The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-04

workers, who are teaching us that war shall be no more !
 And here let me state another fact. We not only honor the teachers and pro- fessors who have given to us our eduea- tion but we also honor men like D. K. Pearson, who with their money have made it possible for this same kind of teachers to carry that education to some who would never be able to get it but for their beneficence. I consider D. K. Pearson one of the most practical and far-reaching philanthropists of this age. He does not take his money and pile 1t up in some great city university, while the young people can find an education in many other schools near at hand, but he gives here and there a few thousand dollars to struggling colleges far out in the country away from the great cen ters. He gives there a few thousand dol lars and wonder a few thousand dollars, and everywhere his money goes to strug- gling colleges, where it is bringing forth
 its fruit, some thirty, some sixty and some hundredfold. To show what good his money is doing, I would quote the words spoken by great judge in the east A friend came to him one day and said Judge, don't you think you would have made your success quicker if you had graduated from Yale or Harvard or Princeton and had had the help of the alumni association of one of these insti- tutions?" Well" answered the distin- guished jurist, T know not whether l would have made a greater success had I been educated in the east instead of in a little farmers college in the west. But this one fact I know-had there not been little farmers college near to my fath- CTS farm I would never have received an education at all" When we praise the school teacher as a messenger Of .. ,f. otcc the noble men who give of their wealth to support the schools in out of the way places. We must also praise the Chris tian disciples who give of their little to support teachers in foreign lands as we'll as to help support the small secta- rian schools and colleges in our own.
 Place of the Church.
 But what good does mere knowledge do unless it is balanced by moral char acter? What good does it do to plant Dr. Duff's missionary schools in India or Roberts college in Constantinople or our own schools in America unless moral and spiritual development keeps pace with the mental growth? None, abso- lutely none. So today, as the greatest messenger of international peace. l plant the church of the Lord Jesus Christ be- tween the legislative hall of the just statesman and the schoolhouse of the just teacher, for 1 find that the church of Christ is the main leaven which leavens the purity of governmental law as well as the chief herald which is scattering true knowledge to the furthermost parts os the earth
 Why does the church of the Lord Jesus Christ do all of this? Because the very essence of it's belief bids it to carry this gospel work everywhere. As 1t looks forth into the great wide world it sees deep into the hearts of men There it finds that. though men may be divided into different classes, yet, after all they all belong to one great class. That class says We are all weary. We are all troubled. We are all sick at heart at best. inere- fore it is our duty as far as in us lies to try to bear each others burdens through the help of Jesus Christ" Thus everywhere the gospel missionaries are going. Everywhere they are planting their schools. Everywhere they are try ing to make the stronger nations help the weaker and to make each nation care for the weak among its own subjects
 Never since the coming of Jesus Christ to earth was there a better time for the consummaton of the worlds peace than