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

larSeIy HNed IN Inc COIleBe period. Mer
rarely get new classes OF ideas or in
tcrcsts after they are 25 or 80. Ant
Goethe was not far wrong I'm saying
that the world is ruled by the opinions
Of men under "a. Both the scope anl
the speed OF after development are de-
tcrmiued within this period. ! hearG
an address on Little Things wher
only n boy. in which the speaker said
ants had Il regular system Of warfare
a regular rcti.iue of servants and even
milk cows. was as;ounded. but from
| that day to this these little people have
had an undynS interest for me- Car
Isle could rcwrite the French RevOlu-
tiOn when destroyed but helDlessly la
mcnted his inability to make the ac-
quaintancc of tiny neghbors that daily
shall be given is as universal as the
law OF Bravit2iion. What we get out
Of the world depends upon what we
bring to the world. Men went TO the
Chicago fair and saw nothin.; but Buff
falo l}ill, or To the st. Louis fair and
saw nothing but the Boer war or the
Filipinos. Not only Is the scope
OF our future sOul movements deter
mined thus early but the speed OF our
requirement as well. Hc that has but
litu: to build to will build but slowly,
while all truth hurries to the heart that
! knows. Hence Goethe's warning: BE
careful what you pray for in youth,
lest you get too much Of ii i'm old age"
| This brings Il solemn warning to the
| youth that takes n wrong attitude to-
that attitude after leaving college
walls Hence the soul whose lmita-
| tons are freed on every other side
but bound on this has but little chance
to the highest in after years. When
MnrcOni sent nia first wireless mes
sage to a ship In mid-occan only that
one which was attuned to the home
office, Of all that were sailing on the
deep caught the dying sentences.
| Only the sailors on lifes tempestous
sca who are in tune with the infinite
can catch the flying messages Of truth
and love that are thrusting In upon us
| i,ll from far away shores. from abysmal
deeps. from transcendent heights. He
who leaves college without meeting
God Will likely remain forever a
known to the human heart.
| The ideal soul on the contrary will
be so liberated. expanded, as to draw
tomorrow's horizon outside today's.
next weeks outside this weeks. next
months outside this months. next
years outside this years. the next
| life's outside this life's.
Yet again, education can be regard
cd In the words OF President Butler as
the bringing Of the soul into It's com
left us by our fathers Is not primari-
ly In material wealth but in the things
| OF the mind no outer titles can Sc
cure. Their joys and sorrows. their
hopes and fears, their faith and doubt.
| their aspirations and disappointments,
their thoughts. their efforts. their
heart passions. are crystallized in the
litera lure Of every generation. Their
| successive efforts to classify and ex-
plain the phenomena Of the universe
philosophy The results Of their strug-
gles tn achieve Themselves In associa-
tion with each other have come down
to us In the institutions Of society;
their reVelings in the picturesque. the
sublime and the beautiful are preserv-
ed for us In the field of aesthetics.
Deepest of all in the struggles OF the
race has been the religious instinct. 1t
has ever laid It's hand relentlessly upon
the best that men had and written
much Of its history in human blood.
Through the ages 1t has been search
ing for three things: A higher power
upon whom 1t could depend, a higher
personality with whom 1t could COM
mune. an adequate outlook for It's un-
dying yearnings after Immortality
cry OF Philip, "show us the Father
and it sufflceth us" and perfectly an
swered In the reply of Jesus He that
hath seen me hath seen the Father"
which men In all ages since have
verified and approved with universal
past Is the total experience Of the race,
deepest, most universal. most abiding
Of all. their religious experience. Hux-
ley bids us think Of life as game of
Is playing on the other side. How men
and nations have played and won,
played and lost, what movea we can
not make as well as what we cnn-to
know this is at once to deepen the
shallow. strengthen the weak and
nP "a
viduul.
Not only the experience of the past
but the racs consciousness Of the pres.
ent Is among our highest possessions.
social mind, in the solidarity of the
race and can play his part only by
vital touch with the whole. Whether
we consider the experience Of the past
or the present the one all important
element In our Inheritance, the one
which none dare overlook or disregard.
Is the spiritual: Poor beyond expr ss-
sion is the child that gets all else and
misses this. We are brought there
fore. again, to, appreciate the course
of Moses In making God basal In all
education and government.
But suppose we consider the pro-
cess of education to be the training OF
the capacities and powers Of the soul
into complete self command. This
wo@d ean the nf OF
tireiess concentration Of the whole soul
on given point, OF resourceful
memory. Of clear and quick insight in
to facts. forces. situations. problems,
ones own opinion into things. of q
sense Of perspective In relations and
comparative values. visible and in
visible us they are, the development OF
minute discrimination. Of accurate,
dispassionate judgment, Of logical
thinking which goes right to the point,
q SlSien of thought "de-
tecting what Is sophistic,al and dis
carding what issirrelevant, the liber- |
alton of free, constructive imagina-
tfon, Of an appreciative. aesthetic |
feeling. Of an elestic range Of delicate
as well as deep emotion, the enthron-
ing Of n will that counts the doing OF |
the impossible. the glory Of living. OF |
faith that rests only in ultimate, final
and eternal things, of a hope based on
that faith. with an endless outlook. OF