The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-21

white man, tho lndian ano tue nesto
Other persons keeping that old saw y
mind have ut much pains and by niauy
sacrifices gone TO work to give their chill
! | dren not little but much learning. Bu
much learning unintluenced BY rlsii
moral sense Is far more dangerous thnf
FOR the general welfare. II Is not as y,il-
gar and coarse, but II Is more dangerous
by very reason OF its refinement and cl'l-
: | furc. So II has come to pass In the ludg.
mcnt OF the most competent that sound
education must In these days include a
moral sense, a good conscience, In ofter
to meet and answer the needs OF the nour-
l am not a believer In metempsychosis
and have no notion that every few hundred
or few thousand years our departed spirits
are reborn In some other body and i've
here again the life OF the past. Nor do
know that there are asylums for the m
sane in the regions of the dead where such
unbalanced minds are left until they shalt
return to Garth under some other na'ue
I and In some other body In accordance With
tho before mentioned doctrine OF melcn-
bsychusis. But II both these things ffnDd
happen to be true, one, In looking over the
d0ltish finds to which men and women are
daily committing themselves as If there
were nothing sensible they could lind 10
do In the whole realm OF nature, would be
tempted to think that this was the golden
age for the rehabilitation Of a wonderfully
OF the distant past. Men and women are
going daft after every sort OF folly under
| the sun They are in every conceivable
| and inconceivable attire riding hobbies Of
| every possible variety. They aie learning
to spout tragedy in the most divcrting
fashion. and are taking lessons in d dozen
| foolish arts that they may make lslng
| by teaching others how to do the same
| USELESS things, They are trying to r.
| deem q fanntical superstitution from iano-
rance by calling II by high sounding and
| learned name. They are practieiag the
| most material sort Of wicked doviltry under
cover of the most lmma terial OF natnos--
degrading the whole world of spirits by
pretending that departed spirit has moth
ing better to do In the other world than
TO hold itself at the beck and call cf
vulgar trickster and assist in giving peeps
into that other world at so much peep"
They arc gone wild to figure In public.
be in the public eye. be seen and known
of men, get their names and pictures In
the papers. o tempori, o moresl
They are setting their heart on money
aud are anxious to heap up riches TO
themselves, forgetting or repudaiing the
divine sentiment which looks upon the
love of money as the root OF many sorts
OF evil. A venerable and blunt preacher
once told his people that the hcaping up
OF money was not only wicked but useless.
because II is mo good anywhere but here.
He told them that they might love money
ever SO much aud heap u up ever so
high but the time would come when they
must surely 20 away and leave 1t he
hind. adding the bitter word, You can NOT
take IL with you: but II YOU could II would
melt In ten minutes after YOU arrived.
In view OF The wicked foiies and The
wiokedly selfish misuse of Gods good
proyidences II may be successfully aud
caHily maintained that q sound educational
equipment for life today must include u
cultivated mind and a sound and strong
moral senBe.
Mere so now than ever before men ana
women are eating raYenously OF the tree
OF knowledge OF good and evil, drinking
copiou3ly of the waters of the nieliln
spring, and coming TO II dangerous emi-
nencc, whore they can maintain thcmi-
selves only by tho strength supplied IS
cultivated and victorious moral sense.
We may say that TO know good and evll
was a necessary knowledge II mankind
was ever To make their way out ol the
poisonous sWanps and tangled thickets OF
The evil found in this sinful world, and
halievc that the fall" OF man was TALL
upwards" We may think of the fall in
this way II wo Will. But the inspired
pages tell us that after the fall OF man
the Lord God said. Behold, the man IL
become az ono of u.s. 10 know good and
oviI. y And TO know good and evil with a
tendency to choose the evil Is certainly a
calamIous situation. from which there rs
no salvation save by the education OF tho
heArt and conscience to love and choose |
tho good over the evil.
The very variety and extent OF human
knowledge growing more varied and ox- |
tended every day, the thousand new and |
refined methods of panderlng to the selfish |
appctlties made possible by the increasing
knowledge OF ton thunder forth ire
mendons emphasis upon the necessity OF |
cultivating the moral sense that Il may
secure and maintain Intelligent and In
fir9ntal companionshlp with the cultivated |
intellect.
II there is amy efficacy In prayer, Il the
pleading OF the righteous heart win await |
anything with God IL surely becomes us
TO get on influential terms with Him and
mako constant and nvinoibie prayer to
tina Almighty Father for His blessing upon
the boys and girls, the young men and
women In our schools and coleges-that
the development of their moral sense p,ay
keep pace with the development of their
intellectual power. that their conscience
and mind may be divinely joined together
In an indssolnble and indestruotible union.
u THIS oan not be accomplished our in
stitut!ons OF learning VIII be turning loose
upon the world IA vast horde of more or
loss cultivated minds bent upon trampling
underfoot the traditional panctities of he
'ii"l"l biutI winch nave nitneftO preserved
us from utter destruction, and the history
of America will be but u re-cnactment OF
those terrific scenes In the midst OF whish
the Roman cntriro went out into the black
ness OF night forever Rome persistoptly
and gaiiy violated the sacred shrinas OF
the moral sense. and the strldent and in
ovltabe Nemesis covered her with The
black pail OF impene,rahlc night Those
boys and girls are TO come forth from
school and college and fiji the places of
power rnd influence Ia this Nation of oprs.
and unless their moral sense Is as robust .
and clear-eyed as their intellect their paz-
slons VIII run riot and ultimately turn
our country into lurld vestihulo OF hell /,
u VIII not be done In day, Rome was !
mol built In a day, nor was II destroyed m
? day Men do not drop into moral chaos q
by one act and In one experience They !,
begin the descent ON u scarcely perccptib,e | ,
decline They begin by oosening moral | !
restraints and without Intending 10 I'M I;
cham tho flood. They surrender tho whole
some fear of doing over so small a con-
lS1ous wrons they loosen the rather light
md uncomfortable grip OF their sacred IN
ieritances, they give up to degree private
.rayer and private devotion and private