Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-06-26

large of the faithful, chivalrous
Christian gentleman who during
this session has given you nobler
thoughts and higher ideals, who,
leaving us, will carry with him the
respect and the affection of all who
know him; tell them of the other
teachers who have given you their
best, and trained you for trucr,
stronger womanhood tell them of
the new president who will bring to
his position broad culture, the spirit
of progress, and brave Christian
womanhood. Tell them of the wise,
unsclfish and splendid service of DR..
G. S. Gardner, a service which will
cause his name to be honored wher-
ever Christian education is recog-
nized as mighty force in the church
and in the State tell them that the
Greenvile Female College, without
vain boasting and silly claims Of
superiority and childish bluster, is
fast forging to the front, and that we
all are working to the end that this
old college shall be, at no distant
day, the Vassar of the South.
In the second place, take your
stand firmly and resolutely on the
side of true and full development.
Partial development is but partial
torce.
We learn that, in ancient times,
Milo of Crotona began in early life
to lift and to carry a calf certain
distance every day; every day the
animal grew, but equally the power
of the athlete was developed. AT
last, 80 tradition says, Milo carried
upon his shoulders around the
stadium at Olympia an OK four years
old, then killed it with one blow of
his fist. Here was development of
the body, of muscle, of brawn. In
our schools and colleges we now
and then find a boy, called by cour-
tcsy a student, who is an unconscious
disciple of Milo rather than Cicero /:
to whom the dynamics of arms and
legs are far more than the dynamics
of the brain.
Far up in the scale of develop
ment, far above the cultivation OF
the physical, we find the develop.
mcnt of the intellectual, the evolu-
ton of mind. In this development
of growth, in processes and results,
grand as many of them arc, far.
reaching and even splendid, evoking
the wonder of the untaught and the
admiration of the learned, are
dangcr-signals; and among these are
the cxaltation of self, the reason,
and the blasphcmous complacency
that says, "IIerc are my works.
Where are Gods"
In this development of more intel
lcct is the tendency to apply to every
sentiment Of the human heart, to
every aspiration of the soul, the
stiltcd formula of cold philosophy,
of reason, which would overthrow
the republic Of brotherhood, of ten
der sympathy, of world embracing
love, of luminous faith, and erect
in its stead the dcspotism of frigid,
soullcss mentality.
In this exaltation of mere mind is
the hypothesis of innumcrablc atoms
blending to form cosmos, and
blending by chance or by natural
affinity, not by Gods command.
In this worship of man, and not
mans Maker, is the doctrine OF sea
sons recurring, Of sunrise and sunset,
of stars dwelling in space by natures
law, and not directed by the Supreme
Ruler.
In it, too, is the dreary answer
eyes" to the question, "Does death
end all?" In it, therefore, is the
denial of Immortality, with its
blessed hopes and its precious prom
iscs.
In the evolution of the intellect
alone philosophers of old built sys-
TENS that, resting upon errors and
misconceptions, fell, as fall houses
whose foundations are on shifting
sands, when by storms bcsct; in this,
stoicism, depending upon mind,
dcfcd the pains of life and reckoned
not of a hereafter; in this, epicure.
ansm "cnjoyed the pleasures of sin
for a season." and shut it's eyes to
the gloom of the grave; in this,
Voltairc built monuments to his
own genius, laughed at virtue and
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