The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-08

rated parts of the country. The meeting
closed with an address by Rev j. r. =.
Be Satisfied with the Second Best"
The Qu<Stiou >Of~AttenAaaee. X
The mooted question OF the number OF
people brought into Detroit by the Chris
tan Endeaver convention cropped OUT
at the end of todnights session
In Tent Endeasor when ,,s,, sseresary
.cise the Detroit newspapers Tor say
ing that the influx of delegates from otn,
er states was not nearly as great as mad
been anticipated In the local committee
estimate Mr.. Baer said he had no state
lcent yet to make as to the attendance
as compared with other years he prom
ised to make one later. but he called on
all Endeavorers present to rise large
majority of those present stood up. wnicn
Mr.. Baer assumed to be proof OF his view
Of the attendance question. AT all events
the secretary insisted that the Christian
Endeavor tents had never been before SO
crowded and overfiowed at every one or
the main meetings.
Bishop b. w. Arnot. colored. presided
over the tent Endeavor meeting. Rev.
DR. Quayie of Indianapolis, one of the
speakers on the evening programme. was
announced to have been called to kansas
TO the bedside of his dying father.
The devotional exercises were led by r.
r. Patterson. of San Francisco. the mo-
ments of meditation OF prayer by Rev.
G. r. Soper, of st. Paul.
Address of DIR. DarrOws.
The address of the evening was by Pres
ident John Henry Barrows. of Oberlin
college.
The Supreme Value of the Higher Edu-
cation" was his theme. He said In part:
The Christian college cannot be under
mold the heart and character. to shape the
will and the life, as well as to sharpen the
intellectual faculties Of the students. Ed
ucation' as Herbert Spencer has said lis
tn FIR
being the kind OF person he is. needs right
ideals and something better besides; He
needs the spirit and the heavenly forces
which help him to fasten his affections on
right ideals. The purpose determines the
quality OF an action, and ALSO in a meas
ure, the results Of it. II religion Is some
to be willing to declare 1t. to announce 1t
n every wise way. Through the life which
the student lives there should ever run the
golden thread which leads to God. The aim
OF the Christian college 10 not reached by
turning out students who are merely be-
levers In Christianity. who consent calmly
and indifferentiy to Its creed. 1t aims TO
I'LL its students with the spirit OF st. Paul.
to make them alive in the service Of Christ,
and TO fire them with the enthusiasm OF
humanity. 1t purposes TO send them forth
which more than any. other has kindled
the imagination and the neral sentiment
Of mankind. The president Of Clark uni
versity believes that the Bible is being
psychology: dealing with him as whole
his body. mind and will. And President
Gilman affirms that the ethics of the New
Testament will be accepted by the scien-
tific. as well as the religious. faculties Of
men, The president OF state anniversary
has affirmed from his own experience the
conviction that state institution cannot
exist unless 1t is founded upon a religious
basis. Agencies to promote religion among
students In state colleges are. however
no part OF the education provided by the
n TO a ia min NH oh, haUa l,x
requiring church and chapel attendance
have given up this requirement State in
situations cannot discharge teacher who
is hostile to Christianity. Christian schools
can.
There are special reasons today which
show that the part taken by the Christian
college In our national life is growing i'm
portant and strategic. America. already
the richest of nations. is to become far
richer. The number of the wealthy will
be Increased. and millions will have most
which the very rich now enjoy. The tend
ency OF opulence Is TO enervate. Christian
character needs 10 be hardened and forth
fed against luxury. And a manhood that
can stand money is what the Christian
college aims TO produce, and what Oberln
college has produced in the few men Of
successfully 10 the getting of great for
tunes. Education. refinement, culture,
wealth. luxury. are among the most power
ful forces OF misery, restlessness and vi
day. unless they are penetrated and con-
trolled by the religion OF Christ, which
gives peace. love. courage, faith. hope and
Joy. Our Civilization rushes to vast and
fatal plunge unless God Is enthroned in
the educased minds OF our people. Educa-
ton without religion Is architecture with
out foundation and roof
ION every side OF us we hear the loud
demand for educated men who are fitted
To the worlds present work. Character
comes from character; and nothing in the
x.R ~ 4
can take the place OF Christianized person
ality. The households need them Our
churches need them. Oh. how sadly, And
sometimes two or three devoted. we'll
trained. sensible men and women will do
far more for the life OF a church. for its
growth and prosperity. than hundreds OF
inefficient. poorly-trained. even IL not In
different members
las a character building institution the
Christian college holds an unrivaled place.
some studies. as already intimated are
difficult. but the forming OF character is
both the most difficult and the most i'm
pcrtant task given TO the Christian teach
er. 1t IL the most difficult. for III Is far
harder task to form a single moral virtue
than to become a philosopher Virtue is
the habit OF doing good: and habits grow
with US longer and more potentially than
the knowledge of the facts OF science and
history Germany does not think i safe
TO educate her children leaving out reiig-
ton. In France the schools are proving a
prodigious ethical failure. because owing
TO "a not unnatural fear OF despotic priest
craft. the highest truths and motives are
omitted from the school life. Criminal
statistics in France. as we'll as in America,
Indicate that there Is horrible failure
somewhere In the education oE the youth.
We are witnessing strong reaction In IA
yor OF ethical training: but IL IL plain that
the code Of morality which ignores rel.g-
Ion Is both incomplete and ineffective. No
raiity without religion Frederick Harri-
son pronounced a rafting OF dry bones.
Those who have the administration os
schools ard colleges should give heed not
only 10 character. but 40 convictions, in
those who are called upon to teach. For IL
has oc~n truly said that one man can SOW
more tares in single day than dozen
men can root up in month What men
need ~ not only truth, but an inclination
to obey the truth. And a code 81 morality
however pure and perfect. has no more
motive power in IL 10 make man obey
1, than the knowledge of geography has TO
make man travel around In. world A
college training that does rot mold right
character that leads 10 diietsanteIsri and
selfish refinement and exclusivensss like
those Of the later Roman empire. or OK
the brilliant era of the Italian renaissance
does not meet the requirements Of true
education. Such culture does not help
forward human development SScE cub
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