The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-16

Two of the Millions. 5s7
to the many This was the work of
Isaiah, Amos, Hosea and the rest.
This was the work of Luther Zwingli,
Calvin All these great leaders of the
people have felt that they had a mes
sage from God, from Christ, and have
gone forth crying: Thus saith the
Lord" So to-day the great need is for
some-a few, a very few, perhaps-who
shall receive the message God is
speaking, and then give it to others
men and women with hearts and in
tellects and characters capable of ap-
preciating the truth, and who having
taken it in, are bold enough to declare
it, even in the ears of a gainsaying
people
What better place to make ready for
such a work of calling as this than the
halls of a great university? Every col
lege, every university, should be a
school of the prophets, just as truly as
a theological seminary. What can the
college in his ideal state do for us?
1t creates sanity of judgment. 1t
is opposed equally to fanaticism on
the one side and to prejudice on the
other. 1t ought to save men from vag-
aries, wild dreams; but it ought also to
lead them to see that there may be
more things in heaven and earth than
are dreamed of in their philosophy.
1t creates manhood, a character that
is allsided-thus furnishing God, nature,
the truth. a well-tuned instrument,
with so wide a range of keys and of
stops that all the fullness of the mes
sage can be rendered.
1t makes men investigators, search
ers for the truth, discoveries. 1t puts
them on the watch tower, and trains
eye and ear to see and to hear things
as they come to pass. Here are the
watchmen who should ever be ready to
respond to the ten thousand cries that
are going UP all the while from as
many voices: What of the night?'
What of the nght?"
1t teaches us how to weigh values,
to see what is worth while in the
world. 1t helps us to put first things
first and last things last. Especially
does it teach US to break the bondage
of that gross materialism which, in
its worst phases exists to-day not so
much in science or philosophy, but in
society and in business.
Have you learned these lessons q?
Have We made yourselves ready to re-
ceive the message? What a responsible
ity rests on teacher and pupil in an in
stitution like this For you are here
for larger ends than to learn so much
Latin and Greek and mathematics and
history and science. You are here that
you may become the prophets of God.
All your studies should make the BIZ
BILE and Christ more to you, and should
give you ears to hear what God is say
ing now. They should give you a gos-
pei message to the world, turning
counter or desk or workbench into a
pulpit, over which you shall declare
in modern phrase the unsearchable
! mysteries of Christ.
The church and the college alike
should learn these lessons and should
learn that together they are the hope
of the world. God has evidently meant
that they should be Joined together; let
no man, therefore, put them asunder.
The college has often brought the
charge of ignorance and cowardice
against the church. So far as this is
true, it must be corrected. The church
must not be afraid of the most ad-
vanced scholarship, nor of the truth
from whatever source the truth may
come. 1t has no reason to be afraid
The church has, with equal frequency
brought the charge of unbelief against
the college So far as this is true, il
needs correction also. The most real
and the most important things of life
are the things spiritual. The tools OF
fidence as the tools of the college. The
vision of the unseen is as real as the
vision of the seen. and even more real
These many things, whether they
reach us by way of the college or o.
the church, are to be revealed by tht
Holy Spirit, who is to guide us into al
the truth. Let US not forget the in
| innate INTERPOLATION of the various
parts of Christ's kingdom. This king
| dom of truth is one, and we are not t
divide it into sacred and profane Al
truth is from tina Spirit, who from thu
| first has been present, who broodeC
over the abyss in the very beginning
| and made it pregnant with life, who
| therefore, must still move the star
! and hold together the atoms in hol.
wedlock. who descended on Jesus as
dove, and filled the upper chamber oil
| the day of Pentacost.
The scholar has a right to ask tn
Spirits presence, as much so as tn
absent from the theologian, blinde,
with prejudice and ignorance. TIL
scholar should be, may be, the hottest
| the most spiritual of men. AS h
handles the mysteries of nature, an
thus enters the Holy of Holes, h
comes very near to God But he ma,
stand there before God and neither Sc
! his shape, nor hear his voice. Tnen
too, God must reveal his better thing
to us by his Spirit. Jacob lay on hi
stony pillow at night with the star
over his head. but God was not Their
for the VANDERBILT was a desert place
But in the night God opened the win
dows and gave this man vision o
angels. He awoke in the morning t
say: Behold God was in this place
and 1 knew it not" He called the place
what every place has a right to be
Bethel, the house of God"
HARD WIND AT WAYCROSS.