The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-06

ind themselves face to face with that
grim task master, necessity.
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Here let me say 1t is our dnty to sup
port u religious schools and colleges.
Education and religion should 90 hand
Ia hand, in order that the power of
knowledge may be directed and trained
in the right channel. If we would pre-
serve the greatest civilization this world
haa ever known, we must stand with
education in one hand and the Bible in
the other prepared to defend and pre-
serve our legacy which has cost us so
much.
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As conditions become more complex,
it becomes harder to attract and hold
the people to the consideration of those
things which will rebound to their per-
manent benefit. The clamor and rush
and noise of the ever changing scene
before the vision which attracts the
eye and feeds the brain has in our great
cities substituted sight for reflection.
This tendency has Its good as we'll as
its bad influences. The kindergarten
has taken advantage OF this tendency
and provided a practical object method
of beginning the education Of children.
In conformity with this spirit, some of
our best lecturers have adopted the use
of the stereoptician. The current liter
allure of our time has yielded to this IN
iuence and the magazine that has the
largest circulation is the one that sup
plies its readers with apt illustrations.
Illustration is the flashlight Of relec-
ton, the instantaneous revelation of
thought, but II we are to be a great ma
ton, we must not only see but We must
think and know. To make thought
vital to others, we must make of it such
attractive merchandise that the public
will buy or the thinker is as much a
failure in his generation as the mer-
chant who offers for sale articles OF
merchandise for which there is no pub.
lie demand.
These conditions aud necessities are
some of the reasons that have lead Pro-
testantism to establish missions in the
populous districts OF all u great cities.
The great majority Of our churches
have deserted the downtown districts
moving to the more attractive part of
the city. But be it said to the credit
of the Roman Catholic Church she
holds to her downtown churches and
fights on the firing line az well as be-
hind the breast works. One of these
Protestant Missions has lately been es-
tablished by our church in the city of
St. Louis where we have planted a fort
and propose to fight for the salvation
of this sturdy class Of working people
who are not touched by the great city
churches. In this mission two minis
ters' daughters have volunteered to live,
actually giving their time talent and
lives to this work. The one as or.
dained ~deaconess, the other caring for
the day nursery IL which dozens OF
babes are kept every day while the
mothers Of these little ones work to
earn daily bread.
Fields are open everywhere for
woman's work and usefulness, and
these young ladies who graduate here
today need not devote their lives TO
sel6shness and indifference but it is
their privilege and duty to be an active
Illustration Of educated righteousness
and love. If we have received privil-
eyes and blessings, let us not consider
that they are to be bottled up and used
only for our own pleasure and comfort
Let us not forget the divine command
to Glove thy neighbor as thyself."
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Let not these young ladies underesti-
mate their influence. Woman is the
thermometer Of the worlds civilization
and will always be a potent influence
in the worlds history,-created more
sensitive in nature, more rich IN senti-
ment. mora ~responsiva in svmnathv In