The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-05-06

bbtslde supply icf -fts nTst- t-isN days now
Raves II 20 send Its own roots INTO the
earth, ITS green ieaves INTO me %, ana ~
its cen inward aceivItles iransmute them
into life and growth. The FIRST green Leaf
exhausted the caterpillar nTrs. now move
,SSI5I'sl%sfnn fnS df a mn.sssdIditsash nssd hs&ssII a.
ifatg baptism, The youth must one day
leave home and. its protection ana pro
vision and bv he exercise OF hls own pow
ers wiring q living Tor bmseli- u. now ne
j. 10 meet these things and. not be nnduiy
moved, IL be ~ 20 meet them Ike true
man with SnaTase apd strength and m,
umph he Nuhust develop the sources -
strength within himself.
Here exactly Is the weakness of th's nres'
ent day, Every arr has IT'S own strensth
and pre-enpnenef TheStrength ei our Gay
has been the discovery and anpllcaton OF
the forces at nature. hy art and science; 10
eur .daile hving In all ITS branches. we
have turned the balloeli cart INFO the auto
mobile. the tardy sickle INTO the steam
harvester. the postfnhn gong three miies
an hour with letters into the telegraph ana
the te,ephoucs 4 Yet II ~ 0iways true that
from the greatest strength falls shadow
ing weakness. Our fathers had but lew
outside forces on which 10 rely. Not long
were they allowed 10 lie in the Cradle, not
lonl 10 nav IN the nursery. Nature was
runItd and rough with them. he CD
farm house stood far from ITS neighhor'
drifts of snow or swollen streams often lay
between When the wintry night closed
in there was no public place of amusement,
no stirring procession oi multitndes under
the electric lights Of the streets, hut neon
I Tight and shadows on the lonely country
traad II the family would pass genial
eyeainc they must develop the INSIDE
sou,yes of the home of the hearthstone IN
the.log cabin, and find the comedies and
tragedies of life on the stage OF their own
minds and hearts. No newspaper or mag
azine alured them oUt Of hemssircs
There. IN their own little world at their
own fresidc they thought out tAcT poll
taos. their literature and their Theology In
education the SCHOOLS were poorly FUR
rlshod. the teacher bat poorly trained, the
text books but few and serving the sue
cessive members of the family IN turn.
II they were to be educated they must lind
their education by the painful development
Of their own powers of memory and reilec'
ton Nou have seen pictures OF the poor
school house IN which Dan.el Wester OF
! Henry CLAY was tr0ined, OK, gong gen
Grafton further back we may think oi tire
simple school in which George Washington
| or Patrick Henry was educated; yet ont
Of such school houses came leaders wha
4 founded States. wrote constitutions, hulf
! a' republic. grappled with the diplomacy OF
! Europe: out Of them caItc orators whose
-eiodueuce. though dead on the printed
! mage still thrill the reading soul. Gamer
! them out of this primitive school house,
| closet them in the Colonial Congress IN
! Philadelphia 10 fashion out CT their own
minds. their own destiDes and that OF
their own nation and what was the re
suit?
In religion the churches Of yesterday
| were bare and cold, no frcsco on the wall.
no inward vision of spiritual thucs; no
organ rolled ats music to lead their praise;
no gifted voices IN n selected chou lHled
them out OF Themselves on the Wd&cn
wings OF lcsrus; no grace oi Thetorc maze
theology easy. They were !eit To the DC.
vcoUmont OF Their own inward sources OF
praise. of prayer and OF thought. And
what Homeric characters they were! iona
7 than Edwards in barren StuLkbudge mnde
himself the first philosopher Of his age.
Il may we'll be feared that tine church ol
today Is doing Tor the young people lnht
what the schools arc dong for them, sur
rounding them with eyer increasing OUTSIDE
religious props and stays-soclctes, CLUBS,
brothoThools. guilds, and now, 10 add TO
this. comes the thrtatonmg addition oi a
SstICntiGC pedagogy" fog the simplicity OF
the Sunday-school Some OF yon were
brought up in a Sunday-SchoGl where there
were Just two outside sources 10 help, the
Rfh!e and a question book without an
I ENtTSs 4 on 4teID' ~ hJbN sVHa ''f'|.N
Won came out OF that school into the
church and into a Christian service that
has filed the wc~sd with Christian phlan'
taropy. The Sunday-sChoois oi our chli
dren are furnished with Na!.ombrosa OF
lc son lsapSs-- primary -lnicEinedlatc, quar-,
fCrly, and the teachers with a variety ut
Aclps, ready matess5p Qsit,Q ns; to oe fonst,
lATizcd IN the EogH DotwCen breakfast ana
S4ndavschoOl kss the average sgh srsfD
,urn to the second chapter OF Iephaniab
or OF Titus and see the vain turning, over
Of unfamiliar pages. What can you cI'
pcct? How should they cultivate ne an
.ard source ofB memory and. refieei1on
when YOU have excused them by supplying
them with all conceivable outside SUI ports
that make memory and reflection super.
Huous. DO you Remember that solemn
Lafable OF the seed falling on stony ground
g,lirllly growing on the shallow soil aud AZ
eaiekly withcrng before the heat and the
drought Of the grovingyysayf because hay
ins exhausted the supply 6r the, outside
source 1T had no root IN ltsolt.' As
Christian men. let us lean less and less on
there tempQrarY- aud childish outside sup
ports and develop these inward sources
~ thought. of reflection OF conscience, OF
high duty with Which God has cudowcI vs.,
Bist amid all these tInfs' ( Of tasii and Of
fral we may rise ~ tie sea ghI rises
against drowning wave, binding spray,
tafiing wind rises into the calm OF the
upper AR by means ot ts owpswell disci'