The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-17
us THERE NOT
ANOTHER S|DE?"
Another Strong Plea For The
Chi dren
A CAIRO MINISTER
WHO BELIEVES THAT MORE
CHRISTIAN TEACHING IN AND
OUT or THE SCHOOLS IS
THE GREATEST NEED.

] interest the address recently delivered
/ before the Cairo Woman'S Club on
/ the striking subject "A Plea for the
Children. l." We agree with the editor
OF The Bulletin that this address
treats Of the most important subject
/ that can engage the attention Of any
one and is well worthy of careful
reading. But does this address deal
with the striking subject in its ful
/ lest and broadcast sense? We bee to
( say that it does not. II is wholly one.
sided This writer endorses the plea
of the speaker. as far as she goes.
She has clipped and woven. with skill
led hands, beautiful boquet of prim.
roses. But under the broad and
sweeping subject" "A Plea for the
Children" Is there nos another side?
Is il NOT a fact that the great and
all important side of life. from the
standpoint of this artistic plea is left
10 the reader sadly invisible? Can the
great nd glorious results, pointed out
in that plea ever be obtained from
it's own one.slded view of life?
We affirm that 1t cannot. The his,
tory of all ages says not. DO we
as human beings created In the image
of great God, who lives and rules
both the natural and the spiritual
world ever reach the "summum DO
Eum" by laying hold upon the ma
tcrial and ignoring the spiritual?
Listen TO few words which comes
to us from the spiritual world. and
you will learn the breadth, the height
and the depth of the address by
member of Cairo's board Of educl
don, The body without the spirit
Is dead Your training if void of the
spirit is only a sounding brass and
a tinglng symbol" Thetraining OF
children is a momentous problem
The many things pointed out by the
member of Cairo's board of education
to be avoided, is true philosophy and
orthodoxy. but after all Is it not like
arguing for an effect without a
cause. To cut the body loose from
the spirit is but TO have left corpse
What can you do with a corpse but 20
bury it, like many parents OF our land
are doing with their children. They
are burying them beneath the cloud
Of unsanctified folly
would not be understood as un.
lervaluing education, no, never BIZ,
is the development of the natural
mind the supreme good? Who win
say it is? Is 1t not true that an edu.
Gated bad man is to be feared more
than the ignorant bad man? Lex II
be forever understood that this writer
stands for our schools, ana for Il
borough education, but may we not
explain what is meant by education?
Education In KS truest sense is Chris.
ian education. Nothing short OF
Christian education is true education.
Nothing short Of Christian training
Is proper training. There is spirit
abroad in this age to advertise things
material at the expense Of things
spiritual The teacher who can only
succeed in developing the brain Is
not the kind Of a teacher we need in
our schools. Such a teacher is fail
ure. and such theory is pagan.
We heartily accept the statement
that a mother should not neglect her
children, even to do church work The
mothers first duty is to her children,
and we freely grant that. Is 1t not
wholly gratuitious to class church
work along, side by side with society,
selfculture club work and such like?
How many mothers in Cairo are guilty
Of neglecting her home and children
to do church work? Can anyone tell?
VIII someone point them out? II we
have such mothers in Cairo this
writer and pastor would advise them
to train and care for their children,
for no pHblic work can possibly equal
who trains her children and brings
them up in the fear and admonition OF
the Lord is engaged in the very high.
est type OF church work. The chill
dren Of today will be the churches OF
tomorrow. My mother had the oppor-
tunity to do but very little church
40 a,rsh he If oh
dren. but she gave the world three
ministers of the gospel. The great
day of the coming of our Lord viii
reveal what my mother accomplished
for the church of our Lord and His
Christ.
Yes. the mother who keeps her
children around her knees in her
home and teaches them that love is
the summum bonum," and that the
ideal life was lived by the lowly 1
Nazerine, is the model mother Send |
-FOUR children to school--yes, by all |
means. But send them 10 church and |
Sunday school II Won want your
sons to become manly men and your
womenly women, train l
them by the moral standard found in
the Bible set up by Jesus Christ. It
takes mental and spiritual training to
make a manly man and womanly
woman. Ethical culture can only
strengthen the mental powers. Elhi-
eel culture alone is as helpless as the