Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-05-24

suitable and incompatible habitat,
when it leaps forth to the boundless
realm of the infinite where capacity for
development is unconfined and where
the environment is perfect.
In the education ones self, coupled
with the right growth of the soul, may
be found the best representation of
God working in man and man working
with God That is why this business of
Education-the education of our chill
dren and our pupils, or the education
of ourselves-is so beautiful. 1t is the
effort of the parent or the teacher or
the person himself to restore Gods i'm
age, uor perhaps better, to develop
Gods image in ourselves or in our
children. Where is any higher duty?
Where is any better theology?
The growth of the soul may be slow,
tedious. and mysterious, but is heaven
ward. nevertheless, if it is earnest. pro-
gressive and sincere.
Susan Colridge has given us few
Hines that will be instructive at this
juncture:
''How does the soul grow? not I'll in a
NOW it may lose ground and now it may
win it;
NOW it resolves. and again the wind
faileth:
NOW it rejoiceth, and now it bewaileth;
NOW its hopes fructify, then they are
blighted;
NOW it walks sunnily, now gropes be-
nighted:
Fed by encouragement, taught by dis
aStor.
SO it goes forward, now slower, now
faster,
Till all the pain past and failures
made whole,
It is full grown, and the Lord rules the
SOUL -
ton realized. We have undertaken TO
BE something by comprehending the
duty we owe to ourselves in the culti-
walton of our immortal powers and in
the growth of our own immortal souls.
But [ must not leave this point without
laying heavily upon the parents pres
ent the charge which comes to them as
the guardians of the immortal powers.
What parent knows but that wrapped
up in the capability of his or her child
may be the potentialities of
''Some village Hampden," or
''Some mute ingloriOus Milton. =
A fearful responsibility to be a pa
rent. to be God S agent in working out
the high destinies of the human soul.
But the full grown soul and the cultur-
ed mind have social and civic value
that must not be overlooked here. Such
development as [ have tried to suggest
makes of its pOssessOr useful and
helpful member of society and a good
citizen. Hence l urge most emphatic
ally that the best protection against
social disorder and anarchy is educa-
ton. True enough. the socialist and
anarchist are often educated-in some
sort of fashion.
But it is not the education that our
three-fold natures require. We are al
one and the same time mental. mora,
and physical beings, and any education
which does not recognize this is not
real education.
1t is what might properly be called a
one-sided development. To be truly
educated one must be trained to com
prehend and obey the great laws o.
life, the laws of nature. the laws Of
society and the laws of God. He must
be trained into the great bedrock
principle couched in Paul's declaration
on Mars Hill, viz: God our father
man our brother
ANY education which comes short OF
this, it matters not how splendidly i
may seem to shine out, nor how pol
ished its possessor may appear to be
tends only to dwarf, to belittle our owl
natures. to wrong our fellow-man. anC
to dishonor our God. The right sort o
education, therefore, is the indiSpensa
BILE introduction to a healthy life;
HE that blesses society, protects anC
i = c%a% 10 crIC, Enl
And so the right discharge of the duty
we owe to ourselves, to our fellow-man
and to the State involves the right sor
of education. Hence, the parent O
guardian who processes to have th'
best interests of society, and the pre-
| lection and perpetulty of the State a
| heart. must educate the children com
mitted to his care, or he valves tn
very first injunction of duty, and thu
proves himself false to the great trus
committed to his keeping
So important is this training. and 81
| bound up is it with the fortunes an,
every religious denomination of tn
world maintains and encourage
schools and colleges, So absolutel,
necessary has it been found to be in tn
production of good citizenship tha
every civilized state on the globe ha
made education its first business.
The state has found, too, that for it
own safety it must not leave the edu
cation of future citizens to tb
whims and Indifference, or inabilit
! of the parent, but comes in with it
own powerful arm and ineXhaustibl
resources to see to it that the youth c
| the laad are educated. Therefore
North Carolina has founded and is fos
tering system of public schools, al
important factor of which is the Nor
NAL schools of the state. The Norma
school is, when properly fostered. tn
best representation of the progress c
the state. The Normal school suggests
too, that the state means not only t
educate her children, but to educat
them in the right way, and thus
train them truly, by giving specia
preparation to those who are to be tn
children instructors and exemplars
| The Normal school, thens-. should b
the great source Of light in the state
the head fountains of truth and right
eousness. We are, therefore. greatl
interested. Mr.. Principal, in the wor
you are doing, because yon are trair
ing teachers for the state. You are pre-
pairing those who are to mould tn
character of the rising negro manhoo
and womanhood. Therefore,
"Our hearts, our hopes, are all wit
thee,
Our,hearts our hopes, our prayers, ou
tears,
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee, all with thee.
But have not forgotten that in th
discussion of the theology of life, tn
divinity in life, that [ am speakin
more directly to the students, to th
young men and women who have bee
in attendance on this institution.
My young friends, it is a great thin
, to live good life; it is by far the grea