The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-06-09

others. | believe i'm practical education.
PRACTICAL education means that equip
ment that will enable one in some way
to make stronger and better those they
influence. This usefulness of which ]
speak is the truest philosophy. but it is
Il lesson which many of our college bred
men have failed TO learn, and because of
that failure we find the cause of higher
education combatted on every hand.
whereas il should be praised by every
mouth. There has come out of our
colleges class of persons who have not
been absorbed with desire to he help
full to Others, and by a natural retributive
justice they have become pessimists.
Because the world did not recognize
them as IFS pets, and empty in their laps
the horn of plenty. they have become
sour and gloomy, and the busy, blinded
world have charged up their folly to
college education. But when the
knowledge here acquired is used in
helping others into clearer light. it will
continue to be a source of great pleasure
to you. 1t will broaden your charity,
open your soul TO a richer enjoyment.
and cause the light of truth to settle
down over you in "A halo of gladdest
| fruition. l cannot too urgently press
this point. My own experience has
taught me that eXclusiveness is the bane
of college-bred men. / have known
them to close their lives to those of their
own homes, and become dignified.
polite but sensitive drones. No educated
person has any right to such folly. Its
cure is activity in the use of our superior
gifts-in inspiring Others into nobler
things. Solomon was such pessimist
as this: Though great was his wisdom.
he closed the review of earthly things
with the croakings of gloomy inertia /:
Vanity of vanities: all is vanity And
the closing words of Thackery's we'll
known novel is an echo of the same
pessimism: 'J'dnitus rdnitat,tm. But
st. Paul was q scholar whose desire to
be useful made him the optimist in
spired to hope all things. believe all
things, endure all things. III you would
enjoy your scholarship, If you would
rise higher and higher in true learning.
you must remember that the secret of
all earthly enjoyment is consecrated
helpfulness.
"A calm more awful il than storm;
Beware of Gains In any form
This life means action.
But lest | have led you to suspect
that would have you to become men
in order to be useful, begin at once to
suggest wherein think your true Use
fulness is to be found. / like womanly
women, and IA manly man, but vice
versa l dislike. | regret the restless
spirit. manifest ut times in harsh ex-
pressions toward the men, that would
make all things secular the business of
men and women alike. 1t is a merce-
nary idea, and means "A loss to the
whole race when once put into full
operation. | have the kindest feelings
towards those women who have felt
compelled, in order to win respectable
livelihood, to go forth into secular EN-
ployments. So long as they have my
sympathy and enlist my active interest
and cooperation they are the victims of
circumstances. God bless them; |
would not put straw in their way.
But, in all candor, lose respect for the
woman that would voluntarily abandon
the holy sanctuary of home to gambol
on this moor. 1t is an old expression,
so old. and so often repeated, as TO
become trite and commonplace, that as
are the homes so is the nation; but
may he permitted to say, after an active
experience i'll secular matters, from
childhood, on the farm, as a teacher, at
the editors desk. at the bar, and on the
hustings in the political campaigns, it
is my opinion that the home and the
church are the only institutions scarcely
worth preserving. They are the only
places know of that build up the true
man. Sometimes they fail to do so.
Outside you sometimes get manifesto
tions of true manliness, but they are
phenomena of the character that was
built and sanctified here. Just in pro-
portlon as you uestr0y tne Sacreuhess Oh
that holy place called nome, you give
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