The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-02
BISHOP WILSON 5 ADDRESS.

| Rishop A. W. Wilson Of Baltimore
spoke before the Christian teachers
| Assembly in Littleton last week on
| Christian Education, and his address
was we'll timed He said that with
many Christian education l. inferior
and inadequate to the notion Of educa-
ton itself. With them il Is rather
conformity to custom than to the
proner uses Of education. Education
means TO many examining OF sorne
kind Of knowledge. They don't see
where Christian education comes II.
They think that education means some
college curriculum without regard TO
the moral side OF the question. There
is much apathy and indifference among
the people to the efforts OF those who
wish to bring education and religion
together.
Our fathers were simple minded,
STRAIGHTFORWARD men, and education
meant to them the interests OF souls
with reference to the highest and best
part Of nature. In olden times every
minister was teacher. Certain matters
of education we're wholly in the hands
Of the ministers.
The division between laymen and
preachers has not worked very we'll.
Lavmen may carry on the work OF
schools without special attention to the
Christian features of education, but the
, minister must not obligate himself save
to both. So we get confused.
, We face Romanism on the one hand,
wishing to exclude the Bible, and inf
deity on the other, which seeks to put
r the whole idea of Christianity out OF
education and leave it to later years Of
: life.
If YOU wish to make men, real men,
r it is altogether another question from
STUDYING the distant stars, their sizes,
&c. The first business of education Is
r to make men and women. We can't
:. tell what grade Of manhood and woman
:. hood will result in after years. But It
$ is the business of education to train
the mind for the best possible life.
: 1t was boasted to Douglas Jerrold
that certain man knew 81 different
d languages. yes, replied Jerrold; "but
:. he never said a sensible thing In a sin
a gle one of them
The speaker here referred to what he
; observed in travelling in the East He
:. said boys speak English, German
V Spanish, &C., without ever having look
) ed INTO hook but il did not make
them any better. Il lost respect" he
K said. "for mere language"
i, Men may speak many language;
J. without putting into them any common
h sense. Language alone does not make
, men. Education wants to find what
4 men can do, and seeks to bring ou
these capacities. Said the speaker
!, GLOW to do this and make men anC
@ women such as you want and leave on
Christian development is more than
~ can understand
10 An educated man not rellglOusl
trained is hrrtful to a community
II The worst things do not lie on the top
,s The most subtle in the human life art
the most pernicious. The devil IS thf
a. keenest parsonage this side the throne
~ Nothing is truer than that nothing il
true out Of Christ. Christianity ha
7 taken charge of the capacity Of man a
" completely as of his mind and will.
Repentance means change Of mln(
T. not simply sorrow for sin. 1t is
complete reversal OF mans attitud,
!, towards all things, and this constitute
:, conversion. Repentance does not toucI
=. ones feelings and conscience only, bu
his innermost thoughts. Otherwis'
it is deceptive. Did Christ say repen
= because of the danger of hell? No
:, He said repent because the kingdom
of God was at hand and it was necessar,
, to repent in order to see it. When yol
!; preach you preach to men who cal
:, think.
II We hear much talk about ''lreedon
vs Of thought" The gospel comes Will
r Its demands upon the conscience. Tn
NJ first effect of Christianity upon th
human mind is to free it from super
stitlon and falsehood and leaye it fire.
to pursue its investigations on RICH
lines Scientific stigatiOn on wrOn,
:, lines brings wrong results, howeve
scientific the investigation. Christian
ity takes falsehood out Of the way.
20 There Is great talk III the world abou
* the credulity of Christianity It /
alleged that Christianity is narrow
ID But outside of Christianity there is n
antagonism to faIsehood in this world
10 The gospel asserts truth and will hea
at nothing but truth. ! lie has no par
ne in the gospel. 1t VIII not do anything