The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-03-13

not by teaching statutory laws-n not b,
expounding written constitntions-no
by lessons concerning the limitation,
and authority OF power. 1t IL rathel
done by laying deep in the human sou
an awful reverence for law. as law, b,
teaching the subjection Of the spirit to
our obligations, which ia the only er.
feet freedom and by the spirit Of the
school teaching loyalty Ia piighted
| faith as tht. highest honor of the cit.
izen Of the STATE. /, is in the vel
ordered routine Of daily tasks aud les
sons, the silent influence of the life
that noblest word Uf our mother
tongue, duty
THE CHURCH AND THE SCHOOL.
| there Ii another institution which is
| the gift Of God, the Church. Science
can never conflict with faiih, ecieice
deals with tac!s-it apprehenGs laws.
Faith goes behind the is~ and kn-e!s
to worship Faith yrasrs truths which
are above reason and accepts them on
the testimony Of God-faith has to do
with things above human kent rests
in Gods eternal word alone. The
church is the depository of Gods re-
! vealed Wilt declares mans necessity
1T offers Gods help--it shows us our
relatioHs-it gives us Il new kinship--
! it makes the children Of the dust, the
children Of Immortality. Take reli-
gion away and what is life but n tread
mill?-a prisOn-house where men
grind in bondage? No thoughts to
cheer no hopes to help-no clue to
life's dark riddie-what Is humanity
~seA.e>.. Gsad p what ia fr-ednm with
out Gods law "a Partisan commune
another gifted race to strew its
wrecks along the path OF time. !
know OF no people that have even pre-
served their own history without God.
You may educate, but your graduates
will be educated devils instead Of men.
But shall he told that with us
there are 50 many rival creeds, aud
separated churches, that we must
ignore christian truth or We shall
touch the quick of some mans heart.
l shall be pointed to the men who
have no faith, 10 those who deny all
christian truth perchance ! may be
pointed to the heathen who crowd up
on our shores. The question is a very
simple one-are We Il christian nation
or are We not " Are We ready 10 sur
render all that we hold dear because
some men would plant on every
school-house he banner There is no
Godw Are we to give up that which
we know has followed our fathers
homes and made our wives and our
daughters something better than the
wives aud daughters of wandering red
men? Are we to give up the holy
thing which can restrain vice and save
the State from shipwreck n we
have reached this ritd, our idol nf ei-
ucation Is shaia, au offence unto men
and az insult to Almighty God. |
admit her. is difficulty. ask you,
my fello1workers, to look il calmly
in the face We may b. tempted 10
make patchwork Of moral truisms,
and leave God and His word out Of our
children's creed, and We may hope
that it will bind US together, hut il
will be rope of sand. l draw no les
son from the record Of daily crimes
all these things you know. The dif1i
Guilty must be met-Me must accept
the situation with ali of its duties, lis
difficulties and its dangers.
The common school, the normal
school and the university are the en-
necessities q; the State created them
They are osf common heritage. With
my whole soul protest against their
perversion 10 give power into the
hands Of any sect or party in the State.
The difficulty is not as real as we
think. Oar own bitter jeaIousies have
us to whole world of Chris
tian truth which lies behind this
chaos of opinion which has divided us
into sects. The things wherein we
differ are our "piiions, and the opin-
ions of one class of men can never be-
come the bond Of union for all men.
would rs soon believe that because
their faces must be cast In
the same mould. as to believe that all
opinions about religious truth must
be alike. am sure that the things
which keep US apart are for the most
part things which never have been.
aud from their nature never can be,
sure that whenever we realize this,
and long for II Tegained brotherhood.
We shall begin 10 feel heart beat
against heart aud hand be joined unto
hand.
There are truths which underlle all
obligation. The teachers OF this day
owe it to themselves and 10 their work
to strive to get out Of this din and con.
flict of sectarian strife into . higher at
mosphere Of faith. That faith Is crys-
talixed in MI Apostles Creed, which 10
the heritage Of nearly every Christian
BODY in America.
Under God, 1t may be to Us the
pledge Of the unity Of all Christian men
in the truth. Until that day comes,
no word must be spoken, which, dying,
We could wish to blot. We may not.
In word or deed, do that which shall
crate harshly on sensitive hearts. We