The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-06
Gods free air and sunshine. Such
thinking will make him wiser than any
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textbooks or lectures. If he will now,
standing on what his teachers have
taught him, look above it-come into
| communion with God as he has revealed
himself in his works and his word-he
will utilize his college culture as be
| could not in Office or school house. That
culture is excellent as far as it goes; but
it must be supplemented by reflection,
and by the training of the character in
the duties of life. John Randolph once
said: we all have two educationsi one
that we obtain from others; another,
and the most important, that ne secure
for ourselves. 1t is the latter that deter.
mines our characters, our success in life,
and our destiny hereafter"
"But," cried Jinkins, "will it pay for a
boy who has gone through college to
work on a farm? Johns education has
cost thousands of dollars, and he ought
to make something by it,
"By making something you mean max
ing money. That is the way We Ameri.
cans reason. We are always asking how
much money there is in it. But money
is not the only thing worth living for.
The man who is mere money.getter is
the worst of all failures in our modern
civilization. He ia sponge that petri.
fes as fast as it is.filled. He has cold,
metallic intellect, metallic conscience,
and metallic heart. For goodness sake,
don't try to shrivel John up to a cent
percent ideal of manhood. Let him
believe that the true riches are within
that q good man is worth more than a
good bank account. If he makes living
and grows wiser every day, he will be
happier than if he we're amassing a for
tune and. starving his soul. I tell you,
Jinkins, ne don't want all the education
centered in the towns and cities; We
need it on the farms. Let us cultivate
our minds and hearts as carefully as we
cultivate fields and orchards, and ne will
have the noblest population the world
has ever seen. But il we encourage the
idea that as soon as young man knows
any more than the district school can
teach he is too smart to be farmer, We
degrade that element in the land on
which its true prosperity depends. If I
had as many sons as the patriarch Jacob,
and expected them all to be farmers, |
would send them all to college, if I could.
True learning-learning sought and
loved for its own sake-prcpares man
to be successful and happy in any sphere.
It would be worth all that it costs if its
possesscr had to be day laborer. But
on farm it may be source of profit, as
we'll as enjoyment. Tell John to show
his neighbors that education don't make
man too proud to work. Tell him
human life began with two great teachers
Mature and God--and that if he would
be perfect they will help him. Tell him
to show US that he is the better farmer
because he has been trained to observe
and to think. Above all, tell him to
rejoice that he does not have to depend
on clients, or patients, or the whims Of
school directors, for his bread, but
receives it directly from God. I do not
believe there is any nobler position for q
man than that of a cultured and devout
tiller of the soil.
~ reckon you are right, end. I'll send
John over 20 talk With you."-Ssnes
Smith in Herald and Presbyter.