Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-02
M0LDERS OF MINDS HEAR
SOUL development SERMON
REV. DIR. NoRTHRoP breaches
TO THE TEACHERS
Men of Science and Philosophy To-day
Are Expositors of the Christian
Faith and Believers in the Re-
deemer

In the First Baptist church last night
Rev. Stephen A. Northrop had many
Los Angeles school teachers before him
and he addressed himself to them par
ticularly. In part he said:
II feel myself honored tonight In
having before me the representative
educators of Los Angeles. You hold
the key of the intellectual and moral
situation in our fair land. The future
of America, yea of the whole world,
lies within your powers of mind and
soul. You have the molding of thought
in youthful minds.
the training of the soul, is the highest
calling in all the universe. L am here
in my first word to congratulate you on
the lofty mission you have chosen and
the glorious opportunity before you of
equipping our youth for the great tasks
before them.
thinking is the natural play of the
mind. The intellect can do nothing
else; but to think right thoughts and
develop those thoughts into golden
deeds is quite another thing. To edu-
cate the mind is your mission; to de-
velop the soul is mine, and we stand
both together on one platform for the
intellectual and spiritual progress Of
humanity worldwide.
"Never before has there been among
all classes of people, high or low, such
general interest in the life, character
and speeches of Jesus Christ as today.
World Is Thinking
"The world at large is thinking and
talking about him as no other person
ality in all the universe. Men and
women are more and more recognizing
the fact that Christ is Christianity AMI
Christianity is Christ.
Where you place your center in de-
scribing circle decides the relative
position of every point of the circum-
ference. And Christ is the center Of
the faith once delivered. He is the
axle around which revolves all that the
gospels teach
IF you eliminate Christ from it, all
goes to pieces.
ITO call for these witnesses from the
roll of great educators seems like try
ing to count leaves of banyan tree
They are almost numberless. From the
days of Christ to the present hour the
great scholars have chosen Jesus Christ,
not only as teacher, but as Savior. You
can scarcely name a famous instructor
in Europe today or in America who
does not recognize the divinity of Jesus
Christ and the inspiration of the scrip
lures.
osophy that may be catalogued in this
way, but I prefer only to name those
who directly discipline the mind of our
young men and maidens and in this pro-
cedure bear III mind that not one is q
clergyman or tneologian, so that none
may lay 1t to my charge that l have
quoted those who are biased profession
ally:--that / extract from those who
defend the faith from prudential mo-
tives.
How about those outside the range
of the pulpit and those only within the
range of the desk--the teacher whose
throne is the training of the intellect?
Mann's Words
zone of the greatest educators and
statesmen of modern times was de-
cidedly a believer in Christ as a per-
sonal Savior-Horace Mann. Perhaps
no figure in the early days of teaching
had more to do than he in shaping the
educational policy of our public school
system. Hear ye him: But what
glorious column of the forms of men
stand on the other side-true disciples
of Jesus Christ; it is our highest duty
and greatest interest to grow up into
the likeness of God in Christ, molding,
shaping, conforming, until it may be
said, without blasphemy, that man is
in the image of God
"And long before his day there was
Froebel, the German educator and re-
former, and originator of the kinder
garten SYSTEM and Pestalozzi the
Swiss educational reformer; they were
decidedly expositors of the faith and
believers in a personal Redeemer.
You cannot name a university pres-
dent in Europe who is not a Christian.
Almost the same is true in America.
With two or three exceptions every one
of our state university presidents are
devoted followers of the lowly Nazarena.
Let one of the first voice the testi-
mony of all the others. I refer to
James b. Angel of the University Of
Michigan and once ambassador to
China. What does he think of Christ,
grand old man that he is: L believe that
Jesus Christ was the son of man and
the son of God; that he came to earth
on a divine mission to enable us TO
have eternal life. and that the Bible
is the message of divine truth for our
illumination, guidance and salvation
president Adams, University of Wis
consin; Baker, University of Colorado;
Dabney, University of Missouri; Dr@
per, University of Illinois; Northrop,
University of Minnesota; Jesse. Uni
versity of Missouri; Wheeler Univer-
sity of California; Wilson, University
of Toronto; Strong, University of Kan
sas; Loos, University of Kentucky;
Jones, University of Alabama; Fulton,
University of Mississippi, and dozens
of others whom l might slve, time and
space forbidding me to name, are un-
swerving and faithful champions of
the faith