Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-18
THE CONFERENCE.
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oagh, to patronize AMI enslow our confer

ought to patronize and en'low our confer
enee -enIinaries.
To these Institutions you can send your
eiiildreu with almost the assurance that they
will become converted. thur Methodist
People therefore should lay this matter Of
the support and endowment of these instl-
tutions more at heart a. a patriotic duty AMI
a solemn religion. duty. Educaiion .honld
consist of sound learning anil genuine relig-
ion. Have this combination and you carry
out the primitive liea of the Methodist
church John Wesley was al excellent
German scholar Ii Is Wesleyan to know
anything oH earth that any mar ought TO
know Let your conference seuiinaries
overflow with pupits the coming wear
Rev Bradford 7. Raymond d. ID, presi-
dent Of Wesleyan University. Mi,tdleJowu.
Ct, was introduced and delivered an able
address. In his Introduction he pleasantly
referred to the fact that he was speaking to
many Of the Old alumni of his university
He said in brief Il wish first 10 raise the
question a. 10 the work orr educational
Institutions ART endeavoring 10 do. The
changes that are 10 GENE il the future will
come from new IDEAS. 1t i, the cuisines. 0f
islea- from the standpoint of the L0rl Jesus
hri-l. The work of the church in the line
Of education j. 10 teach men to think from
thc right pOin. Of view. Now 0nr thought
i. welcome everywhere. limited nowhere.
Are sc to educate the yonng men To 10
their thinking or arr they to be left 10 some
one else. Th- importance of this thought
cannot be- ovcre>tmated Education i, TO
teach Young men and Young women to think
Some OF our methods of education are very
superficial. There i an education in the
bu,ines, life our men are leading, but Is
this the only training he needs. The North
American Indian is an educated man but
not bruasily 50 The schools are perform
ing the important part of drawing out the
powers stored in the mind of the child
Nature comes from without, acts on thu
power within and draws il out # teaches
the child To question. Nature Is full of in
t-rruGalion points.
There +, something beyond even Thu,
The moral questions soon present themselve,
and the child GRAVES moral education. Ma
turr never leaves the child until she has
male him a good ply steal, intellectual nora
and Chri,tian child The Christian method
therefore is naturr'- method, The process
OF training should he commenced early by
tn, parents of the child Education j, til,
calling out of the powers in The subject It
he educated Secular education i, an eiu-
cation that pertain, to this life onl, and
shuts out the other life. |, thi, the right
ctucation> No. it makes cranks of then
aud does not broaden them. We want mcr
to look all ways With clear eyes, Tn,
magnitude of the work i, far greater nov
than ever before We are called on It
educate the whole world. because We are the
leader, of civilization
In India there are new systems brin.
founded looking to Il higher order of civil
zation AMI the breaking away from idolatrN
and the rnslayemrnt of Women India is /,
be compelled To see the Lord ,Ic>u, Christ
because these influences are at work there
If the progress Of education in India goe'
on the scholars will be. the Christians. Tn,
Auglu-Saxun race i the great reforming
race of the world. 1t ha> connected itself
with India. and j. bound 10 help it, When
this j. done the important step will be Il
teach them. Religious fife will come ca,.
lily, hut they must be given education. Ii