The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-23

more enabling the mission the fercer, sub
tier were the temptations. Hence the
| glamour and cloudiness over this destiny
will be getting wealth for the mere getting, 8
sake, and not for moneys rightful uses.
This peril is worth moments pause. 1t is
this that cuts of many promising young
him with merely the rudiments obtained in
the public schools, (good but set rudi-
| ments.) He limits his super structure to a
most meager foundation, and some other
less likely lad takes up his running. Too
often the hopes and expectations which
once filled the parents heart have faded
away in the prosaic drudgery of a humdrum
life and the parent helps belle the prophecy
| once almost divine.
l wish the youth of this community could
witness the army of stalwart, graceful, stu
dious spirits at Princeton. Harvard, Yale,
Cornell, Ann Arbor, John Hopkins. Wash
ington, Lafayette, Hampden, Sydney,
Wellesley, Vassar, Amherst, Williams, Lake
Forest. wish there could be a crusade of
these superb Fellows of both sexes through
be an encampment on this valley Git would
take this valley to hold that army one
week OF association with that strong
limbed, happy hearted. high spirited army
of the best of this natlon-well, there
would be a college planned in this city be-
fore the camp broke up. And that college
would be famous before you should die.
It may have been prophetic the words !
heard uttered on the cars. when was re-
turning to become your minister. In con-
this state he volunteered this statement:
''There is no reason why Montana should
not have as fine educational facilities as
Philadelphia" Coming from the one it did
make bold this morning to quote these
words of MIR. Marcus DAILY as simply pro-
you that it stimulated belief that was then
in process; belief in the glad, bright near
and best future of this great state. And
why not? This state of Montana is outlin..
ing a mighty prophecy which God will
hasten or retard, not according to some in
scrutable sovereign wilfulness, but in keep
ing with our best purposes and energies.
Do not lay the failure to His sovereign
will but to our sovereign indifference.
The land is rich within and without,
mines bespeak the resources along one line.
This state will be infuential; it had too
many brave pioneers to fail of an impress.
1t will be broadly. American, because here
more than any other new state is the popu-
lation complex. Here is the courteous
purposed from the middle states
along with the energetic westerner,
who have driven their stakes
side by side with the best from across the
sea, Every old line of demarcation will
| fade as the whole blends and fuses in one
peculiar people. Every quality that is good
is cast into the crucible while g blessed
| Christianity awaits to sublimate the whole
and leave only high values.
| Montana must then be to the fore with a
brave high purpose, under the Lord Jesus
Christ-liberaliy endowed and literally en-
dorsed i'll the one thing of Christian educa-
ton Of a higher Christian educator, such
as has been the glory of tho older states and
of the generation that gave US birth. 1t
can be done! aud brought to point of high
| ff> py0k, sho11
mand the admiration if not envy of less
| fortunate commemorative. l believe it was
almost an accident that discovered that this
state could raise better horses than else
where. The nutritious grasses and pure
mountain air have proven wonderfully help
full in giving stamina. and this makes win
| ners. Do you know this state can grow
more Observation-Disclosures of life's victors
in the higher courses, and for nobler
purses? At least be as shrewed and cir
youth, as men are in knowing worth in the
lower animal. Let us believe in the Monta-
ma youngsters-and help the best from be-
ing mere plodders.
We are apt to say. with quiet sense of
reproach at the old stiff, stalwart genera
not die with the fathers thereby tacitly
Implying that we,. too, ''know thing or
, two.'' Well We'll! Peace to their ashes!
God De - ed that He did not allow all of
| WlsuOlu WA . Will our HuCeStOTS. ana YET
: it sometimes happens, you know, that an
ancestor virtues and strongest, best quail
, tiles have perverse habit of skipping a
generation and coming up Unexpectedly, in
oldtlme force, i'll a remote branch of de-
scent. Moral--We have to prove the fact
that wisdom did not die with the fathers.
We have to prove that wisdom has been
inherited by us in right of descent from a
noble stock by the right use we make of
our inheritance. Our fathers thought
much of this higher Christian education.
They valued good name IN commerce.
They were as fairly successful, though not
SO hazardous. They served their day and
generation with equal thoughts Godward
and MAYNARD: They lived with one great
purpose in view--to rear up children to
noblest standards. They laid the broadcast
foundations ever laid in the land,
as seen at Princeton. Harvard,
Yale, Washington ana Jefferson, Phillips
Andover and Phillip Exeter. Colleges and
academies that have yielded the best fruits
of the centuries. produced the mightiest in
fluences and advantages we enjo to-day, or
of all that comes into our life.
We have task to attempt to improve on
that stock, even with all our boosted
resources.
But now turning from the fathers of the
past to the children of to-day, it is of
weightier moment to raise the ancient
1 query, What manner of child shall this
Il be!" 10 be as the pSalmlst Wlsher, THAT
our sons may be as plants, grown up in
their youth, and our daughters may be as
corner stones. polished after the similitude
of a palace"
i 1t is a profound satisfaction to give you
in full the following words from one of the
most successful educators of the most fam
GUS academy in the land, and in many ways
in the world. This from DR.. c. F. p. Ban
croft, of Phillips Andover academy, in his
contribution for this especial occasion.
"My Dear Brother:-lt is very agreea le
to me to contribute to the Academy Day
in your church, for have had good dea
> to do with this form of organization, anc
with this grade Of instruction, and rejoic,
greatly in the revival of the academy idea
i. here in the east and the intro duction ant
Q spread of the idea in the west.
n 1.-THE object of the academ is to brin,
+ together the promising and ambitious
Q youth who desire to improve themselves il
a knowledge, self-reliance, mental. social ant
Q religious discipline. The academy aims t.
It give a wider education than can be secured
in the more elementary schools: to prepar,
n some of its pupils (the more the better) TO
# colleges and universities: to give chiefly b,
r means of education in the various branches
is taught. that power to do things, to organic
10 and lead in worldly enterprises, to create
rs and direct public sentiment, which is need
it ed in every well-ordered community; il
le short, the work of the academy is to brin
re forward well-equipped men and womel