The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-01-11
RELIGIONS PRlMACY
AS IN EDUCATION.
Dr. John Rice Emphasizes Value of Religious Training
in Life OF the Studcnt--A Forccful
Argument Presented.
Argument Presented.


chapter of Exodus And Moses wci
Gown from the mount unto the pcO
pie" And Moses brought forth tn
people out OF the camp To meet God.
This was strategic moment in tn
education OF race The lsra"llt"s
after cheCkorcd career. were soon It
be organized into state. Moses. sc.lt
ing first amid Sinai'S awful solitude
his own prcparation 10 be thrii teach
or, is swept out into the cCStat:v fellow
ship OF the uppcr world. comes bar'
to the people radiant with the 2lori":
Of their supe,nal heights and brini
thcm out OF their camps Ia meet God
For they We're To base nll their social
economic. Industrial and religious liz,
tIr,on personal fellowship with tho on,
eternal God and upon that fellowship
stake their destiny ~ people. such
was their iilSt lesson In citizenship.
We are noW tn send forth the south
Carolina college university shall
Sty"-to hc to the citizens of the new
Palmetto state. in rart at least. what
Moses was To the Children Of Israel.
should think tonight Of "'rhc Primacy
OF Religion in EducatiOn." And II f.
necessary first of all 10 seek TO under
stand what we mean by education.
Viewed from ON" standpoint It Is the
Development. regulation and SatiSfar-
ton of th" souls fundamental desires.
Rack OF all human motives and effort
ere lonGings native in every moral
heart for health. wealth. soriabiity.
knowledge. beauty. rightnees. God
The call made by the physical basis
OF III" for tr"injng in the art of living
the most difficult and the least under
stood OF all the fine arts, need not de-
tain us and wc pass to the desire for
wealth. The productive power OF cul-
t,rc is only now beginning to be felt.
The business world is calling for COL
lcre men.
1t is being discovered that those elc-
mcnts or mar nhood which are brought
to their fullneSs by college training are
the very ones that produce results in
every field of cndenvor. a year or 50
ago Dr. w. ". Smith of Virginia
studied the list Of 1852 Americans Of
more than local note published In
view OF determining what effect cducu-
tion Of the various grades has had on
success in life. 1t thus appears. says
DR.. Smith:
1st. That an uneducated child has
one chance In 10000 of attaining dis
tinction as factor In the progress Of
the age.
I'd. That common school education
VIII increase his chances nearly four
times
ID Tha. :: high :c!:co. :-a.:,..;, wi.
incrense the chances Of the common
School boy 23 times. giving him 81
times the chances OF the uncducnted
4th. That college education In
boy nine times. giving him 2l9 times
the chance Of the common school boy.
ana more than 800 times the chance OF
the unframed
It is surprising fact that OF 1859
'notnbles" thus gathered 4S1O proved
10 ne fun graduates of colleges.
While the making OF money Is only
one kind Of success It Is still true that
those localities which have educated
most have held the supremacy in com
W. oh c11o
States best investment is In her
sons and daughters. The present
growing nscendancy OF labor over
capital is due to the dependence OF
tion or science to practical problems
and the efficiency Of skilled labor in
managing these mammoth machines.
but real wealth Is not simply mn-
eomnete % bosSsnS,oms Wii hom. NO personality is
things which orders them about,
moulds them at the caprice of It's own
imagination" marshnls them to it's
service. The creative instinct. which
Is Is IN US all; is the psychological found
ation or all industrial education. The
blacksmith. the cabinetmaker Is more
a master of the world than many mil
iionaires without this sense OF domin-
ION. '-Thou madest him n little lower
OF sman's place in the universe. The
real poverty. OF the Congo cannibal in
st: Eouisstfat put his face against the
wire fence between me and him and
cried. money. money" consisted not
In the lack Of money. but in helpless
ness before the limitless resources OF
nature. For wealth s mans first
realiZation Of independence among
world forces"
Not less important in the progress OF
sen mchievement Is the desire for So
cla pllity, for those spiritual reactions
OF personality upon personality. which
peiong TO intercourse between individ-
us'io nnseu upon mutual recognition
or personal integrity and worth, To |
and socinlize the down
most man" ought to he the passinn of
every. state and of every institution.
me INFINITE worth Of the worst calls
Tor the spirit Of Jesus. which assumes
hat none are beyond the reach Of tire
css love and that the bringing of one
soul to Itself We're Of more value than
All the world beside. You remember
Holmes story Of the old desk-how on
!. !, visit to the old homestead he was
,identally touched spring that re-
eased n secret drawer never before |
opened. The desk had been In the
anil ,amliy for generations but nobody ever
eft In it at the making were still
'resh. So beneath the cyclonic whirIs
u the outer life there is in us ali n
loden recess where precious treasures
tG hiuuen. 1t ls the mission OF the wise
educator to release them and bring
hem to the service of society. Some
'ears ago when lived In Darlington
penniless. frendless. half idiotic
iegro. alone In the world, was cutting
wood IN our backyard one day when
'ulS, little blue-eyed boy standing by
ooked up into his face and said
George, I love you" The negro
hrew down the axe and went away
uttering to himself as far as we
ouid hear him. Somebody loves me:
omebody loves me. loves me; loves
ne! Five years after we had left
mere, while on visit to the town. I
net George on the street, and when he
ccosnized me he asked only one ques-
off down the street. NUT
ering. II must see old Blue some
ime." His whole life had been made
yer by one sentence from little curly
lended boy. So the touch Of lofty