The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-06-09

0Ef GTNA&auu-
| The psbiae aoAcol IS tAe ao,As ~ tie
AaneFseaH rspstlse.
A SEw EEtcxsox.
Firxt-Bccauxe here the soyrr~lsn rits.
zen king is prepared for his empire. As
q great nation among armed nA,icsn. our
conditaon seems defenselass. Our army
Is on paper. Our navy l. dream. Our
coast defenses are nowhere even in sight.
Our investment h Ia the free brains a
free boys. In the past the world has
found this investment an invincible hal-
wark. In the hour Of most serious crisis
In the history Of the nation, out Of the
free brains Of our free citizens there
Isprang full grown the ideas that in day
revolutionize modern naval warfare. IL
the nation builds her foundations deem
enough, let come what will-what.ver
the crisis-there viii arise q new Er.cs-
son in the hour Of trial who viii revolu-
tionize for the Twentieth century the
present system. Universal suffrage makes
universal education a necessity. Here
the untried king can prepare himself for
his great responsibilities. Upon tho citi-
zen rests the crown. There never has
been in the history Of the world king
who ruled a kingdom worthily who did
not prepare himself for his work. The
public school is the training ground Of
the future sovereign.
| Second-In knowledge man finds God
and freedom. To know the truth is 10
know God. All education Is sacred.
All truth Is divine truth. Truth that Is
not sacred therefore is not truth at all.
Attempts to distinguish secular from
religious education is In the last analysis
| an absurdity. An ecclesiastical training
| in certain traditions Is one thing and
real education Is another thing. But all
education that has its foundations in
reality must be founded In truth. II
must therefore be divine and must inn
part the knowledge Of God. Teach TO n
child any truth In any branch of science
or Of knowledge it is divine. History
let him study 1t, and through the CEN
turies he viii hear the tread Of the hosts
of the living God. Through the CEN
turies he will find the footprints of God.
There Is nothing that so overwhelms the
soul of the student of history as the fact
that through all ages there sweeps the
resistless power OF living God, making
for righteousness and truth. To teach
child the history of tho world Is TO
teach child the story Of Gods dealings
with mankind. He who studies science
finds out God. To teach science is to
teach God. The superficial only cry
from their laboratories that they do not
find God. The difficulty Is that with
their knives they have not gone deep
enough. A soldier In the army of Na-
poleon, wounded, was undergoing n
severe operation. The surgeons knife
was cutting dangerously near his heart.
Turning to the surgeon the soldier said,
"If you go little deeper. sir, you'll find
the emperor" Every scientist who cuts
deep enough with his knife will touch
the throbbing heart of the great en-
peror of the universe. He will find the
throbbing life of God.
BETTER THAN RUBIEs.
Teach philosophy and VOC teach God.
Teach man how TO think and you iHing
him in touch with God. When man
learns to think he touches the infinite
and the eternal. Thought IL the witness
of God in man. To rouse thought Is TO
rouse the divine in mans being.
Thought is infinite in sweep. The body
may be chained in dungeon, deprived
of liberty; but over the ramparts of the
prison, defying chains and bars, mans
thought rises to the infinite blue of the
eternal. Our missionaries have learned
this secret at last most thoroughly. VIII
liam Cary, the pioneer OF modern mis-
sions, was deemed fanatic because he
not only said we must take the Gospel
to the heather, but that to make it ef-
ficient we must teach them science. We
must train their minds. It has taken Us
a hundred years to learn this truth, but
we are beginning to learn it. Now we
send not only preachers to preach the
Gospel of Christ to the heathen world,
but along with them we send teachers to
train the mind of the heather to think;
and when they have been ushered into
the possibilities of thought, they have
been led into the outer chamber Of the
holy Of holes, of God himself. To teach
a child to think is to teach the child the
infinite capacities of his immortal being
that links him to God. The man who
knows the truth is free man. He only
is free who knows the truth. Constitu-
ton and statutes and laws, written or
unwritten, do not make men free. Free
dom is from the inside. We are not free
because we have a constitution. Wemade
the constitution because we were free.
Our sister republics in South America
have illustrated this truth over and over
and over again. They have made consti-
tutions and laws, proclaimed Themselves
free again and again, and the wires have
Ecarcely ceased to quiver with the shout
Of their proclamation of freedom, when
we hear that dictator has taken his
seat on the throne. The trouble is that
the people are ignorant. They do not
know. They cannot be free until tber
do know. Ignorance is the fertile soil
of crime and vice and superstition.
KNOWLEDGE Is POWER.
know that men have said education
in itself does not conduce to morality.
That statement Is false In fact and false
in philosophy to the very core. All true
education does not only conduce to
morality, but education is the funda-
mental basis Of moral life. Show me
today on this continent the densest ig-
norance, and viii show you the densest
percentage OF vice. Go to the south to-
day, and among the negroes the average
morality is SO low that 1t falls beyond
the power Of statistics to illustrate. The
disregard Of the marriage relation is
something appalling. There is only one
bright spot in all the darkness of this
sad picture, and these flashes of light
you find and find only around the edu-
cational institutions for the negro in the
Eouth. Here you will find the highest
percentage Of morality TO be found
through the length and breadth of the
end. And the contrast between these
| educational centers and the average ig-
norsnt community is SO great that there
| is no room for discussion as to the causes.
4 ~ IL a.. -.