Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-06-18
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of the skepticism that creeps so

of the skepticism that creeps so
largely, per force OF circumstances,
into our non-sectarian institutions;
in view of the style of so-calfed
sermons(?)-"Save the mark
that are sometimes delivered be.
fore their students, the Christian
College has a missionary calling
even among its fellows. Gradu-
ates from religious institutions
must long remain "the salt of the |
earth" IN this matter of moral
education. There is an onward
step of capitalization, a dawning
era of the highest organization TO,
which the church must furnish
the material. Modern liberalism,
with no newer ideas than those OF
Lucretius or Renan prates loudly
about the crash of creeds and the
onward sweep of the world to that
perfect state of believe-nothing or
believe-anything; but it shuts its
eyes to the great fact that the
chaos of inspiration, of science and
of sociology lies behind us and not
in front. Evolution, material,
moral and religious, guided by the
hand of God, has been always and
must be always from protoplasm to
vertebrate. The veriest monad is
a normal monad both in position
and environment though topsy-
turvy. In fact you can no more
tell the right side of mass OF
jelly cells, than you can the right
side of a sphere, but the highest
type of life's onward march has an
upright spinal column.
Believe me, young men, when l
tell you that likewise the worlds
progress in every department lies
in the further development of sys-
tematic organization, and in the di-
rection of, and not away from, the
development and maintenance of
doctrine. Creeds will change and
creeds should change, but We
should no more despise them than
we should curse the sickle when
we see the modern mower, or re-
ject the mower when We remember
the scythe. 1t is an old adage that
ga poor workman quarrels with
his tools' and a modern truism
that he who handles no tools does
little work. There is no life with
out ideals, and creed is the crys-
talization of an ideal. Then, aside
from conversion, the church
schools have thrown on them along
with other church efforts, the work
of indoctrinating and spirituallzlng
the students of the land, and the
duty of fostering elements out of
which character may crystalize
with such rock-iike solidity that
men shall be walled out of, instead
of walled into prison. Let me em-
phaslze the fact that our intellec-
tual culture is striding rapidly by
us. The time was when our pris-
ons were filled largely with the il
literate, but to-day in Jefferson or
Joliet the high school scholar may
peg boots along side of the chicken
thief, and the stage robber of the
west can show diploma as we'll as
"Winchester."
Forty years ago or more the ell
der Beecher wrote: "We must
educate, we must educate or we
must perish by our own prosperity;
but to-day we must spir1tualize.
we must indoctrinate, or we shall
perish by our intellectually. At
this stage of our progress, sir, as it
ever should have been, no mans
curriculum can be complete till he
has learned to respect himself, love
his brother and honor his Goo, and
this is the teaching Of the Church
of Christ. In an age when the
burglar IS a physicist, and the
bomb -thrower a chemist: when the
gambler is a statesman and the
saloon-keeper a politician; when
the forger is lawyer, and the de-
faulter a diplomat, in the day when
our public institutions do nothing
more than develop half the man,
the cause of Christian education
should rise like the tower of Eifel
in the Importance of its mission.
Foreign Visitor-s'Does it cost
much to live in New York?n
Host-"No, sir, it doesn't cost