Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-18

ING, SEPTEMBER ls, Il
in coming to be dominant, keeps its
leadership. The material world forever
challenging the physical power of men
always appealing to that which can be
seen, and felt, and weighed, and count.
ed, is continually dragging men back
TO the savagery OF early days. To be
sure men do not now fight each other as
once they did, yet 1t is little less degrad-
ing and brutalizing to be engaged in
perpetual battle with rocks and rivers,
with water and fire, with earth and air,
endeavoring to get the victory over
these dumb things, that they may be
tributary, ministering to their needs &C.
tual or imagined: Indeed il 10 already be.
ginning to show that the fight of science
carried on sel6shly, brilliant though the
results when measured by Q material
standard, has very little humanizing re-.
suit. Hence that which 10 called
progress and is boasted of as civilization
needs yet to be saved and ennobled, a.
much as did the earliest state of men
that our present standard calls barbarism.
This saving work cannot be trusted to
chance. It will not do to let the natural
tendency to evil results. run its course
unchecked and then because of the
magnitude of these results, be driven to
find cure. The tendencies must be
kept from the evil and from the outset
cure, is the law laid upon the world.
How shall this be secured? Always BY
the men that recognize and believe in
world. As matter of fact there has
sor! that is not plainly traceable to the
believers in God. In the nature of
things the time will never come when
they can be excused from this trust, for
education cannot be complete that leaves
out of account knowledge of God the
Author of the mind, and OF all that the
mind can ever be called upon to contem-
plate. The means of study, and the
whole range of study beng found in God.
no words are needed to show the neces.
sity of christian education. lit be not
christian it is not education.
Then in the work Of christianity for the
world, is found the only true method OF
development, the only saving from evils
already incurred, the only safeguard
against fresh ills, and the only field that
offers worthy range for mans ambi.
ton.
No believer in God hesltates to put
the utmost value on the aggressive worl
of Christianity as expressed through
churches and missions. The time hal
now come when the educational forces
must be rallied and the utmost that car
be thought of, be made q reality. Here
totore the church has found the CHIEF
reason for higher christian education il
the necessity of securing an educated
ministry, that the leaders of religioul
thought should be able to stand at the
front Of all thinkers. This has gradually
widened, 80 that others than ministers
are included. But even now, with all the
advance of popular education, ever
the christian world is slow K
see the necessity for any but the thre,
professions, law, medicine and theology
to have literally educated leaders. T,
make it still worse, in preparing for eacl
of these professions, provisions is mad,
for short courses. Such is the eager.
ness to get into practical" work, tina
institutions vie with each other in adver
tising their special courses, each show
ing that it can come nearer than an,
other to the danger line of no prepara
tion at all. The reaction has already sc
in, and it is an encouraging sign that theo
logical seminaries are now holding out q
an inducement, an added year to th
former three years course. in the sam
line is the lifting of the standard o
work in the schools preparing for colleg,
calling practically for another year
time. Yet all of this additional stud,
} both before and after the college coura
is meant to benefit the purely profes
sional man.
But this is not enough. Liber
education belongs to all alike theoret
, cally. Practically it must be given to {
many Of the people beyond the profe
sional circles, that the large majority I
citizens shall have 1t. That the pee
pie are ready for it, is proved by tt
great number Of academies and 90
legea that spring up all over the Ian
True many of them die. Perhaps mo-
of them ought to die. Some of the
, are but travestles on the genuine artiol
! But the existence of q counterfe
, proves that the genuine article has u
disputed value. Recognizing the pow
= that comes with an education, shallo
9 men like Simon Magus think it can
. bought;with money, or what is the sam
reached by short course. and so the
: plan to give q complete education
half the usual time, or even less. Cher
4 istry, astronomy, any science master,
}. in fourteen weeks course. Fren,
I taught in ten lessons. Absolutely &C
J. rect pronunciation of French or Germ,
, given to child of six years in half
:, hour. Complete mastery of the. pial
' in twelve easy lessons, and no instruct
= needed; all done through the postof6c
}. with no interruption to your regul
d business. These are some of the clair
Q set up BY quacks to let us get real
Y good thing without paying for it. I
!. vine worship can be done by the to
Q phone, and prayer by proxy. Now
), the time for christianity.
n In the name OF simple honesty, if 1
II no other reason, We should not only pl
g test against the greed of men, trying
y get something for nothing, but shot
re show that we are ready and willing
e pay in every way full equivalent
it what We get. By doing 1t in the q
70 matter OF education we 60 long Y
9, in casting out the worldly, material, ,co
10 mercial spirit that is paraiy yzing all Il
1t is honorable and aspiring in humani
in What will it psy" is the one t.
y And the "pay" means something tan
ut ble, current with the merchant, q
It. right in hand.
I'd The student, the genuine student
W the only man who is to-day willing