New-York tribune., 1906-12-23


Clearly than he Just what IS the Vital spot TIN IN
speech as warning | and propheey rather M t'Es than
Toned I e VIII nGT the sa a the T Tsf Drift Is n3que
9 fsla OF It's economic misconceptions. and proven
forty-fve years in courageous Industrial and po-
tlea1 , adjustment to the modern world clinging
adiHstmifnt is & sbogt made The grandeur Of united
Notwithstanding his devotion to the idea Of local
SSeslf-goT3ernment 3 He can enter into the mood OF
PERFECTLY to-day than az any time since the death
civilization he's become TO him an economical as
well as a sentimental fact He turn wood and
kan the Mills St New Egnd Rnd ae to0 undeT Datgs
moulding power OF popular education.
Excess Of success and replacement Of its labor
New Englana democracy, TO destroy its .homoge-
1--f - 80 Pei 1' sr+a
ship with fortune and the god of success. Will
this in the belief that it is still true. that when
men look for ust statutes touching human AFFAIRS
books of the New England States. and there is no
70 good causes " with their hearts and % their Brains
ana [he 1 P Pps - thap "a m the na men OF Boston ana the
when race riots occur there are outcries and loud
know how hard II is TO distinguish between the
moral ana economic phases Of such a problem as
here tonight that the people Of the South are
bot6 n6arre e ad ouId tbe national deveIopnent @
for three hundred years as wisely as any people on
African freedom and IN q time Of human Torment
and struggle IN all lands.
VIII the age long antagonism between New Eng
d and the south sF sv; ena3 They are peoples & 81
never lie down in lion and lamb like fashion; nor
IS that necessary desirable for the stability Of
once drove them TO war for their ideals of Ameri-
phases, fate may bring them 70 understanding and
The result of the Civil War, by producing g so
cial and economic unItc1GOu the life OF the
South. has caused that life TO assume closer
England The centre. Of gravity he's passed from
who formerly dornatsd the Plantations are build
ing the cities The land Of the country IS being
ties the era Of dffused intelligence is rapidly COM
ing rich
The Colonies and Their Schools was the topic
on which President r S. Luther. Of Trinity Col
lege spoke. He said that the settlers Of the early
seventeenth century had the Joy Of launching out
into the physically unknown Men OF the present
had many unsolved problems he said. He con
tinued:
VIII men learn to fly? How about the Panama
Canal. siInplihed spelling and the Philippines!
Work out? Win the world become frankly social
istic? IN what form VIII religion survive anofneE f
in the thought Of which we grow impatient at the
Of us perhaps most Of Us would gladly give over
all these specUlations. and the chance OF nndns
grms did, physically strong competent confident m lent
quer H. expeGtant OF strange new soFes , az
things new in human history
Conditions IN 1920. the speaker said, in edu-
catlonaI affairs. far different from what they
were now. The schools, viewed from present
standards. might have been crude, even as present
day schools would seem crude three hundred years
from now. He went on:
What seems most worthy OF note in the estab-
shnent Of these early schools IS the underlying
purpose in the thought OF those who Instituted
children in learning and labor which should 6e
the children TO read the English Bible To make
citizens whose learning and industry snail advance
the revelation of God-these are the two reasons
for maintaining public schools et ...s. ideals g.,
our own time For many years we have torgoEiten
teach q them how to do the things which the world
wants done. which they must know how to 90 II
public trade schools now gatheringh II head for f9Ll
IF he PjIeriras ms Speed the day when the dreams
Of the fathers may be fgltlied IN that new Amer
and 10 work defuy at the tasks to which the world
But there is the other thought-that Satan can
6gs the teFate liter s & easily M do9b taaa he be Gan % ths
fet sure that men able TO read the Bible would
agree as to its meaning-and he had his own meth
now that education and mental training g have not
The fenets Of no religious sect in our public schools
But most Of US are positive that the cause OF pure
religion is set forward by every advance in human
knowledge.
Commander Robert E. Peary. the Arctic explorer.
also spoke.
An original poem, entitled Pilgrims" was read
by George Cabot Lodge. 1t ran, in part:
Surely that We thought and
To these Iebellious men Is more than well,
Spirits and hearts reanirnate TO theirs.
Rouse 5S5 he rsS3Fsaa' Laa u aho Of 2Ss' M S5
Lest we grow tired and tame and temperate,
Lest We grow stable. settled and secure.
Lest we no longer hear the voice. discern
The light that made them Pilgrims. lest minds
Scaut the truths welcome. lest our hearts forego
The labor an3 Nberality q love
Lest forget that still the Pilgrimage
Fills the lo1g prospect Of the Pilgrim Soul
We tire Piigrnlsi shall less deserve
or less than they rightful heir
His incDmuenslrable heritage2
Rather. as now the light OF truth expands
statel2T Vistas 20 the inward eye.
Rather. with more perfected faith
And more religious ecstasy learn
That life and destiny and death END time
nd cd and ell the long CaptiYities
C'reeds and enslavenlents the mind OF man
Are myths and phases of the soul,
Brief bounds OF iife's insatiahle hope
And Ierfect each Of must be,
Y-reverentiy and with deliberate feet.
INtu Of and all dead dreams thfnFs
Tread down tie dust into the way
TTst man may literally advanced For thus
shall with laughter strength and hardihood
send forth the vaErant and victorious soul
Erronn dreams and desolEte insanitIea
And gross decsptions Of the solid world
into fhs shining night cntO the roadl
Sr.a Inevitable
sJ.-ry settled customs ana established laws
Thro' all substantial thngs and sensible forEnsi
The spiritual road. the liberal way
aana nstl of LllgrInAEz- eosllsl