The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-15
The Rev. William Bourquin's
Able Exposition
Different Elements That Go to De-
velop Our Citizens Discussed
i'm Sermon.
OF OUR LIBRARY.

Following is the sermon delivered
yesterday by the Rev William Bour-
quin at the German Evangelical
church on the subject Education: .
And he humbled thee. and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with
manna, . that he might make
thee know that man doth not live by
bread alone, but by everything that
lproceedeth out of the mouth of Je-
hovah doth he live. Deuteronomy S.3.
Two especial things God did for
the children of Israel during their
Journey through the wilderness. He
lgave them food, revealing him
lself as the loving God who cared
for them. But he gave them more
THAN that. He gave them his COM
mandments that not by bread but by
doing His will they should truly live.
1t is God speaking through Moses that
leating and drinking is not the most
limportant in life, but that there is
lsomething higher whereby and for
(which to live. The frst verse points
Ito 1t. "All the commandments which
command thee this day shall ye OBJ
serve to do that ye may live.
| We live In a commercial age Near
ly every individual city and nation is
deeply interested and actively en-
Gagged in commercialism. There is
the danger of thinking of bread alone.
But we are overcoming the danger by
Ianother movement that is moving in
harmony with the commercial and
that Is the educational movement. A
new interest in education, in the
lgroadest sense Of the term, is sweep
ling over our country, and it is bring
ling to us more forcibly than ever be-
fore the true principles of life.
Education is more than knowledge.
Education embraces the development
along the five principal lines of hu-
man activity. First the knowledge
of the material world; second, knowl
ledge of language, or the manner of
depression; third "a realization and
Hove of the beautiful in appearance
land sound; fourth, a developed sense
lof the social element of life, with its
beauties and responsibilities, and fifth
land before all, a response to the SUI
lpernatural or religious. These rep
PRESENT the great channels Of victory
In this life. They are the things we
find ourselves inclined to and capa-
BILE Of doing. They are natural to us.
Education is the drawing out, the de-
velopment of these natural tenden-
lcies by the reading and hearing of
facts and opinions, by thinking or
study and by activity or experience.
AS the elements of education are
natural II is our duty to develop them
in our self first. We and others ben
eft by 1t. But we have duties to-
ward others, who have not the oppor-
tunity nor enlightment we have.
Thus 1t becomes the duty of all, OF
the individual, of the city, state and
ination to direct attention to this great
Subject Of education. A great deal
has been done, but a great deal more
needs to be done.
The Agencies.
Il Educational agencies have been set
to work all over the country. Some
Of the wealth OF our country has been
given for the purpose Of building IL
braries and colleges wherever most
needed. The best talent is brought
to nearly every community by lecture
courses and chautauquas. Woman's
influence has been enlisted through
the educational committees on the
women's clubs. Many newspapers
! are lending their influence to the
higher development OF man. Our
wonderful system Of public schools is
extending its influence wherever pos
sible. Sunday schools and churches
! are at work everywhere.
Thus body, mind and soul find OPP
: portunity for development.
The educational movement of our
! lime is at work in our midst through
Its various agencies. We are helping
md must strive to do still better work
n the great movement for the uplIft
ng Of humanity. We have a good II.
brary in our city. A library is a
{ wonderful power for good. Many fai
D Ito see II and grumble at the few cents
added to their taxes. But even they