Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-09
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

| A conference on the -Four Pillars OF
Civilization y was held by the Sacramento
| Educational Institute at the Metropolitan
| Theater last evening. The addresses were
listened to by very large and Intelligent
audience. Felix Tracy, President OF the
Institute, presided, and the First Arsiilery
band furnished music for the occasion. The
STAGE was neatly decorated with flags and
floral collections. The addresses were By
Rev. I. L. Dwinell, D. D.. on 1.-The Rela-
tion of Religion to Civilization by Sena-
| for Grove L. johnson, on "Govern-
! ment and Law" by Senator W. A.
Cheney. on the place Of Labor in
Civilization" and by Superintendent of
Public Instruction f. NJ. Campbell,
on Education" All the addresses were
received with profound attention, and evil
IDENTIFY by earnest and thoughtful minds.
Applause greeted each speaker on being in
troduced, and at the conclusion of his essay,
while some of them drew applause irterme-
diate with their addresses. The essays were
each limited to thirty minutes in delivery,
and being on subjects of such breadth and
depth, were, of necessity, compact, concise
and confined largely to logical propositions,
little opportunity being. given for enlarge
ment in the way of illustration or elaboration
of argument. Nevertheless the conference
partooE somewhat of the nature of debate,
not as between antagonists, but as between
four claims to prominence in the schemes OF
civilization.
DR.. Dwinell treated of religion latter glanc-
ing at it historically, az an influence IN
civilization as promoting the natural equality
of men, their rights before the law ard God.
and as an incentive to education. He held
it to be in ali ages aud lands leading
principle in shaping, not only the public
thought, but the structural texture and on
goings of society.
Mr.. johnson treated of labor in its unedu-
Gated form, Influenced by religion, but per-
fected by education, the three making up gov
eminent, and the DEGREES of which are known
as law. He pointed to the growth of govern
ment as manifest in the needs of men in
various relations, and also to the necessity for
firm and good governments.
Mr.. Cheney treated of labor as in its high
est development in this age, and placed it in
the foremost rank in all true schemes of civ
ilization. It had remained for the horny
handed Puritan workers, with their religion
in one hand and their faith in their ability to
govern their band in the other, TO land on
Americas shores and lay the foundations of
a nation which moves on to the highest civil
cation.
Mr.. Campbell spoke of education as the
true liberty. Education is not merely
to refine and polish, but to make
men in the truest sense, to set them
free, not from the physical restraints of
others, but from the impediments that come
from within. There is, he thought. but one
free man on the planet and he is the intelli-
gent, self-controlled man, and to make such
is the office of educational systems.
These mere texts will serve to indicate to
some slight extent the current of thought
pursued by each speaker, and should increase
the desire to read the full essays, which will
appear at length in this journal on the 18th
instant,