The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-06-21

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more or less the regulated light Of expo
rience. Fix Its gaze alone on phenomena
with no apprehension ol law; upon elects
with no search for causes, and you breet
a brood of empires. Again, unduly aban
don the faculties to the control Oi the leel
ings, the fancy, and tho Imagination
and you generate mystics, children
Of blind superstition, who see mel
us trees walking, and grope abou
in o world but hall realized, grasp
ing It's shadows. Still further, let thC
training be thoroughly sCientihc-'bpt con
fined 10 Physics-let 1t DO inducIlYe ant
logical-broadly based on observation anC
experiment, and skilled In the judgmen
OF premises and the use Of proofs, till yOl
reach the grand development Of Hux.
ley or q Tyndall, and you have only /
physicist, perhaps materialist The su
persensuons world ofspirit has never beer
brought within the tield.view Of theil
telescopes, or microscopes or spectre
scopes, and because II is not so known
and upon Paul's authority cannot bl
known, they are ready 10 deny that there
Is such'a world at all Good christians
are sOmetimest startled at the dOgmalism
Of scientists about spiritual thingS-tell
ing what they see and cannot see through
their glasses what they read and cannol
read In the rocks. Do they forget thai
1t is the very nature Of spirit not to be
seen In telescopeP
One would think that these dogmatists
imagine the spirit TO be subject TO physic
al analysis, and, that passed through a
prism, 1t should yield spectrum and re-
port It's compositionI But when a man
has shut himself up TO the examination
of the physical world alone, and 10 only
such phenomena and methods Of investi-
cations as belong 10 it, what else can we
expect Of him? One who Is color.blind
cannot discern colors, and one that Is
spiritually blind cannot discern spiritual
things. 1t should not be astonishing,
therefore, when physicist like DIR. Tyn'
dali, who has become famous by finding
out so many wonderful things about the
atmosphere, dust and sound vibrations,
and light undulations. and who Can lee
ture so eloquently, and illustrate so lu
mlnously about them, should nevertheless
make himself in ameaSure ridiculous be.
fore the judgement Of the common sense
of mankind by supposing that The eillca'
cy Of prayer Is TO be tested by physical
experiment Had the religious side ol
Or. Tyndalls nature been duly cultivated
he could never have fallen into this folly.
1t Is not sufficient to educate tho intel
leCt alone, even though you cultivate in
due proportion all its faculties. "Thc
tincture OF the whip must be of divine
light. Hues as from Heaven must rest
on all our seeing. The heart must be
made good; for out Of 1t proceeds the
worst fruits oi dogmatism. Neglect the
passinns-give them unbridled freedom
and the nature will run into shameless
protligacy, degrading debauchery, bcs-
tial licenliousness, aud society become q
lava bed Of entrenChed violence, schemlng
treachery, and lurking for blood. Allow
the will 10 become q law unto itself-tC
make thought and action slaves 10 iti
wants, and BY idolatrous self.exaltation tc
put itself In the place Of God, and say
there shall be no other Gods beside me-
and you nurse the demon Of dogma
tism that will create solitude If neces-
sary that the iron rule Of It's tyranny may
have place. -
This education OF the heart must begin
at the freside; It must be furnished. "
first lessons in the typical sacrifices thR
father and mother lay daily upon thI
family altar; 1t must flow as the very life
current through all tho discipline Of the
primary school. Upon the wrists aut
frontlets OF the pupils, and the phylacterieE
OF the teachers, there must be written In
characters Of living light, the one supreme
eternal law OF noblest human impulsC
and action. "Little children love ont
another" II must pass with the scholars
TO the higher forms oil the academy, and
rule the presiding genius In the person o.
the pedagogue, and here in the college
and the university where all tho arts, and
all the sciences, and tho professions
are taught and learned-over the entrance
to these wide and high temples OF oil
manly, human culture, II you would send
forth the full man, thoroughly furnished
for the noble services Of life, lifted
above the narrowness aud the
tyranny Of dogmatism, all sided ir
their sympaties and, like the oxy,
gen in tho physical world, universal
in affinity for all that Is good and fruitful
Of blessing in the social and spiritual
realms Of thought and action-in these
consecrated places-Over the entrance and
upon the walls OF the students. let the
motto ever stand, "The MASTER light Of all
our acknowledgements for God and char
ity for man. ..s
uoEoRs.
As shown above, the first honors wcrt
conferred upon J. BesuChsmp Clark, oil
Kentucky, and ]. A. Beattie, Of Ohio. Mr.
Clark, the honor man Of the classica
course, Is o young man Of marked talenl
and varied attsinments. he Is 23 years o.
age, Q feet 9 inches in height, and Is O
hearty, robust young chap, and looks the
true ChiValTous KentuCkian. tie is ma
tiveoi Anderson county, and owing TO the
extreme poverty Of his parents he Gem
menced life as farm hand, working fol
his vicluals and clothes, firing Of farm
work, owing TO want Of time for study, hL
engaged as clerk in country store at =
per month. During his clerkship he fitted
hlmselCior q teacher, and at the age oil II
commenced teaching In a rude, back
woods school house, where he was forced
to carry pair Of "navics" to and from
school 10 keep the old folks from "consum
ing him" In 1867 be entered the Ken
lucky University, where he studied thret
sessions and was universally first In all thC
classes. From this institution he was a
the end OF that time expelled for shooting
a classmsto who gave him the liC. Ate
quitting the University he taught schoo
for two years. On the 10Th Of July last
alter many invitations from the faculty L
re.Gnter the Kentucky University, he Or
rived at Bethany. During the year he ha!
taken one.fourth the Sophimore year, one
half the Junior and tho fall Senior, ant
has stood first in eptry class. In the luturt