Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-06-25

our Christian civilization, The Press and
the Pulpit of our country do grcvouS
wrong to social thinking when they i'm
ply as they so often do. putting the
exception for the rule that our great
merchants. our captains of Industry, our
Srcdt manufacturers and hnancicrs, are,
as rule, controlled by a lust for gam.
Hut the thought for us is what a com
plcxity of obligations rests upon them.
what a burden of duty they must carry
| can fancy that the modern man OF Hi-
fairs often signs for those simpler and
olsicr times when industry and trade
were confined within narrower limits,
when to the business man the evening
brought peace, and the night sleep. when
there were no unions and no strikes. ana
no men who made a livelihood out of stir
ring up strife and malice. But no sensible
man wants to 30 back to an earlier civili-
cation, or dreams that we can dispense
with our cana bic men. Only we must
swear them to fidelity to their high trusts.
We must remind them that they are
trustees of certain rare qualities which
they hold for the common good. and tot
lot them forget what manner of men they
arc thereby called to he, how broad in
their sympathics, how trained not only
in the tcchnicaliticS of economies hut IN
all social and humanistic culture, men on
whom, as much as on any mon IN the
most sacred callings, rest the power and
the duty of aCtualizing the gospel OF
Jesus Christ IN the life of man and of
| mon
pnss;re, fr,r, consideration of tho need
/ and the purpose of discipline to its
sources and methods, we dwell first ON
that discipline for life which comes
! through study and Observation-Disclosures
what we call education. What propor-
+io,, of tbo ,,.,ilab1o efficiency of a human
| hcirc ebo,Id bn credited TO education ?
I So,noti,ncs v.o talk os thouph the train
| inc II, srhool and rolIopo of locture-ronm
ana laboratories and libraries. almost
mako tbo man What no is i'm life There
nro otbore ubo eov "vour scholastic
training is only q minor factor in the
raen Vour d,lInrd ard vour wooden
snoon succeed and vour valedictorian
! f,ils-,nd tho youth who never saw tho
college distances both" Here is lust
nnnuph truth to establish an exception.
| rI, o,,os,io, is ono bctv,oon pifts and
training Is success three fourths gifts
a,t nuo- fn,,,,tb training or the reverse
| Rut q moro practical form of the olics-
tion is "ShalI I each one Judging for him
self cot thc hest discipllnc for life by
studv and irstr,ction or without it-bv
| a short cu,rso Of study or a long one
Inc incornorntinrr into u,vse1f the best at
tainable knowledge and power which
tercbe,s am looks can give. or shall
truet to tbc c,cuire which no doubt scmc
,n,n have INIT which 7 have no reason as
vnt ia think that have and lackinc
which 7 shall he all unfit to make the
most of nv lifco" I will not saw that the
ovnmnlo Of 1nsus is decisive hcre-for the
cases may NOT be aualocous-hut it Ger
tainIv hrinrs homo to MS with Great force
fine question whether if added months ol
vn,re Of ,,r.nar,ti,n make the rest ol
life more secure from mist ,kes more ricl
and r,,l moro effective and helpful
whether tho SLIGHT loss i'm fine quantity ot