The record-union., 1898-09-04

my feet again in the old paths There,
for example, is the theory, which be-
came a dogma, of the imputation of
Adams sin against which l have had
virulent animosity ever since l heard
it in youth. Good gracious, haven't
we each enough of our own sins to
carry without importing a cargo of
that old mans meannesses over an
ocean of time thousands of years across
and pitch-forking them on to his un-
fortunate descendants? Adams sin,
1 am growing old, but 1 will undertake
to whip Adam or any other man who
will dare impute to me a going back
on a lovely wife, such as he had in
the way he did. No, l have high re-
spect for Adam on account of the So
ciety he enjoyed; but l don't want any
thing of his particular sin imputed to
me. l respectfully decline the honor"
THE home, the school and the church
are all responsible for the disloyal spirit
to obligations which is Illustrated in
every daily record of the life of our
communities, says the "Watchman''
(Bapt) of Boston. The sanctity of
der orders, that moral law is a reality,
is not enforced as it should be In our
naval academy the student is made 10
feel from the very first that he is under
authority. That sense of obligation to
be loyal to his tasks is drilled into his
inner disposition. But that is the ex-
act contrary to the temper of the aver
age school in which the pupils study
what they like, instead of being held
to prescribed tasks. 1t is worthy of
note that while American colleges have
been making their studies elective,
West Point and Annapolis have been
making their courses more rigid 1t
has become stale jest that American
homes are ruled by the children. And
in the church the sterner side of Chris
uanity. with its exacting ethical de-
mand, is too often yelled or hidden al
together. There is no single quality
IN human life that comes nearer 10 the
very heart of manliness than the un-
bending sense of duty that cannot be
orlbed, or cajoled, or seduced. If the
nome, the school and the church do not
reinforce that, they fail in their mis-
sion"
one of the causes assigned for the
failure of church members To suunOr+
church colleges is that colleges under
the auspices of the church are popu-
larry regarded as training schools for
semlnaries and the priesthood, and that
parents who would not object to nav
ing their sons brought under moder-
ate amount of religious Influences are
too ambitious of their worldly success
10 FISK them at college where they
might be induced to abandon a lucra
tive career for the underpaid ministry
The "Churchman" P. Ed of New York
does not regard the cause assigned as
especially potent, but it adds: In 50
lar as 1t does affect the relations OF
church people to the institutions thew
are more or less bound in honor to SUD
port, 1t can only be combated by dis
seminatlnS reliable information about
church colleges, and by the suppression
OF all undue prOselyting influences in
the colleges themselves If a manly
Christian tone is preserved in the class
room, IN the dormitory, in the athletic
field, it will show itself in the charac-
ters OF the students turned out bv the
college; and men in the outside world
whether they be churchmen or not will
De gIad to have their sons brought un.
der such Wholesome influences. If un.
DER these circumstances the youth is
leo TO devote himself to the highest OF
all callings, few parents will dare f
oppose his wishes, or will even desire
to do it.