The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-02-19
PERHAPS misunderstood.

The Charlotte News criticises the
Education has no regenerating power
upon the immortal soul. Horace Mann
was UGH an enthusiast for the educa-
ltion of the mind he thought that all the
iworld needed to be good and lovely was
to have that bestowment or accomplish
ment. The Messenger within two or
three weeks set forth its view as to ed
ucation-to its being a trinity, reaching
the mind and the heart and the head.
That is, when the full results Of educa-
ltion are reached. it fills the mind,
TRAINS it, disciplines it. leads it out. To
educate is to lead out That it also i'm
Iproves the moral -nature-that is when
the great Bible truths are taught to re-
lceptive pupils and taught by truly
lChristian men and women. That to
educate means also in Its completion to
train the hand, to make it more skill
full. In our late editorial that is pro-
Tested against by the News we said n
will stand by it while life lasts and the
Book of books continues to be the
guide, the friend. the teacher OF a
kind:
Education is a good, pleasant, use
lful, enjoyable thing to possess, but 1t
never yet made a sinner righteous, a
liar a truth-lover, a bad man a saint,
a rogue a man of honor. 1t does not
deal with the heart. the soul. but with
the mind"
The News knows as we'll as the Mes
-on,1 +ha+ education o. tarI0hf and &C
understood generally in North Carolina
means to instruct the mind. to develop,
Ito strengthen it, to impart lessons that
will result in opening the way for
knowledge and powers of thought as
well as usefulness. Our Charlotte con-
Temporary has it's own views. 1t is
pleased to hold that if education does
not reach the soul and, we suppose re-
generate it, make it the dwelling place
of the Divine Spirit, a fit temple for the
jindwelling of Christ Jesus the Redeem
ler-"Christ in you, the hope of glary,
then it is a very dead failure. If this
lis true, then indeed is the Bible of but
little use, and it's great living, SOUL
lsaving principles of no special results.
It says:
IF our esteemed contemporary is
Icorrect, it seems a waste Of time and
money to educate u children. If edu-
cation deals with the mind only, and
neglects the heart and soul, it is not
Education. 1t is simply learning.
Education covers a broader field. 1t
comprises two distinct features n is
mot education unless both Of them are
considered. We have always under
Istood that education implied, not so
much the communication of knowledge
as the discipline of the intellect, the
establishment of the principles, and the
Regulation of the heart"
Can our contemporary believe that Sc
Irious1y? Look at the public schools.
Do they really reach the immortal part
of the pupils and fit them for the
lskies?' Is it a fact that the schools
generally are SOU saving and man up
lifting in their mission and success? If
so, let the schools be vastly multiplied,
shut up the churches. and let the
preachers AXE to teaching in the ordi-
nary sense and cease to proclaim the
unsearchable riches of Christ the Lord.
But our contemporary requires deep
learning and not superficial smattering
But are the really great scholars-like
those of Germany and Great Britain
really made saints for the Kingdom of
Glory by their acquisitions? Hundreds
are sceptics and ~scoffers. Without holi-
ness no man shall see the Lord" Get a
great suficiency of human learning and
you will be all right-will be r~egenerat-
ed, sanctifed and saved. That is not
Gods teaching or His way. Hear our
contemporary:
IF it Ices not engender a love for
truth, honesty and Righteousness it has
failed of its purpose.
Learning, especially a little learning
that has been derived alone from text
books and has not been tempered by
the kindred touch Of human sympathy
yearning souls, may not add to
life, honor and honesty; truth-loving
and right living.
But the man who is educated, heart
SOU and mind. is the best development
of Gods creation. and it Is such educa-
ton as this, hat the country needs.
An education that only aspires to put
Ia better o upon a mans back, and
fit a woman for a better social position
lis not an education.
But an education that disciplines hu-
man hearts, develops the Cody in
of fellowship and intelligent
establishes a knowledge of
the rights of others and makes man
kind careful of those rights. is the kind
|of education we want to give the chill
|dren Of North Carolina"
With that part we have no quarrel.
1t is sound and safe. but it will shut
Iup all the schools we'll nigh. from foun-
Idatien to pinnacle. Those greatest seats
lof learning in the north. are filled with
thousands of students who can not re-
lspond personally to the description just
quoted Is to what is real. true educa-
ltion.
The Messenger will never intentional
lily disparage education.even of the high
lest kind. But it will never purposely so
state its advantages and blessings as to
make it's recipients self-satisfed, de-
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