The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-01-10

;ligion and education are alike social.
The brotherhood Of man and the faith
erhood of God are the inspiration and
| the watchWord OF both. The ideal
scholar. like the ideal Christian. IS a
! man with broad human Sympathles
who thrills in responsive Outgo TO every
! human call and need. The scholar IS
! interested in the life and history OF the
i race because it is the means of culti-
waiting and elevating the men OF today.
! Lie educates life. Colleges and uni
versities are agencies for gathering.
garnering. preserving and appropriate
! ing the whole life Of the past through
! libraries. museums and manuscripts.
! creeds and codes. The experience Of
! the race is thus brought in contact
! with the minds o. the men Of today:
and from this race experience We learn
! TO guide life more wisely and increase
| its power.
Lofty Aspirations.
| The work of education and religion
| is inspired by noble ambitions. far
reaching and beneficent; they yearn
| for the comple1est culture Of the in
! dividual and for the Improvement Of
! the nation. the race: they desire to
bless al: they seek to elevate all.
Let Us make a parable Of their work
| based upon the land reclamation SER
vice Of the United States. by which
| thousands Of acres have already been
| reclaimed: fields. gardens, groves, and
homes now flourish where once
stretched wastes of arid sand and rock
! Rivers rising in tie snowy heights Of
the Rocky mountains are made to flow
! through the deserts and convert them
| into fertile lands. This is a parable Of
| the work of education. Streams Of
learning and culture are borne through
! the minds and hearts of men, convert
ing them from the barren wastes Of
ignorance and vice into the fruitful
fields Of wisdom and virtue The be-
ginning Of this irrigation work was in
the trained minds Of the few men
cultured in the universities Of the land.
The source Of the deserts new found
fruitfulness and beauty is in the far
off mountain heights where the ire
eating rivers We're born. The mind and
the hand of trained men brought the
rivers and deserts together. so from
the mountain peaks Of truth through
the minds of men formed in the uni
| versities to be their channels they flow
down and spread through the race, the
life and the enrichment that make the
desert OF humanity blossom as rose.
This is the scholars and the Christians
goal. to gladden. and make fruitful
the whole earth.
4 Future Golden Age.
Religion and education alike look to
the future for the golden age and to
this great consunma ton they press
constantly and surely through much
resistance, and impeled by unseen
forces. Their progress sometimes
seems slow and their forces small
when compared with the noisy opposi-
ton which they must overcome. Their
vi &c %l,o S,- AWE
Of the iceberg sailing or the sea with
two-thirds of it's heigh. submerged be-
meath the waves. it travels against
winds and surface tides, because i'm
PEELED by dep undercurrents that
drive it on to the southern seas. They
appear to the worlds eye only in part;
so q great cause, and men of strong
great character appear to the worlds
eye only in part. The forces by which
they overcome are unseen: They are
the deep undercurrents of truth and
faith far beneath the surface of opinion
and custom. In majestic strength they
move against popular clamor and creed
toward the bound!ess sea of Gods
truth and right. They are driven by
the deep hiden undertow Of divine force
and law ever at work in the deeps of
life and the heart of the world. They
are controlled, not by the cry of the
crowd. not by the fad of the day or the
fashion of the age, but by the mighty
moral drift Of Gods will that bears on.
resistless and unchanging. against the
surface winds and waves of the mul-
titude's thought and life.
4 solemn question rises in our minds
today as we stand in the shadows Of
the century that is gone. Have we
kept faith with the past? Have we
been true to our covenant? While we
may make no parade, yet standing at
the century's end we may grow renli-
niscent. and in the holy confidence of
friendship tell to sympathetic hearts
some secrets yelled from the world.
The college has passed through dark
days and bright. In times when clouds
hung low the college faculty stood to
of alumni, and inspired by the death
less ideals the college represented. In
those days of gloom many of the fac
ulty refused fattering invitations to
more lucrative and apparently safer
positions in the form OF professorslips
in other institutions and pastorates in
churches. They heard the trumpet call
that sounds in the ears of true men
dedicated to high service: stand fast;
quit you like men; be strong"
They never turned their backs, but
marched breast forward;
Never doubted clouds would break.
Never dreamed, though right were
worsted. wrong would triumph;
Held as creed, we fall to rise, are baf-
fed to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
At night time in the roar Of raging
storm
They stood with faces fixed and ra 6i-
ant
With the light of dawn breaking from
the skies Of hope,
They stood with voices firm and vision
clear,
To greet the unseen with a cheer"
Let US hallow a centennial of service
by making the centennial day reen-
listment day. We reenlist in the SER
vice of the good. Let US solemnly re-
dedicate ourselves to the ideals of truth
and honor, Christian manhood and vir-
tue with vision clearer-with hearts
more tender-with larger means let US
hope. but with the same great work:
The making of Christian gentlemen"
Shall we train scholars? Yes. u IN
of science? Yes. Successful men? Yes.
Train them, too, under a university
flag. We shall strive to go on making
the world better world by helping to
make men who shall do Gods work.
in Gods way. md for Gods glory. Men
who know the right, love the right, and
do the right. Aye. men who will be-
lieve that every blow struck for the