Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22
Bishop scanneII's Address.

After the announcement OF the honors
and comforting OF the medals Bishop Scan
nell was introduced. He congratulated the
graduates upon completing their course OF
study, and then spoke in part as follows:
The educated man must know himself,
the nature and powers of his mind and the
relations in which he stands TO the world
about him and particularly to his fellow
men. He must know his own moral ma
ture and the responsibilities which that
nature imposes upon him. In this branch
OF human knowledge every man Is bound TO
be, to some extent, a specialist. II IL be
OF nature and to be able to control them. It
is far more important for him to know
himself s and to be ~ ABLE stb,G 70 &c e9n tbS di flm-
ence between right and wrong, every man
must have. and this knowledge must be
SO much a part of himself, so ready at
hand and so overmastering in its inlu-
ence as to form and give a complexion
and expression to his very habits. Mere
knowledge does not our respect
and still less our love. We do not love
the brilliancy OF the cold, heartless, IN
warm-hearted sympathetic man of whom
everyone says that he, Is a good man.
After all, It is not his knowledge, but
his habits which make the gentleman.
And there. the education which imparts
mere knowledge of facts and laws, but
does not form good habits, is not a true
education. 1t does not form the true man
the strong, generous, true-hearted man
the good man. And. as Tennyson says:
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Desirable as all this is, however. 1t is not
enough to complete a mans education, TO
him TO bring forth the best that is In him.
Man is by nature religious; he longs after
an immortal life, because he desires to
know forever and TO live forever. He longs
after that knowledge that will satisfy the
needs OF his intellect and the good that Will
satisfy the longlngs OF his heart; but, he
will attain TO neither II he be not the heir
sures him that he is the heir 10 such a life
and that in IL his hopes and his longings
will be fully realized.
Religion is Necessary.
Mans religious nature must be educated
and developed and guided Alright. Man, to
do his best work, must be free and super
natural; truth alone will make him free.
Moreover, man, TO be what he ought TO be,
needs pure and lofty motives-motives that
will stimulate him and restrain him and
that will be stronger and more abiding
than any which temporal interests can
suggest; Now, religion alone can supply
A university therefore, that excludes
from its curriculum OF studies those sub
Jects that are necessary above all others
TO build up character and make men strong
and potent for good Is not a true univer-
sity. II II merely proposes to itself TO
make men smart and sharp and ingenious
the work IL will accomplish will have little
value. 1t may, indeed. stimulate the COM
mercial spirit among the people and help
them 20 acquire wealth, but Il will never
produce noble and disinterested and broad
minded men. II Is men strong OF hand and
stout OF heart, who are also devoted and
unselhsh, that make a nation great. Wealth
weaken and corrupt
III fares the land. to Fastening ills a prey,
Where wealth aceumulates and decay"
With Us certainly wealth is accumulat-
ing. and accommodating fast. But what
about the men or our country. especially
our public menf Have our public men