The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-28


misrepresents more than it represents.
Science recognizes the divinity at the
! core. of Brahimism, Buddhism. Judaism,
| Christianity, Mehammedanism and all
| the rest" Who then can find fault with
science? An opposite view of this s4b
! Ject was given on the same day by a
| Methodist minister, DR.. Resmus, who
said. in part: "A liberal clergyman of
| this city recently stated that Protestant
ism is dead. If this is not true it will
! soon be if such pabuium is much longer
given to the people. Inc race cannt
| live on brilliant husks. it must have
bread Sad it is wnen yearning heat
| is led into the midnight by those who
sail under the guise of Christianity ana
stand presumably as teachers of hope
and Jesus Christ. The need of the age
is faith, not doubt. Faith is strength,
| doubt is weakness.
Another minister assured his congre-
CATION that re1lgi-n must be treated as,
| an investment Men must be brought
| to understand that it pays, while othei
were endeavcring ito reconcile" the
! great truths CT divine law and providence
with science, forgetting CT probably hay
ing never un1erstocd that constant
changes necess.tate constant recon
Struction of the structure CT sciences
what can be more fu lie. moe inept,
that this attempt to bring about coinci-
dence between the absolute utts of the
Divine Being WHO is eth same yesterday.
| today ana forever and the facts of
! science which are not absolute, but refa-
| tive truths. How can any one make it
| appear that the labyrinth of mysteries
! into which science leads US, AMI which
| at every turn presents the gigantic In
terrosation point of the "unknowable''
is the same as the one pointed out by the
! Master? l must beg the for5earance &c
rS3 -nrC fOy III hi -
/ do it because the min sters of Chica-
so are great power In this community.
Some of them are very able and there is
no doubt that in res sect to morals and
religion they are controlling force. TIE
great trouble is that in the name of
! Christianity almost every belief is just;-
| fied-and that Christians are not neces-
sarily those who believe in the divinity
of Christ. That some possibly many,
preachers do not tell their congregations
all they believe is quite fully estab-
lished
One very able pulpit speaker has aga II
collected strongly to the work done IN
the public school, to which 1 should not
refer if this were not really my last APP
pearance" from Chicago for time at
least He pronounced the Chicago schools
"the worst in the country" and in tn s
he practically agreed with all recent
criticisms OF the system here, which goes
to show that the critics do not know
much about the rest of the country. The
complaint that the bus ness man in CHI
cago has learned by sad experience that
the schools of the city fail to give their
graduates, to say nothing of the thous-
ands who are unable to complete the
overweight curriculum, a good working
knowledge of the essentials of an English
education Is made in almost every city
in the Union.
raoouflv learned that Columbia col
Iege was organizing classes in spelling.
IT is understood that there arc such
classes new in the Central high school |
of St PAM This fact adds nothing to
the fame Of either school but if there be
any truth in these statements it is
Sc-thm1 Z q Cjsm Ct the preparatory
work done .'sewfrre There is an ir- |
"cducihie l'i''iirr u1n Of public school edu- |
cation-things which must be accom- |
plished in the school in behalf of the |
pupils or the school must be regarded |
as a failure. These by common consent |
are an ability to read. Understandings. |
to unite legibly, to spell correctly and |
to grasp quickly and apply accurately |
arithmetical calculations required in |
business. The general verdict here is /
that this is not wholly ace omplished, but I
this may be said of nearly every system |
in the country. It's claimed that. the |
schools are i'll danger from fads AMI |
which somehow fail to achieve practical (
results; that strength is FILTERED away
in multitude of details;E that the gen
eral and literary gymnastics of the
schools do not take into consideration /
direct anil practical resllts; that there
should be more work and less. absorption
of mcon!'ealns. The Which, trouble is
summed up i'll the statement that there |
Is cumbersome machinery adjusted to |
some vague ids>i of Culture and of gem |
eral training. which defeats the real
purpose of school life
Tea: that | wt'lio rot add anything to
what / have heretofore said if T were to
argue these several propositions. It may
De that we are uloyirg towards a new |
plane OF endeavor, and once there every
thIng will be all right, but unquestion- |
ably there is great loss in the movement |
we are no more to- find ifeals- in the |
past. 1t is not what we have done thar !
Is &c assist US in the future. Out of tha |
possibilities before US We are to se,i,ra |
the equipment and the Incentive for |
pressing forward ''The lar,1n Of ev
perlence. the light of Other davs., has
gone out, and We are gui 3ed by the stars
AS 1t seems inevitable that the schoo1s
must assume the responsibility of the
making OF American citizenship. thara
should De some standard. some agree
n'eht whereby these engaged in the worlx
Woulu approximate uniform results hut
VINO is To determine the standard?
"A. J. Smith.