The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-08

strong to apprehend the situation in some
real military problem.
1.-THE graduates of Annapolis are rooted
and grounded in the arts of navigation and
gunnery and in the sciences pertaining
thereto and are thus made ready to APP
prehend the course which naval analrS
take. The graduates of our law colleges
are at least supposed to be rooted and
grounded in the common law In the theory
and practice of pleading, and so forth, and
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are very obscure. The musical graduate
is rooted and grounded in musical theory,
the laws of harmony, of counterpoint and
fugue that he may be strong to appreciate
the value or unworthiness OF the compost
lions of others or, that he may be strong
to apprehend with his imagination new
musical combinations and thus produce
new compositions.
Now all this is but illustrative of the
higher lesson of the text, for here We have
not only the lesson of the physician, law
yer, soldier, doctor, musician, but the
whole lesson of life that embraces these
and all other callings. The common object
matter in what sphere the energies of
that life may be expended is to know
the length and breadth and depth and
heighth of the love of Christ, to know it
And if one would thus be strong to APP
prehend with all the saints what is the
and to know the love of Christ that pass
eth knowledge he must be rooted and
grounded in something. So to speak, he
must have mastered the science and art
of loving He must be a graduate, as it
were, in this all-inclusive study.
People often have very wrong idea Of
what it is to graduate. When 1t is said
science of mathematics, there are often
those who interpret it to mean that the
man knows all that there is to be known
about mathematics. But that Is not SO.
The more a man knows about any science
the more conscious he is that that science
passes knowledge. And yet. being rooted
and grounded in the study he is strong to
apprehend its extent
$50 only in a much greater degree, with
the love of Christ. The more completely
love the more thoroughly one has mastered
the art of forgiving his enemies, of doing
good to them that hate him. Of praying
| for them that spitefully use him and per-
secute him; the more completely is he fitted
| to recognize the infiniteness of Jesus
love:
Now the object, and the whole object, of
| the church is to root and ground men in
| love; that is our curriculum; that is what
| we would teach that is what we would
practice There are: to be sure other OBJ
| are all contained in the one great object.
We have our Bible school Sunday MORN
ings, and there the literature of the Bible
| is taught, and the minds or the children
| and young people are made familiar with
it, 1t is no low unworthy aim to make
| this Biblical teaching contribute to the gen.
| eTdl culture VI tue taught Dul TIE CHIEF
object is to pervade the love of all with
| the spirit of the book; to root and ground
| in love that later they may be strong to ap-
| prehend the results of Christianity
| 1--WE doubtless shall engage In the COM
| ing months in numerous and various social
| functions. If these be rightly conceived
| and carried out they will furnish most ex-
| cellent opportunities for practically Illus
trating our apprehension of the love OF
Christ.
| And so on throughout the whole round
| of church and home life. AS you must be
rooted and grounded in law If you would
| be a live and prosperous lawyer; If you
| must be rooted and grounded in the prin-
| ciples Of pedagogy II you would be a sue
| cesSful teacher; as you must be rooted and
| grounded in physics and mechanics If you
| would be successful engineer, so you must
be rooted and grounded In love If you
| would be Christian"