Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-23


as those who graduated from West
Point naturally rose to be the great
military leaders Of the civil war. Here
and there we might find a great volun-
teer general, like John A. Logan or AL
fred Howe Terry or Nelson A. Miles;
but after all, such men were the ex-
oeptions Grant and Lee, Sherman and
Longstreet, Jackson and Sheridan,
Beauregard and Meade, Polk and
Thomas, Johnston and Hooker, were all
graduates of West Point In this age
of many schools and colleges I would
no more think Of sending my boys forth
into life's battle without a higher edu-
cation than l would expect one of them
to become a physician without enter
ing a medical school or a lawyer with
out studying law.
The Complete Education.
But, my young friend, a man who
is limited merely to a mental educa-
ton is only half educated The man
whose intellectually developed brain
is not ballasted by morally devel-
oped heart is heading toward certain
is placed in the hand of little child
the easier it is for that child to do
itself an injury. Aaron Burr was an in
tellectual giant, but Aaron Burr's
wasted life was caused by heart that
was morally bedwarfed by sin. Thomas
Paine had one of the greatest brains
ever placed within the skull of a man;
but Thomas Paine's heart was so dis
eased by sin that he was drunkard,
a reprobate and a practical outcast.
Lord Byron drank every cup of fame,
drank early deeply drank - drank
drafts which might have quenched
the Threats of millions and then died
of wretchedness' because his heart
was morally diseased. 1t is absolutely
necessary for every young man and
woman in order to happy and sue
cessful life to have a truly developed
Christian heart, yoked to a truly de-
veloped intellectual brain.
Now, young people, while the uni
versity teachers have been developing
your brain, in all probability the moral
teachers, like your Christian father
and mother and sisters and loved ones,
have been developing your heart. By
your training and your past religious
life you know what is right and what
is wrong. On the day when as young
man James Harper left the home of
his birth in Newtown, L. l., his mother
placed her hand upon his head and
| said: Jimmy, you are now about to
go into the great, wide world to make
| q success or failure. Remember, my
| boy, you go from a Christian home
/ and do not disgrace it. If you dis
| grace this home, remember that on the
great day of judgment before God |
shall witness against you and tell God
that you were brought up right and
dedicated by our prayers to his serv-
ice, and that you went to destruc-
ton of your own accord" You know
just as much what you morally ought
to do as James Harper knew what he
morally ought to do.
So on this graduation day of June l
congratulate you young people because
you have had such competent teachers
to develop your intellect, and l also
congratulate you because you have
had such efficient moral teachers to
develop your heart. You were rocked
in Christian cradle You were start
ed forth with Christian prayers. There
has never been day in all the time
you have been away to college that
your father at the family altar did not
make a morning prayer something like
this: God bless and protect and guard
our boy and girl at college. God make
John good man. God make Sarah a
good woman" Your mother, kneeling
by his side, would say: "Amen, amen!
God bless my absent son and my alb
sent daughter" There was not a week
in all your college life when you did
not receive a letter from home. Per-
haps your professor of bellies lettres
might say they were poorly written
but Christ would say they were beau
tifully written letters. In those letters
your mother always wrote about hel
Saviour, and she always penned &
sentence something like this: my dear
boy, remember that when you are
studying about the ancient Greeks anG
Romans you must not forget to rea(
|
would have you know nothing bu
Jesus only rather than have you know
everything that worldly scholars Nigh
want you to learn if thereby you would
neglect to know about my Christi
Do No Dishonor.
To show how much young mar
ought to appreciate the moral training
of his old home, as we'll as the intellec
tual training which he receives at col
lege, the late j. Sterling Morton. VIII,
was once q member of Mr.. Cleveland
cabinet, placed this epitaph upon tn
tombstone of his dead wife: Her
, lies Caroline French wife of j. Ster
ling Morton and mother of Joy, Pau
Clark and Mark Morton" Then tn
father took his four sons to the gray
, of his dead wife and said: Boys, you
mother is buried here. If any one O