The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-01-11


any Yet put forth. Il life richer. fuller
more powerful than that yet lived. as
well as Il greater place IN the larger
social content. These upward and out
ward impulses are the sucioluoist's Do
sire for rightHcsS, which is an c!cmon,
in every normal individual. IIduraiiOr
seeks To develop. regulate ana satisfy
thcS" desires for health. wealth. S0cia-
ability. knowledge. duty, rightncSS.
There is one other. and that the most
fundamrntal universal and vital OF all
have put it last, but Moses put ii
first, for IN response 10 It's call he be-
gan by bringing the people out OF the
camp To meet God.
trcedS hanSe;
All outward forms
Kccast themselves
Sacred groves. temples and churches
J fiSc ana rot ana fall.
Races and nations
! ana the various tongues OF men
/ Come and go and are
! RccUr,icd, numbered
And forgotten in the repetition
And the drift
! or many ages.
| All outward circumstances
May be different
1iut there lives no man
Nor ever lived one
! Who In the silence Of his heart
Feeling his need
| Has not cried out
| Shani.i, some prayer
| TO the unclianginS God.
THIS desire is. therefore, as truly n
part Of the normal personality rs any
other. and to fall short OF developing,
regulating and satisfying 1t. Is TO fall
short OF making men and women. and
10 fall utterly where failure is most
| disastrous. for If every other cry of
| the heart Is answered and this is
sinothcred or hushed the student leaves
| his alma mater n mutilated soul.
Again. we may regard education as
the introducing OF the soul into i'm
| mediate. conscious contact with reality.
And what is reality? Everything there
Is III this or any other world. Any man
That looks about him will ut times be
overwhelmed by the Infinite stretches
or buundless space. When he tries to
think OF It's contents he is forced to
begin with frictionless medium In all
ana fiIling all. And moving with ire
slst!ple power and unthinkable sDeed
IN this Infinite sea he finds tireless en-
ergy gathering here, distributing there
iViniis iierc, reforming there. a closer
glance reveals universal reign of
cause and effect indefinite order of Sc
qucnce ana reason seems supreme over
ali. yet closer glance brings TO light
q ceaseiess struggle from lower TO
nlsher. from inaninatc to animate and
from lower to higher grades of life
Everything seems to be pushing up-
ward toward man. the elimination OF
an. VINO himself. is working in ever
ro .. ars S @ T'"SS' vi progress toward q
lar Ia! or goal. For
i doubt not thro' the ages one in
creasng purpose runs,
ana me thoughts Of men are widen'd
WIN inc process Of the suns
But the heart cannot rest hero. Il
must find back Of all this cause out
or which 1t all comes back OF all na
turc; an Intelligent first cause, back
oi al history purposeful mind and Il
tntEoDing fnti,og heart, back Of every child
Let us be reminded that the whole
range OF reality. this educational mn.
Ierlal, is unit not to be cut up and
aealt a with In sections. Dealing with
ha playground M of all our thinking must
.2 pe feit the whole fast range of things.
me breadth Of our educntion will he
determined by the extent to which this
a,,. is true: specialism that is sane can
arise only when with this whole back
ground in view. a portion Of reolitw 10
srasped and mastered. We must not
forget also Tint the soul is not an az
Sresnte or separablc facilities, but a
nii ,it' -, euch or whose activities involve
an tne others. So simple process az
en net OF Judgment involves thinking.
Ieellng. willing also. The ideal edurn
tion seeks to bring the whole range ~
realty reality and the extent Of this contact
tsa, Mmi measure n1, the extent Of our educa-
ION. but the central element in ali reni.
cause. We can touch II nowhere wiz
out touching Him. He Is back OF nil
me me materials of psychic movement.
and have '" their eIr tbnshgs baInS liYe and move
education Is conscious contact with
reality. the ideal education cnnsoin,,s
contact OF the whole soul, with the
sd,'ne.i Mr,u,e range or reality. then nothing is
tect With Him. AMI none IDEAL that
does not seek to bring in glad cant,,.;t,
every thought to the obedience OF Hin
we we come again. therefore. by another
WA, whn. 70 TO the position Of Moses with
tsa Wmom the beginning Of all true educa-
h,,n t,uL, ana statecraft alike was the
bringing OF God to the people and tho
bringing % of the people to God.
me same conclusion Is reached if
so'i.s 'i1n 1,n,,. ne the expansion of the
mood. There are roughly two worlds
open TO us all. that Of sense in which
we are bern and from which alas too
,,,ainy ,,any never escape and that Of thought,
t,rs. s,saoh' l. sentiment mt. The diameter of the
: 20 ou Iinger tip, or at most the distance
across ones premises or material
possessions. Only material things are
saere. sa e. only what can be smelled. tast-
ural "eYea eye teIt snuened, seen with the nat
this t savage race" that hoard and
sleep. and feed. and know 'nothing"
1t ts the mission OF the educator to
,ead LEI, us out Of this. to liberate us. to
Ihae untraveled world. whose margin
,as Iades forever and forever, when
Helping, us to escape "thc merctless
miles OF the plain" and to ..fiy
IN the greatness OF God as q
marsh hen flies
In the freedom that fills all the space
twixt the marsh and the sj.ies y
The possible as compared -,.;th the
actual area of our lives Is evidenced |
by the fact that of the 500, ,Ooo. 900 Of
than third are ever dIscharre1. md
by the fact that OF the $50, 900 words In
english dictionaries few of us use
more than 5000 to 5000, even Shakes-
peare commanding only i6 600 Miii.,n