Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-02-24
Last Friday Nights Lecture in
the College Chapel by Prof. J. r.

AAAOys
Although the Professor said he would not
name his subject, yet his treatment of 1t was SO
lucid that each one Of the hearers could give It
name. Tho writer would formulate it thus:
''Ihe relation of the moral sense (consconce) to
tho intellectual faculties and tho necessity of
moral culture to proper intellectual training"
lilo showed that the conscience is ignored to
great extent by many who undertake the work
of education and the whole stress laid on the
purely mental training, and the consequence is
the exaltation of The mind over The conscience.
Ihe natural result is pure reason, instead of
the moral principle, becomes the guide of life.
Man is in dangerous condition when The dis
eoYeries of reason, the mere product of the
understanding, becomes the law Of action
instead of the righteous rule, tho principles OF
which lie imbeded in his moral nature. Bva
cultivated shrewduess of the intellect he ii OF no
loss to find reasons to justify him in any course
no may propose TO himself. The Creator gave
us the intellect not to govern but to be qoverned
by the moral sense or conscience. Tho reason
so many receiving the highest mental training
are fruitful in nothing good to themselves or
others is that in their education the conscience
nus oeen neglected and IN undue magnfcation
given to the intellect. All the exercises which
The student must undergo in the process of
education ought to be kept continually under
the direction and control of conscience. In this
way diligence and perseverance in study become
conscientious duty. In keeping tho conscience
OF the student on the throne and making It
regulate his whole conduct in preparing and
reoiting his lessons lies the success of the
teacher. AS an illustration of this the case of
DR.. Moses Waddell was cited. In his celebrated
school in Abbeville county many great and rood
men received their training When student
entered this school the first effort of tho Doctor
was to get control of the young mans conscience.
not by parading before the school n long list Of
rules, but by bringing few simple truths to
bear on the conscience. Thus on fret ac-
quaintance, the most favorable time for impress
sions, he got hold Of The Students conscienoe
and he was careful never by word or act of his
to let 60 this hold, and thus he educated with
signal success.
IN the next place IL was shown that the
greatest incentivesto to diligent application on the
part OF students are brought to bear on them
through the channel of The moral sense. prizes
tho youthful mind are ruinous in their tendency.
They afford temporary stmulant 10 the mental
energies, but oil such motives to study soon lose
their influence and then the mind is in danger
OF sinking down into hopeless apathy or giving
itself up 10 some ruinous pursuit The grent
desideratum is the student should be actuatea in
his studies by motiveo that shall control his
after life. Let this motive power come from
fountains that are liable to dry up and when the
Stream ceases to flow the mind is left without
propelling force and rusts out by inaotion. But
let the stream that fills the pier head issue from
the eternal eprng Of mans moral nature. n
stream which no seasons Of drought can ever
exhaust, then there will be no stopping place
for the mind. Let the moving force DO directed
and graduated by the unerrng principles Of
right and there will be 4 continual progression
and assimilation Of the mind to the truth until
1t reaches the grand and glorious center of all
that Is true, beautiful and good, the everlasting
word the eternal Logos, the sum and substance
of all morality and truth.