The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-10-10
MAN MUST THINK.
PRESIDENT J. L. CROWELL'S
STRONG PLEh FOR THE
EDUCATION OF BOYS
AND GIRLS
Every Soul Must Rise Higher To-
ward God or Sink Lower To-
ward the Devil.

A PLAN TO GIVE THE CHILD A
START THE GREAT PRO
VINCE OF THE MOTHER.
On Sunday, the 10Th ult., Dr.
Crowell, President of Trinity |
College, delivered a strong lee
ture at Keener's Chapel, III this
county, for the education of our
boys and girls. No thinking
parent present could fail 10 be
deeply impressed and put to
thinking as regards his duties
to his children who are growing
up to be ignorant and useless or
educated and useful according
to their training. He said:
Food, raiment and shelter are
all the things that the body of
human being needs. But the
soul has very different set of
needs of lis own. The needs of
the body are material; those of
the soul are spiritual. The ma
terial wants are supplied out of
the earth, the sJa and the sky,
that is, out of the world of ma
ture around, above and under us.
The spiritual wants are suppl
ed out of the spiritual world
within us. AS we dig into the
earth, search in the sea or seek
the free breath of heaven to
keep the body alive; 50 we have
to search in the soul TO develop
it's rich treasures of affection, its
trdths Of thOughtaud its strength
Of will to supply the soul with
what will not only keep it alive,
but cause it to grow into the
} full stature Of spiritual man
hood and womanhood. Just as
, by commerce also the different
, parts of the world supply each
other with what the body needs,
so by the intercourse of mind
with mind does the soul get
5 " hat it needs. The child in its
J years at home feeds and clothes,
! it's soul with the thoughts, the
feelings and the purposes which
it's mother and others give it.
;. These are food to its soul-life,
i But when it grows up to ripper
years it need other food; it calls
4 for more than the home can give
: it and the school comes to an
:, swer it's needs. When its needs
n can no longer be supplied al
o home or in the school it steps
n out to take it's place in the great
world of citizenship in which
e are to be found the fields for the
e aspirations which the home ha:
J. guarded and the school quicken
q ed into life but which neither
o can satisfy. If man were onl!
y an animal lie would find con
n tentment in having the mer'
l. wants of the body satisfied, lik'
7, the OK jn the pasture. But Ii
y has a spirit. In that he is EN-
-e dorsed with the attributes of
is God.
i, The aspirations-a soul hav
10 ing it's destiny in its own hands
lg will lead it in one Or two di
rections, lead it higher to be
1t come like God Or lower to be
ID come live a devil. No othe
le routes are open. no other Lossi
10 bilities exist for human ma
le ture; no other inevitable desti
N nies await it: "Godliness will
a contentment is great gain," i
is Paul's theory Of life. To hir
j. it was sufficient for the body t
oil have food and Iainent. Al
i'll that man could gain over an
in above that was to be devoted t
Godliness, which means Goo
It. likeness, to the service of th
st spirit in making it more lik
,h God.
I'd There are two other tbeOrie
it of life: one is to gain the whol
a world for the body and lose Uh
,r- soul. The other is to gain jul
"a as much of the world for tt
ms body as is possible without 10
d. ing the soul; o: to do the vel
nk least that is thought necessar
in to save the soul and devote d
X, the larger balance of the energ
u we have to gain as much OF tt
ep world as possible.
US Paul's theory is the only rig
ill one-enough of the material
no satisfy the needs Of the boo
us and the balance to be devote
is to the development Of the spil
we to u higher and nobler life. M
or terial comfort may be increase
he but it must be only so far as
We will contribute directly to he
an man to live in the spirit. NJ
oer was not made only to toll;
must think: that is his divi
be prerogative, his imperishat
lis right. The man that never ;
he serts this right by exercising it
or doomed to sink toward the ley
nld of the OK and the ass, to Co
he pete with mere brute force
est be a mere machine.
The boy of to day, who III