The record-union., 1899-05-26
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State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

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They mostly misunderstood or misin-
terpret his meaning They proceed with
their discussion on the hypothesis that
| all education is condemned. AS we read
| the Huntington speech, this was not so.
| t was over education that formed the
i subject for his remarks. And the fact
that so much attention has been given
them is pretty good evidence that they
! struck home. As matter of fact, there
| is q sentiment very often expressed that
popular education does not educate TO a
useful end. Mr.. Huntington gave ex-
preston to what was in the mind OF
very many thoughtful persons. If it
provokes discussion and consideration
of the subject it will be of great use,
for the people have permitted their ed
ucational affairs to run riot. School de-
partments have largely fallen IN the
hands of professional boomsiters, who
have lulled the people to sleep with the
soporfic that every extravaganza and
folly which they have undertaken has
been an aspiration for higher educa-
| ton"
EDUCATED TORIES.
| Portland Oregonian: Boston and its
vicinity seem to be a prolific breeding
place for what might be called
the educated tory in American
politics. These New England gen
tlemen in politics." as they are fondly
termed by their admirers, seem to lose
not only their heads, but their good
manners, when they publicly discuss
the policy of the Administration in the
matter of the Philippines. Mr.. Moor
| field Storey, in letter to the Boston
Herald declares that the Administra-
tion will be judged at the bar of his
tory as Philip II. of. Spain has been
| judged" and he tells Secretary Long,
an honored Ex-Governor of Massachu-
setts, that he has forfeited respect and
confidence 'by his defense of a policy
which has disgraced our country and
dishonored our flag" This kind of rant
might be expected from Atkinson, or
! from William Lloyd Garrison, for they
are men never without a silly fad of
some sort; they are always playing wet
nurse to every newborn deformed child
of political and social REFORM but in
| telligent men had a right to expect
something of sanity and good manners
from Moorfield Storey, who is a lawyer
of reputation for professional learning
and ability, man of scholastic train
| ing and sO-called culture, a man who
has no excuse for ignorance, folly or
! bad manners in public discussion. Mr..
Storey did not speak more insultingly
of Ex-Governor Long than Professor
Laughlin of the Chicago University, did
of the Administration and it's action in
the Philippines.
A VICTORY FOR TRUTH.
Fresno Republican,: The ordination
of DIR. Charles A. Briggs as a priest of
the Episcopal Church may mark the
settlement or it may mark the reopen
ing Of an old and bitter controversy,
but in either case 1t marks an import
ant epoch in the growth. of American
religious thought To ordain DR.. Briggs
is to grant liberation to the methods of
higher criticism" of which he is the
foremost American exponent. 1t is not
to indorse the conclusions that DR..
Briggs has reached by these methods,
but to recognize the methods, and the
right Of men ITO use them to reach their
own conclusions. 1t is thus one more
victory in the long battle for the eman-
cipation of thought and study.
The simple contention of the higher
critics is that we shall frankly recog-
nize the fact that the Bible is a coli
lection of ancient and not modern
books. All other ancient books have
| certain characteristic forms and have
gone through certain peculiar history
which must be understood in order to
understand them. The books of the
Bible have the same forms, and so far
as the preservation Of manuscripts and
texts is concerned, have gone through
the same history. There has been dem
onstrably no miraculous exception in
favor of the Biblical books in these re-
spects, and the modern critics, there
fore, refuse to assume such an excep-
tion in any respect, without positive cv-
idence. Whatever may be the origin of
the Bible, its transmission has been like
that of other ancient books, and as the
transmission of ancient books differs
from that of modern books and as its
laws are known to scholars, it is neces-
sary for Biblical scholars to know and
apply these laws if they wish to know
as much about the Bible as other schol-
ars do about other ancient books.
These methods are nothing new, and
their validity is recognized by scholars
everywhere. The new thing is their
recognition by the church and the peo-
pie.
THE AMERICAN BOYS OUTLOOK.
Los Angeles Herald: What is the
prospect for the American boy of the
present day as he looks ahead in the
road of a business career? How does
the outlook compare with what his
father saw, or his grandfather, at the
threshold of a busy world? Many
bright American boys are cogitating
this subject now, and many thought
full parents are anXiously considering
it. The problem is much more difficult
of solution for a father of this gener-
alton than it was for a grandfather.
This because of the radical change
that has occurred in all industrial pur-
suits within the last third of a century.
The conditions which father now con-
templates, in connection with a voca-
tion for his son, are quite different
from those that his father considered
generation before. The busy life
road of thirty forty or fifty years ago
differs as much from that of the pres
ent day as country road differs from
a Paris boulevard.
The chief aspiration of the boy of
the earlier period, and the chief hope
of his parents, was that a career might
be marked out which would eventually
lead to an independent position. For
example, if the boy became an employe
in a store, there was hope that at some
future period he might become an en-
ployer in the same line. If he chose
to learn trade the prospect of ulti-
mate management was the same. Such
aspirations were natural because the
| attainment of top-place in business
was always a pOSSiblity The stores