The Mena weekly star., 1911-05-18

SERMON SUNDAY
CONTINUED from Pace 4l

-. ~ shuh tueSe-anu that is the
spirit OF the study itself. Before q
man can even begin to inquire. he
must ask himself, Am | in sympa-
thy with the subjectY 1t matters
not what the kingdom be, our first
step must be taken here. The
would-be artist must have the
deepest love for art. 1t is not
enough that we listen to wise les
sons. We must possess the mystic
rlous power of acquisition. Thou
sands OF students study under the
most brilliant masters without at
tanning any distinction whatever,
because they have no Unborn fac
ulty to be ELECTED by the rare op-
portunities granted them.
The Purpose and Aim OF Education
The primary aim of education is
It's subjective affect. 1t is to pro-
duce a self-sufliciency in manhood
1T is to make the most possible of
ourselves. Parents send their chill
dren to school principally because
they wish to see them achieve per-
sonal happiness, personal weight of
manhood. 1t is to enlarge the soul
TO promote its growth and develop
ment.
"Of course its objective aspect is
to enlarge ones field of action; to
give proficiency in service.
An educated man can do much
more than one who is uneducated.
Someone has said: If / had only ten
years to live | would spend nine
years in preparing to live the ten.
Education not only gives personal
worth and character, but extends
his horizon, augments his capacity
for work, and should determine the
quality of his work. We ought to
learn to do WE'LL Any culture that
does not produce the highest quail
ity of service is not the highest ed
ucation and will not stand the high
est test.
Education is TO Make Character.
What are we here for? To make
character. That is the aim and end
of ALTO make character; to get
to learn the use of our
tools. | declare to you it seems TO
me the world had better be wiped
out altogether, unless there is a
world beyond, where a man can use
the force which here he made his
own. Every event that befalls us
has a meaning beyond itself, and all
that God does for US is to train us
for something greater yonder. Life
as whole is full of sound and fury,
nothing, unless it is all
apprenticeship training.
Means to Secure Highest Education
One of the common means is that
of example. The student looks TO
the teacher as a model for his ex-
cellence. A great lesson is given of
Gods method in the training of his
children by the beautiful picture
Of the eagle and his brood. The
father eagle is represented as flut-
Lering his wing and flying over his
young fledglings as if to say, Look
at me and do as do Christ says,
Follow me-
Ideal is also a great means to the
highest development. No one has
ever attained any height in learn
ing without a fixed, definite ideal
toward which he moved.
Providence is a great teacher if
rightly understood. Adversely may
be given for our good in training us
for the battles of life. In the pic
Lure referred to, the eagle, he is
said to stir up his nest to make it
uncomfortable for the eaglets. This
is very wise and tactful thing, for
hey might remain indefinitely in
active in their downy nest if left
alone. Many people never learn to
fly because too comfortably situat-
ed. 1t is fact of history that the
poorest boys and girls, those hard
est pressed by circumstances, have
developed the strongest characters.
A good teacher will soon learn to
make it hard for his students. He
will push them out on their own
responsibility, leaving them to
struggle for themselves, that they
may learn self-reliance. Many
that seem i'll come to
us as blessings in disguise, because
the call for the best in us. You
may think it a calamity that this
city has been deprived of the rail-
road division and swept by the re-
cent tornado, but perhaps you were
too comfortably situated and too
much at ease, and needed to be
stirred by being pushed out of your
nest. You must either do something
now or. die. This we must know,
however, that God will not leave us
in our calamities. The father eagle
is represented as brooding over his
young and catching them as their
weak wings fail them, and bearing
them away on his strong pinions
So God may push us out to strug-
gle Ter ourselves, but he is ever
near to lend a helping hand lest we
should utterly fail. Another means
of attaining the highest is conform
ity to law and humble obedience
The greatest teacher, Christ, otter
professed his absolute obedience te
the Father. No man has ever be-
come master without lirst being
servant.
II said: Let me walk in the fields;
He said: Nay, walk in the town;
I said: There are no flowers there,
He said: No flowers, but crown