Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-09-25

the DfvifR Instructor. WHO reaches niS
disciples that through them we may
learn the way OF life. He Is teaching
hls disciples I'm order that the count
less multitudes. cropping about In the
darkness OF heathendom. may through
Us be brought into saving touch with
the cross
To duplicate the teachers knowledge
and life in the lives OF his students Is
always the far reaching purpose OF true
teaching. Why did General Samuel
Chapman Armstrong found the Hamp-
ton school near Old Point Comfort. and
why was that other Indian school es-
tabllsbed I'm Carlisle. Pa? 1t was I'm
order 20 take the Indian boys aud girls
from the far west to the east, there to
bring them into touch with the white
mans teachers and the white mans
ways and then TO send those Indian
boys back TO their tribes In the hope
that the civilized red man would In
turn civilize his brothers and sisters.
Why does Booker 4. Washington's work
have the hearty support OF the white
men both OF the north and the south .
Because he il trying TO duplicate his
plain. common sense, practical life In
the lives Of his students. He is not
trying to teach the doctrine that the
white and the black races should IN
termsYry. He Is the apostle preaching
that life means work: that the black
race Will never lift itself by political
agitatioDs. but only by its members be-
ing good walters and coachmen and
honest lsborers and provldent farmers
aud intelligent wives and mothers. He
is preaching ''tbe gospel of the tooth
brush" He does not believe a man,
colored or white. can be respectable
and be chemically dirty. Such IL the
duplicating purpose OF Alabama's fore
most negro educator. Now. my friends,
Jesus Christ as a divine teacher should
have duplicating power In the lives
of HIS students. 1t should be found In
the lives OF his processing disciples. In
the lives of some OF us who have been
crowding the gospel classroom for the
last ten. twenty-yes, even thirty and
forty years. Christ's duplicating pow
or should he found In Us. because
through US the gospel must be sent 70
some sinful and some lost soul to whom
otherwise 1t may never be sent at all.
For the Weak and Helpless.
We have often read how heroic deeds
In martial life have saved an army for
IN earthly king. Can we not realize
how our deeds as the representatives
of Christ can draw men to or drive
them away from the CROSSE Many
years ago n French army was battling
under the hot aud blasting Algerian
sun. The forced marches and the counS
ter marches which that army was COM
PEELED TO take were enough to kill an
African negro. let alone q European.
Then in order to increase the horror
ment. Man after man died. The army
became panic stricken, and all seemed
to be lost. But one night Colonel Gar
darens wanted to prove that this
dreaded disease was contagious "whol-
ly through food and dSink and I'm no
other way" So he himself lifted one OF
the cholera corpscs- out of its bed.
Then he turned to his men and said:
Now / will show you That cholera is
not infectious. l will pass the night in
this mans bed" He raised the bed
clothes and Lay down and slept. In
the morning he awoke, arose and de-
parted 10 his own quarters a well man.
That power OF n personal example In
splred his men, They took heart. The
French army was saved. My friends,
our examples as representatives OF Je-
oh rfuf II a
good or bad influence that Colonel
Gardarens had over his men. AS Cos
pei STUDENTS we must duplicate Christ's
life or we must misreprcsent him. We
shall had sinful men and women to his
altar OF drive them farther away. "we
are the light OF the world" ave are
The sat of the earth" "we are the cit
lee set upon a hill which cannot be
hid. AS gospel students we are
Chrisrs representatives, Chrisrs wilt
nesses, and we cannot help st.
But where as Christian disciples
shall We build Christ's future class
roofnsf Everywhere. In them must
DO gathered the old and the young. the
rich and the poor. the white and the
BLACK. the Jew, the gentle. For them
the applications for membership do not
need the Endorsement OF n wealthy
mans check. They are not restricted
to social caste, as is the famous pri-
vate school near St Petersburg, which
was established only for the Sons and
daughters or the men who are the IA
vorftes OF the Russian car. Did / say
the Future gospel classreoms must be
built for all people alike? I misquoted
myself. They must be especially built
for the poor and the helpless and the
weak and the lame and the blind ana
the outcasts. social and spiritual. The
Command u given unto US In emphatic
terms. go ye out into the highways
and the hedges and compel them to
come M" These are the words Christ
uses. Compel. compel. compel them to
come In
a MessAGe % the wsrSa.
What a message 1t IL that the stu
Dents In CAFistis school are, commits
stoned to deliver 20 the worldl II trans
forms the whole aspect Of life. This
world. In the light Of our LORDS teach-
,ng. Is NO longer the scene OF meaning
less suffering. OF useless struggle and
Inevitable disappointment 1t Is a
scene OF preparation. Of discipline, of
education. IN the highest sense OF the
word. for q larger. fuller life. AS the
children who are now assembling in
our school-houses are being prepared
for manhood and womanhood OF use
ful service. SO the men and women in
Christ's school have reached a higher
grade. They. too. are being educated
aud trained for a grander career. The
lessons are hard to learn. the discipline
Is often painful. But we go to our
tasks with brave heart when we dis
cover that there is purpose In 1t all.
We can bear hardship and persecution
and affection when we know that they
are developing In US qualities which we
shall need In better world than this.
Thus trials come to us with new faces.
We can understand now our Divine
Teachers inaugural message: Blessed
are they that MOURN" Blessed are
they who hunger aud thirst" for I'm
der his blessed teaching we have learn
ed that ''alI things work together for
good TO them that love God"
Thus. my Christian friends, by the