Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-09-13
Educalson.

| hhoWSuHeHiS AZ truly Salu 70 90 power, ana Q
power too. for good, though IL may bo perverted
to evil. While education is not knowledge, II Is
tho ohief means of acquiring knowledge and Of
proportionate value. 1t is in peouniary point
OF view a never failing supply to oil who will
use 1t. 1t affords pleasure and recreation to the
man of wealth and ease. To tho cripple aud
diseased 1t becomes plow, hoe, land and house,
furnishing meat and drink. II is The inexhausli-
bio bottle, from which may DO drawn at any
timo oil that renders lifo easy, contented and
happy. In moral point of view, its influence
is of tho highest Importance. It guards tho
liberties OF the people, Washington having truly
placed It as one Of tho chief pillars of Rcpubli-
can Government. 1t advances Christianity in
tho knowledge Of tho greatness and goodness of
God, as seen in the universe 1t prevents pau
perism, not only by enabling all to make a
living, but by creating pride and self.respeot
among men, which prevents their descending to
pauperism. II checks crime for all these rea.
sons, and In moral Wow turns to gold whatever
It touches. It is useless 10 speak Of its high
social influences, for without its refining power
society would DO congregation Of chattering
animals, with pride, envy, malice and all the
bascr passions predominating. Education is
wealth. morality and society, with oil they i'm
ply. Who will deny any or all of these propo-
si,ions? Then why stand yo hero idle whom tho
college bell is daily inviting You and your chill
drcn to como up and receive this precious boon
almost without money and without price7 You
can take $500 bond and educate all your sons,
or If not, board and the rates of tuition arc in
accord with the times and within reach of all.
Clubs of families could be mado up, house
rented and by boarding themselves the outlay for
an education would be trifing, while the eduoa-
ton itself would bo invaluable. We say invalu-
able, and can prove it. Go ask the lawyer or
merchant or educated farmer or doctor or
preacher, who has an education, if you could
sell it what woLld you ask for it, or what would
you take in exchange for il? The reply would be.
the wealth of the Lydian King would be no in
ducement. II is to mo meat and bread and
drink, then pleasure and contcntmont, and in
old ago it will bo my greatest solacc. Money
may take wings and fly away, but knowledge,
reflection on what ono has read though ho be
blind, can never be lost or taken from him. The
old Roman we'll expressed the pleasure of know
lcdgo when he said, s'ho was never less alone
than when alone" (''nuuqaam mi,us solus guam
Sotns. meaning that his books and thoughts
were more company than living friends. Such
treasure in old ago would be q never failing
source of pleasure, while in life it had been
never failing support. How many mon have
said if just had IN education, and yet these
men often neglect the minds Of their children
aud imagine that they cannot afford to send
them 10 college. Educate boy and send him
into the world. and if he be worth picking up
hn will o1fo 10 -, fl,o Il
If hc cannot, then though you give him thous-
auds in money he would squander it or by mis-
Management suffer it TO be lost. In tho former
case he could always live by his brains and
present respectable appearance, while in the
latter he would likely be drono or vagabond.
Above oil these considerations of temporal case
and advantage rises one which demands The at
tcntion of oil men who respect deity. The
mind is part Of deity. It was in his spiritual
nature man was assimilated to God This in
cludcs the moral and intellectual faculties, and
their development is duty VIC all owe 10 God
Was tho mind which directs and controls tho
appendagcs of tho body and in the loss of which
man, virtually devoid Of instinct, needs TO be
confined. designed TO grow up in ignorance,
having no other development than observation
P>'AShoo
ton and experience be without the influence of
the educated portion Of the world? Worse than
heathenism would prevail, cannbalsm, animal
ism. Every man who is at all able owes it TO
God to develop the minds Of his children by
educating thom The moral and intellectual
faculties are so interviewer that the training Of
the ono is the training of both. They 60 to-
gethcr in the body and tho mode of instruction
in all colleges is adapted to their joint develop
ment. Let every citizen who can, and few can
not, educate their sons, and lot this be their
patr!mony. Descended wealth is oftcner q
curse than blessing to tho posscssor, whilo
education can never be curse. It's value may
be TO grcat extent non. utilized, yet it makes
tho man better citizen than he would be
otherwise, while lis possession, should he re-
form, would become very present help in time
of need Those crude suggestions arc made to
our readers in tho hopo that somo vii! profit
thereby and set out TO avail themselves of tho
benefits of Tho excellent college now in opera
tion in tho town of Walhalla.
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