy of my heart. If
] have said one word more earnestly
than ought, l crave your pardon.
God knows would not wound any
heart. know no civilization which
] desire for my home save that which
comes by the religion OF Jesus Christ.
So long to see every nursery OF the
State u Christian school.
We are working out one of the
greatest problems OF this worlds his
tory II is msrvel that continent
like America should have been for so
many thousand years unoccupied by
civiiization--a more strange procedure
Of God that after Spain, France aud
Holland had taken il unto their posses
sion, 1t should be given from the North
to the South, and FROM the East te the
West, To the race which represents
constitutional government the world
over There are times in the worlds
history when races of men stand IN
peculiar relations to all other races
The great characteristic Of the Saxon
race at this time, IL, that it never loses
its individuality. You may place its
children in the isles of the sea, ia
Africa or India, and they are Anglo
Saxon still. In this land they are re-
ceiving unto themselves the people Of
every tongue and cline and kin, aud
10 two generations their children are
as one with us, and they have received
our traditions, our customs aud our
laws
In these valleys Of the Mississippi
the fusing of nations into one family, |
ought to teach us that there will grow
up here race OF men more powerful
foi good or terrible for evil, than any
other people on the face Of the earth.
Ny feilowteachers, in such field
God has given US our work-it is to lay
broad and deep the foundations Of
state which will soon have
its millions of souls. DO all work unto
God. Plant your feet in His truth.
Be His soldier to hate all shams and |
cant and cunning lies To be true In
word-in deed--to have 1
that gentleness which is learned IA o
child sitting at Christ's feet, and that
patient toll which knoweth how to /
work and wait, believing in Gods
promise that "he who goeth forth bear.
ing precious seed aud weeping, shall
doubtless come again rejoicing and
bringing his sheaves with him.
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