The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-01-11

only In the state, but also In the ever
tasting kingdom of God. For. what
children of day. A thousand fore
tokens OF Immortality inspire the con-
iidencc that we are pilgrims all. all
who are right with God. to n promised
land, 10 Il home not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. That home
as well as this should therefore be In
view In all our soul processes. Faith.
nope, love must then come first In any
theory OF education. for by faith. which
on the side of intellect ig convict ion,
on the side of VIII obedience, on the
side Of feeling trust, we connect our
selves with God. with the inexhaustl-
BILE resources of His kingdom.
some months ago 1 went through the
electric power house at Talla ahasSee
which supplies light and power fGr
Montgomery. 80 miles off. stood De
fore series OF dialS, whose hands were
restless indicating the amount of DOW
er drawn off. / could read the record
OF every old street car that ratified up
n tedious hill or carried Il heavy load.
There was no perceptible limit to the
amount OF available power. Wonder
inG what regulated the inflow of water
here yielding such power. I was shown
series of great pipes with automatic
valves connected with vast acres of
water above. these valves letting in
exactly the quantity Immediately de-
manded. so that the instant answer
Of the floods above to the call of the
old street car 30 miles away was, "As
thy days may demand shall thy
strength ever be-" / said to myself
this Is Il parable OF life. Back of and
above every heart whose deep. sub
conscious self Is vitall.' connected with
God are the measureless floods OF His
Infinite sea. whose perpetual inflow
regulated by faith, supplements our
weakness with the power Of omnipo-
tcnce.
And wher. life's burdens grow heavy.
its labors hard, its rough way, its long.
steep hills too much for weary feet,
quick as thought comes the inspiring
assurance:
Fear not. I am with thee; oh. be not
dismayed:
I, / am thy God, and will still give
thee aid.
III strengthen thee-help thee, and
cause thee to stand.
Upheld by my righteous. omnipotent
hand"
This Is the only sufficiency for the
hope which grows with the advancing
years and ultimately ripens in glad
fruition. This Ia also the initial stage
or that love whose hungers cannot be
fed with any earthly food-whose re-
sources cannot be exhausted upon any
earthly creature-which cannot come to
'tself In any earthly atmosphere, but
whose source and centre can be only
IN the ever present Fathers change
.ess passion for His children. There
fore, only that system of discipline
which brings us into full Fellowship
with Him-which provides power for
the storm and stress Of life-which
opens up an atmosphere and an out
look for the deepest in US to come to
It's own-which finds US In our finding
Gods. In the long reach Of the
eternal years. worth while.
But there Is yet another view of etln-
eation-that It Is the incre" sing guam
tity. and quality of life, or the intro
ducing Of the soul into the abundant
sife.. Aristotle was rot wide of the
mark when. asked how much educated
men were superior to uneducated. he
tepiied: AS much as the living are
40 not known-dead to all I cannot
think-dead to all cannot do-dead to
all l cannot feel. What, for example.
would redemption's choral song mean
10 the 6irds or the air. the beasts Of
your feet? What, after all. is life
Whatever 1t may be In essence, the
test of Its presence Is responsiveness.
The wood. the stone respond to moth
ihg' tIg' the plant to one kind Of influence;
the animals to a different kind and q
greater number; men TO yet other
Kinds and still greater plumbers. The
man that lives on the mere physical
plane, chiefly to physical stimuli; the
one VINO nVes chiefly on the inteliectu-
al plane, to intellectual stimuli: the one
who lives mainly on the spiritual plane.
to spiritual stimuli
The quality OF our lives Is determined
by the kind to which we respond: the
:t Inantt:t 6y the numbeI and COM
oIeteness OF our. responses: the ideal is
responsiveness to the whole range of
stimuli and TO each class in its
proper proportion.
Education multiplies the number of
our responsesEincreases their speed.
accuracy and efficiency, and gives to
each It's proper power over us. When
Jesus called Himself the "BreaI of
Life, He was Saying that He would
so SO reed the spiritual hungers of men
ae anonees TO deUei1p ~ .I and regulate their re-
versai truth, and He has thus BET the
type for all true education. Every
teacher should be the Bread OF Life
to his pupils. To create responsive
narrow life; to a disproportionate
raange; is to make a distorted life;
therefore. to respond to Nature. i'm ali
Us variations, to men in all their inter-
In oil ages, and leave God
2 soul dead to the highest things here
ana hereafters now and forever For
the modern psychologists tell us that
lne soui is a process-an endless be-
;oihIns, ana When stunned or poison
ed OF perturbed in It's early begin-
nings, who can say how or when the
onward ;lr stream shall cease to carry
We have gone far enough it would
seem, snnrovs to Ps Pc able to assert; with your
9 conscious. dependent upon and in
communion with God in any true
.heory Of education; for to develop,
..tsgu!ate and satisfy every desire but
urn out a distorted soul; to establish
conscious immediate contact with all
'saitty but that which Is behind ali
LII else-is to produce q truncatefi souI:
@ expand the limitations on ali sides.
,ut that from which all else, including
M ne sweetest. inspirations and fellow.
oul; to introduce one into every otf.ar
clement OF his Inheritance but the spir-
tuai is TO bring forth an aborted soul;