The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26

lands can be explained only BY the
Christian story.
Where the Gospel has gone. there
! women have been gradually freed.
until today the highest expression OF
Christian civilization is the character
and lot Of ~woInanhood. The Inter-
prefer ard Friend and Champion Of
woman today is the Wnlte-SeuleG
Knight Of God who was born or
Mary. The new movement Of Wom-
anhood will be kept safe and sensible
and successful. 50 long as it does not
lose sight Of its spiritual beginnings.
Undc the Yoke OF Life.
Parents Il educators today are
both muttering rebellion against our
present educational system. It IS
over specialized; it sugar coats
knowledge and attempts TO beguile
and allure pupils int the acqnisi-
ton Of information. 1nperceptlbiy,
it has come to be an attempt to ere
ate a royal road to learning. The
protest IS widespread that our edu-
c%ational methods are not hitting
boys and girls for life. We cram
their heads, ut we do not train
their brains and character. Lessons
are taught. hut not life.
a wholesale reaction is coming.
The best Of the old days and the IL
+-Ways will be, restored. The Wisest
students Of our time are pointing out
that the home is more important
than the school, and that the edu-
cational functions Of home-life can
not be usurped by any professional
training. Children need response
bllity in the home. They need def
mite chores to do, whether they feel
like doing them or not. They need
nome discipline and the influence of
brothers and sisters. Also they need
time to think and to let the soft in
~ffuences Of this wonderful world Of
nature enter into their souls. There
IS profound significance for all stu
dents Of pedagogy III the historical
Tact that Nhen God wanted to train
the Perfect Man., he put him into a
Norkinanan's family. where he had
to bear the yoke in his youth, and
learn to labor and to live.
The Maj Ahead Of His Time.
In this day Of pOliticaIZprogres-
when all public men are
trying TO prove how representative
Of the peoples advanced thought
they are. ones mind goes back to
the Populist Of a generation ago.
hen they We're derided and sneered
At. Their party is dead, but their
cause IS won. There We're of the
eoodlS of ~forerunners and
preparers. Their consolation WIS
ittndt sounded by the poet:
HAL TO the coming singers!
Ha1l to the brave light-bringers.
Forward | reach and share
All that they sing Il dare.
Ring bells in unreared ~steeples,
Il JOY Of unborn peoples,
Sound. trumpets far-off blown,
Your triumph is my own
Ahead Of the times in which he
lINed, came John the PrepareT, II
blaze a path for Christ. His lot it
was TO lose his lustre in the greater
light OF the One who came after. He
dled 4 p}oneerss death, but he lives in
deathless honor, an inspiration to
multitUdes. a favorite Of God. one OF
history great inmortals. tt is 4
man 5 work to make ready the minds
OF men Tor q greater than ones self
who shall come after.
Down the street they are putting up
a new building. Fifty men are en-
pioyed IN the excavation. and Il hun
afed men are watching them work
and finding fault. 1t is easy to stand
ASIDE ana criticise the procession.
Some deluded Ok think it u proof Of
bralns TO be able to find fault with
me men who are doing things. hat
IS about as cheap and childish an
o~ctupatlon as the mind Of man can
undertakes. To pitch in and trv 10
remedy conditions is both costly ana
hard. cav
The difficult course was the ono
adopted 10y Jesus. lie criticised his
limes, It IS true. tie is not remem
oered Tor that, but for His recon
s,ructlon Of the times. Jesus was M
tandem critic; lie lined up on the
SIDE OF the best thing in si"h1 Thus
re .uentlilFd liimself with John ana
iohns mission. and insisted unon Ne
lhs papti@et' into the unity with the
pest friends Of Cos in Ills dan.
lhen lie went into the Wilderness
ioI the test and the temptation. HE
lie Was His weapon. with which
90 hattie with the world. the fasb
ana the devil, and He wanted to test
I No1.h q the blade. Thus lie
learned to know Himself go