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

duce us into the eternal life. which
alone prepare us for citizenship not
only III the state. but also in the ever
lasting kingdom Of God. For, what
ever else We are, we refuse to be called
! children Of day. n thousand lore
tokens Of immortality inspire the con
! fidence that We are pilgrims al. all
land. to 4 home hot made With hands,
eternal in the heavens. That home
as we'll as this should therefore be IN
view in all our soul processes. Faith,
hope, love must then come first IN any
theory OF education. for by faith. Whlch
on the side Of intellect is conviction.
on the side OF. will obedience, on the
side Of feeling trust, We connect our
selves with GOD, with the ineXhaustl-
BILE resources Of His kingdom.
Some months ago I Went through the
| electric power house al Tallahassee
which supplies light and power for
Montgomery. 80 miles off. l stood be-
fore series Of Clials. whose hands were
restless indicating the amount OF pow
| er drawn off / could read the record
OF every old street car that rattleo up
2 tedious hill or carried a heavy load.
| There was no perceptible limit 10 the
amount OF available pow" Wonder
ing what regulated the inflow OF water
here yielding such power. was shown
a series OF great pipes with AUTOMATIC
water above, these valves letting IN
exactly the quantity Immediately de-
manded. 50 that the instant answer
of the floods above to the call OF the
old street car 80 miles away was, AS
thy days may demand shall thy
strength ever be-" I said to myself
this is d parable Of life. Back Of and
above every heart whose deep. sub
conscious self is vitality connected with
God are the measureless floods Of HIS
infinite sea, whose perpetual inflow.
regulated by faith, supplements our
weakness with tie power of omnipo-
tence.
And when life's burdens grow heavy.
it's labors hard, its rough way. its long,
steep hills too much for weary feet,
quick as thought comes the inspiring
assurance:
Fear not, am with thee; oh. be not
disnayed;
I, I am thy God and will still give
thee aid.
I'll 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 is also the initial stage
of 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
itself in any earthly atmosphere. but
whose source and centre can be only
in the ever present Fathers change
less passion for His children. There
fore, only that system of discipline
which brings US into full fellowship
with Hin-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
God-is, in the long reach of the
eternal years, worth While.
| But there is yet another view Of edu-
cation-that it is the increasing guam
| tity and quality of life, or the intro
| ducing Of the soul into the abundant
life. Aristotle was not wide of the
mark when, asked how much educated
men were superior to uneducated. he
replied: "As much as the living are
70 the dead!" For I am dead to all
do not known-dead to all I cannot
think-dead to all I cannot do-dead to
all I cannot feel. What, for example,
would reGemption's choral song mean
to the birds Of, the air, the beasts of
the field or the dog that crouches at
your feet? What, after ALL is life?
| Whatever it may be in essence, the
| test of it's presence is responsiveness.
The wood the stone respond to moth
ing; the plant to one kind of influence;
| the animals to a different kind and a
greater number; men to yet other
kinds and still greater numbers. The
man that lives on the mere physical
plane, chiefly to physical stimuli; the
one who lives chiefly on the intellectu-
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
quantit.', by the number and COM
pleteness of our responses; the ideal. is
responsiveness to the whole range of
stimuli and to each class int its
proper proportion.
Education n1u1tiplies the number Of
our esponses-increases their speed,
accuracy and efficiency. and gives to
each its proper power over us. When
Jesus called Himself the BREAD of
Life" He was saying that He would
so feed the spiritual hungers of men
as to develop and regulate their re-
sponses to the infinite stimuli of uni
versal truth, and He has thus set the
type for all true education. Every
teacher should be the Bread Of Life
to his pupils. To create responsive
ness to a narrow range is to make a
narrow life; to disproportionate
range. is to make distorted life:
therefore, to respond to Nature, in all
it's variations, to men in all their inter-
dependencies in all ages and leave God
out in the naking'of a soul, is to make
a soul dead to the highest things here
and hereafter, now and forever. For
the modern psychologists tell us that
| the soul is a proceSS-an endless be-
coming, and when stunned or poison
ed or perturbed in its early begin
nings, who can say how or when the
onward stream shall cease to carry
the effects.
! We have gone far enough it would
seem, to be able to assert, with your
approval, the primacy Of religion which
is conscious, dependent upon and in
communion with God in any true
theory of education; for to develop.
regulate and satisfy every desire but
the deepest and most universal, is to
turn out a distorted soul; to esta blish
conscious immediate contact with all
reality but that which is behind all
else, causing all else-the medium of
| all else-is to produce truncated soul;
! to expand the limitations on all sides,
! but that from which all else, including
the sweetest inspirations and fellow
| ships come, is to make a contracted