The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-05-19

there is unceasing fellowship be
tween high ideas of God and higI
moral character.
Now, | have said that man is ex
alted or debased as he has high Of
low ideas of God, and to this
want to add that mans idea of Goo
is largely shaped by his concep
tions Of Gods estimate Of man,
Gods estimate of mans worth and
dignity may be learned from such
scriptures as Gen. / .26 27, where
it is said that God created man in
his own image
What ought TO be the purpose
and end of education! To qualify
men and women for business pur-
suitsa TO prepare them for max
ing money! No. The one great
end and purpose of education is
that right ideas of God aud right
conceptions of the capacity of the
human soul, may be formed in the
mind. 1t was when the Psalmist
had discovered the grandeur of his
own being that he exclaimed, 81
am fearfully and wonderfully
made" How true, for almost in
finite possibilities are wrapped up
in every human beingl
AT least the soul of man is able
to wing its flight until it meets the
infinite and links onto it, in every
department Of thought, in science,
art, music, poetry, philosophy and
visions of God. The world has
had many illustrious examples of
this, a few of which | mention:
Newton. the son Of an English
farmer and afterward the discov-
erer of the Calculus and the author
of the Principia, is a splendid IL
lustration of the capacity of the
human mind in mathematics. Let
us go to the little school in the vi
cinity Of his childhood home and
listen to the playground talk Of
the children of the school and we
shall soon learn that key Newton
is regarded as the dullest boy of
his class. Forty years later let us
seat ourselves in the halls of old
Trinity College, of Cambridge,
Eng, and listen to an address by
a man who is now able to give an
accurate description of the move
ments of all the heavenly bodies,
and to tell by what force they are
held in their places. His keen eye
has peered into the secrets Of ma
Eure, and he has seen an invisible |
aw that lies back of visible nature.
The whole universe now seems
open before him and he follows
planets through space as readily
rs though they we're but birds in
lir. Who is itg Sir Isaac New
on! This is but the developed
possibility of key Newton, the
lullard. just as the oak Of the
orest is the developed possibility
# the acorn, or the eagle in the
.ir the developed possibility of the
gg, so the mathematician and
is a development of
Iull boy. And yet Newton said,
i do not know what the world
nay think of my achievements,
'ut as for myself" etc.
But, as in Newton we have an
Illustration of the powers of the
uman mind to see into the pro-
Dund depths of the material uni
erse, in Shakespeare we have an
lustration of one able to look into {
le profounder depths and mys-
cries of human nature. He has
cen styled the greatest uninspired
.udent of man; to him the laws of t
le human soul seem to have been T
J clear as were the laws of the '
Iaterial world to Newton. He G
I'd the ability to place himself
tally in connection with men of y
1ery age, race and condition. To 9
Im the mental and moral charac 3
II of mankind seemed to be an 2
oen kind. He has given the t
orld a second demonstration of
e infinite sweep and capacity of Q
tery soul of man when developed T
"a has proven the proposition 7
at the soul of man islimited only q
i the eternity and in6nity of
od.s
/ might introduce numerous 9TH ii
illustrations of the capacity of p,
Q human soul. / might mention p
andel, Beethoven and Mozart. p
DO have moved the world with /,
onder in their productions of A
nsical harmony. | might men b
~ Raphael and Angelo, who ex- y y
He'd in painting and sculpture. "a a
ther of these when studied with ii