Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-06-03

The pilgrim fathers landed In Plymoutn
In 1920, yet only sixteen years later, or
In 1886, we find that Harvard college
was founded in Cambridge on the out
skirts Of Boston. We find the Dutch
and the English settlers drifting down
into Connecticut, and what happenedF
There Yale college Is started In 17Ol
at Saybrook. We go south, and what
do we find? Pennsylvania and all the
middle states honeycombed with col
leges and academies. We 90 west, and
there institutions Of learning are scat
tered everywhere. The schoolroom desk
Is seen at almost every crossroad, and
the college is intrenched in nearly
every town. All, yes, the modern Ma
poleOn would have hard work here
to start an international conflict just
for fun or to crafty his ambitions.
He would have hard work to upset
us financially, socially or politically.
Why? Because the people Of this age
In our beloved land have too much in
telligence to follow such leader as the
Little Corsican."
Liberty and Education.
What Is the practical application OF
this thought? Chief among the endur-
ing guarantees of future peace is the
presence Of our schools and school
teachers in foreign lands. Too much
money cannot be expended upon our
public school system. Porto Rico and
the Philippines will never be truly con-
Quered for America until American
schools have educated those colonlsts
and taught them to realize the mean
ing Of American liberty. That was a
very wise move of the United States
government which a few years ago
brought the Cuban schOolteachers un-
der the classic walls of old Harvard.
Roberts college in ConstantinOple and
the Presbyterian schools at Beirut are
the two wedges which shall overthrow
the brutalities of the Turkish empire.
China, through the influence Of our
missionary schools, shall yet become a
gigantic nation, sworn to perpetual
peace and to forever avert the horrors
of another Boxer uprising. And that
vast government of Russia, made up
of mary mixed peoples and heteroge-
neous nationalities, speaking as many
different tongues as did the workmen
at the tower Of Babel, shall yet become
one through the missions Of peace. Oh,
my friends, we cannot honor too much
our public schoolteachers and the pro-
fessors Of our colleges as among the
greatest of wonder 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
professors who have given to us our
education, but we also honor men like
D. X. Pearson, who with their money
have made it possible for this same
kind Of teachers to carry that educa-
ton to some who would never be able
to get it but for their beneficence. |
consider d. X. Pearson one Of the
most practical and far reaching philan-
| thropists Of this age. He does not take
his money and pile it 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 coun-
try, away from the great centers He
gives there a few thousand dollars and
yonder a few thousand dollars, and
everywhere his money goes to strug-
| Cling colleges, where it is bringing
forth it's fruit, some thirty, some sixty
and some a hundredfold. To show
what good his money Is doing, | 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 as
sociation Of one Of these inStitutiOnsW
well" answered the distinguished
| iurist, 81 do not know whether 1 would
have made greater success had /
been educated in the east instead Of In
y little farmers college In the west.
But this one fact l know-had there
not been little farmers college near
to my fathers farm l would never
have received an education at ALL"
When we praise the schooteacher as
messenger of international peace we
must also praise the noble men who
| give of their wealth TO support the
schools in out of the way places. We
must also praise the Christian dis
ciples who give Of their little to sup
port teachers In foreign lands as well
as to help support the small sectarian
schools and colleges in our own.
The Place of the Church.
But what good does mere knowledge
do unless II is balanced by moral char
| acter? What good does it do to plant
DR.. Duff's missionary schools in India
or ROBBERS college in Constantinople
or our own schools In America unless
moral and spiritual development keeps
pace with mental growth? None, aDso-
lutely none. So today, as the greatest
messenger of international peace,
plant the church Of the Lord Jesus
Christ between the legislative hall Of
the Just statesman and the schoolhouse
Of the just teacher, for l find that the
church of Christ is the main leayen
which leavens the purity Of govern
mental law as well as the chief herald
which is scattering true knowledge to
the farthcrmost parts of the earth.
Why does the church Of the Lord
Jesus Christ do all this? Because the
very essence of its belief bids it to
carry this gospel work everywhere
! AS it looks forth into the great wide
world it sees deep into the hearts Of
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