The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-13

ct Is iiSnl. NlldI resources are
there in all nature, AT all compar-
able to the vast influx of power of
every incoming generation of
children: Each embryo hfe is
more wonderful than the globe it
is sent to inhabit, and more glo-
rious than the sun upon which it
first opens it's eyes. Each with
fitting education, is capable of
adding something TO the sum of
human happiness, and subtract
ing from the sum of human mis-
cry, and many great souls
amongst them may become in
struments for turning the course
of nations, as the rivers of water
are turned. 1t is the duty of
moral and religious education to
employ and administer all these
capacities of good for lofty pur-
poses of human beneficence.
Suffer little children to come
unto me, said the Savior, "and
forbid them not, for of such is
the kingdom of Heaven. " And
who shall dare say that philan-
thropy and religion cannot make
a better world than the
present, from beings like those
in the kingdom of Heaven?
Education must be universal.
1t is well when the wise and the
learned discover new truths: but
how much better to diffuse the
truths already discovered among
the multitude. every addition to
human power; and while philos-
opher is discovering one new
truth, millions may be propagat-
ed amongst the people. Diffusion
then, rather than discovery, is
the duty of our government. The
qualification of voters is as i'm
portant as the qualification of
governors. The theory of our
government is,!not that all men,
however unfit, shall be voters -
but that every man, by the pow
er of reason and the sense of du-
ty, shall become fit to be a voter.
Finally, education alone can con-
duct us to that enjoyment which
is, at once, best in reality and in
finite in quantity.
God has revealed to us not by
ambiguous signs, but by his
mighty works; not in the disput-
able language of human invention
but by the solid substance and
reality of all things,-what he
holds to be valuable, and what he
regards as of little account. The
latter he has created sparingly,
as though it were nothing worth,
while the former has poured
forth with unreasonable munifi-
cence. [ suppose all the dia-
monds ever found, could be hid
den under a bushel. Their guam
tity is little because their value is
small.
But iron ore, without which
mankind would always have been
barbarians-w without which they
would now relapse into barbar-
ism-he has strewed profusely
all over the earth. Compare the
scantiness of the pearl with the
extent of forests and coal fields;
of one, little has been created, be-
cause it is worth little; of the 9th
ers, much, because they are
worth much. His fountains of
naphtha, how few; and myrrh
and frankincense, how exiguous;
but who can fathom his reservoirs
Of waters, or measure the light
and the air? This principle per-
vades every realm of nature. EN-
phatically is this plan manifested
when we come to ourselves. Up
to the point of competence, up to
the point of independence and
self-respect, few things are more
valuable than property; beyond
that point, few things are of less
value. However rich a man may
be,a certain number Of thickness
es is all he can comfortably wear.
Give him a dozen palaces, he can
live in but one at a time. Though
the commander be worth the
whole regiment, or ships com
pany, he can have the animal