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

rarely get new classes of ideas or in
terests after they are % or 80 And
Goethe was not far wrong III saying
that the world is ruled by the opinions
Of men under -. Both the scope and
the speed Of after development are de-
terlnined within this period. l heard
an address on Little Things when
only a boy, in which the speaker sald
ants had a regular system OF warfare,
a regular retinue OF servants and even
milk COWS. I was astounded, but from
that day to this these little people have
had an undying interest for ne. Car
Isle could rewrite the French ReVolu-
ton when destroyed but he!plessly Ia
mented his inability to make the ac-
Guaintance OF tiny neishbors that daily
crossed his path. To him that hath
shall be given is as universal as the
law Of gravitation. What We get out
of the world depends upon what we
bring to the world. Men went to the
Chicago fair and saw nothing but But
falo Bill, or 70 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 we'll. He that mas put
little to build to will build but slowly,
while all truth hurries to the heart thar
knows. Hence Goethe's warning: BE
careful what you pray for in youth,
lest YOU get too much Of it in old age.
This brings a solemn warning to the
youth that takes wrong attitude to-
wards religion, for but few change
that attitude after leaving college
walls. Hence the soul whose limita-
tions are freed on every other side
but bound on this has but little chance
to the highest in after years. When
Marconi sent his first wireless mes
sage to a ship in mid-ocean Cnly that
one which was attuned to the home
Office, of all that were sailing on the
deep caught the flying sentences.
Only the sailors on life's tempestous
sea who are in tune with the lnnnte
can catch the flying messages or truth
and love that are thrustlnS IN upon US
all from far away shores, from aoysnal
deeps, from transcendent heights. he
VINO leaves college without meeting
God will likely remain forever a
str .1ger to the sweetest felloWshlps
knc-"l 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
ed in the words of President Butler as
the bringing of the soul into its com
plete inheritance. The real heritage
left US by our fathers is not prlmarl-
ly in material wealth but In the Things
of the mind no outer titles can Sc
cure. Their joys and sorrows, thelIT
hopes and fears, their falth ana oouot'
their aspirations and dlsappolntnents,
their thoughts, their eforts, tnelI
heart passions, are crystallized IN the
literature of every generation. Their
successive efforts to classify and eH-
plain the phenomena Of the universe
lie in the various fields Of science ana
philosophy. The results Of their struS-
eles to achieve themselves IN assocla-
lion 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 aesthetlcs.
Deepest of all in! the struggles OF the
race has been the religious instinct. IL
has ever laid it's hand relentlessly upon
the best that men had and Wrltten
much of its history in human olooo'
Through the ages it has been search
ing for three things: A higher power
unon whom it could depend, a higher
personality with whom it could COM
nune, an adequate outlook for its IN
diving warnings after immortality
This search was perfectly voiced in the
cry Of Philip, "Show US the t'atner
and il sufficeth u.s. and perfectly an
svered in the reply Of Jesus, he ina!
hath seen me hath seen the Father
which men in all ages since nave
verified and approved with a universal
..amen." In word, the heritage o. the
mast is the total experience OF the race
deepest, most universal, most ao1qlls
Of all, their religious experience. AuH-
lev bids us think Of life as a game OF
cIess only we cannot see the one who
is playing on the other side. HOW men
and nations have played and Won'
p;ayed and lost, what moves we can
not make as we'll as what we can-to
know this is at once to deepen tns
shallow. strengthen the weak ana
hroaden the narrow life Of the indl-
vidual. 49,, o>.+
1,,t the race consciousness Of the pres
ent is among our highest possessions
Each Individual is an element IN me
social mind, in the solidarity OF lne
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 1mportaht
element in our inheritance, the one
which none dare overlook or olsreSdIu'
is the spiritual. Poor beyond express
sion is the child that gets all else allo
misses this. We are brought there-
fore. again, to appreciate the course
of Moses in making God basal IN all
oa,,oo +;o,, and government.
Eut SUPPOSE we consider the pro.
cess of education to be the training OF
the capacities and powers OF the SOU
into complete self command. rms
would mean the development OF al!
ever widening range of attention, OF
tireless concentration Of the whole soul
on given point, Of resource!ui
memory. of clear and quick insight IN
to facts, forces, situations. problems
ones own opinion into tnlngs' OF
sense of perspective in relations anu
comparative values, visible ana IN
visible as they are, the development Oh
minute discrimination, OF acGurats ts;
dispassionate judgment, of losical
thinEing which goes right to the point,
Sisentansles skien Of thought, de
tectins what is sophistical and dis
carGing what is irrelevant" the hoer-
alton of free, constructive magma
ton. of an appreciative, aesthetlc
feeling, of an eiestic range OF deilcate
as we'll as deep emotion, the enthron-
ing of a will that counts the dong ci
the impossible, the glory of living. OF
faith that rests only in ultimate, tlnai
and eternal things, Of a hope oaseo on
that faith, with an endless OUTLOOK VI
a love that finds its satisfaction only
in the infinite, the training of powers
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