The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1873-11-29

IA listened to by constrains? submit
that this Is not doing justly by code
of ethics and method of instruction
which have survived the corruptiOns
and revolutions of more than eighteen
centuries, which. with all the assaults
made upon them, and the tests to
which they have been subjected, have
proved the rightfuness of their claims
upon the acceptance and confidence of
the world by series of moral triumphs
and steadfastness of success such as
no other system has ever achieved.
The ground of all religion, that
which makes it possible, is the relation
In which the human soul stands to God.
This relation Is the root one, and deter
mines a mans real condition, as A.
Kempis says, "what thou art in the
sight of God, that thou truly artl"
Each man, therefore, is religious just
In proportion as he practically recog-
nizes this bond which unites him to his
maker.
If, then. religion be this, it must en-
brace culture, and this for two reasons:
First, because it is itself the culture of
the highest capacity of our being,
and secondly, because If not partial and
blind it must acknowledge all the other
capacities of mans nature as gifts
which God has bestowed that man may
cultivate them to the utmost and elevate
them by connecting the thought of the
giver, and the purpose for which he
gave them. So that religion must, If
unrestricted in its true development,
lead on to culture. And so, culture, Il
thoroughly and consistently carried out,
must lead on to religion, that is, to the
cultivation of the spiritual and heaven
ward capacities of our nature.
Culture alone, in the ordinaryaccepta-
tion ofthat term, will not suffice to satisfy
the longings of our higher intelligence
and conscience, nor give to the world
the blessings which it Graves and needs.
Ancient Greece while it enlightened
and delighted the intellect, did not
reach man in the deepest seats of his
being. Something was required more
inward, more penetrating, more vital.
For this we must look to the simple yet
profound truths of that revelation
which tegan and was perfected in
Judea. Jerusalem" as has been
well said, sis the fountain-head of
religious knowledge to tie world, as
Athens is of secular"
We are ever to remember that in
struction and education are two essen
TALLY different things. The one merely
fills the memory with knowledge, the
other rears up the human mind from
infancy to age, from weakness to
strength. And this progressive draw
ing out of the human mind is not the
work of sculptor dealing with dead,
passive. inert substance, yielding unre-
sistingly to the hand which would
mould it. Far from it. 1t is a living
thing full of motion, and with its own
laws of motion, rapid as thought, un-
seen and untraceable, Glanclng from
heaven to earth, and from earth to
heaven, and gathering at every turn
innumerable combinations of its own
ideas, like the shapes in a kaleidoscope,
And no eye of man can follow it, and
no hand nor voice command its pro-
gress.
What would painter say, If, while
he was working on his canvas the lines
shifted of themselves, one color faded,
another became vivid, others melted
avav together. and he. knowjng little
or notbi5o nf .he 10 ws of theSe CHANGES
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