The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-25
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be brotherly and treat the individual anc
| the rest of the race with generosity
May it be said in future generations
that the Americans lived up to theil
Puritanical ideals in the treatment o.
their fellowmen.
However, one crying need is that o.
great and good men. We need few
good men to settle our labor problems
to conduct our foreign policy and il
every great and small task of life.
There is great demand for goot
| things, for the best of everything, anC
the key to this situation is good men
Who is good man7 The various schools
of goodness have gone by the board
| First was the Pharisaical idea of good
ness, to keep within the law, and al
would be well.
"But the law is never so large as life
We want no Pharisees.
Another more modern idea of good.
ness was monasticism, ostracism or iso.
lation. If man could only get into d
cloister away from the temptations and
trials of the world he would be good and
would be saved. But here was cultivat-
ed the idea, of exelusiveness, that ones
own soul was worth saving but it mat
tered not what become of the rest OF
mankind. This has also gone the way
of oblivion.
"Then men abstained from wrong be-
cause they were afraid to do it. This
developed the narrow man of small stat
ure, who went in the narrow path be-
cause he dared not to get out of it. This
was not good man, for he was good
for little or nothing. What, then, really
is the good MANI"
"The good is the conscious self in the
full development of all its normal ca
pabilities." This definition Rev. Mr..
Judkins emphasized very strongly and
asked the teachers to be sure to remem-
Der it. On this will have to be the foun-
dation of our conception of goodness, he
said
Il am very conscious that have a
body, but that is not I that ! speak
by means of vocal organs which serve
as an instrument. The first element is
the physical. No man who has not a
fully developed and potent body can be
thoroughly good, and the same holds
true of woman. "A sound mind in a
sound body was the mottof the an
clients and good one it was, too.
"Ihe second element is the mind. I'm
less mans mind has been fully de-
veloped he cannot be the man he should.
When you find man that is moved at
the first sentiment, such man is not
good; not until he has learned to con-
troll his emotions and give them reign
only in a righteous cause. The will
needs to be trained until man can
stick 10 definite project and carry it
through to its logical conclusion.
'.The soul is another capability to be
developed. One surely cannot be good
until he is spiritually developed For
this it is necessary to know God and
your own soul You must believe that
you are from everlasting to everlasting,
eo.eternal with God and His child and
that you are able to reach from one
thing to a better until you stand on
the same foundation where our Lord has
once stood. To this must be added a
proper conception of God, the Father
From all things you should
catch the refreshing of the imminent
presence of God, the Infinite Universe
Fitting Spirit. Only when all these are
sVhlS Ndu fuu Dt ichlts anu tluAg EVou.
Rev. Mr.. Judkins then addressed him
self especially to the teachers. what
have you to do with this development
Everything. What is the pioneering
force in all development as well as in the
march towards goodness? / tell you,
friends that in this the supreme issue
is the intellect. In this the Greek went
us one very much better
"To know is to be good. Ninety-nine
per cent of badness is due TO ignorance.
The well trained intellect is the great
The solution of the WON
an problem is training them in some
specific task in which they can become
The church awaits the advent
of the man with great mind working
On the right problems.
What has the teacher to do with all
5hisy Again | say, everything. The |
mind of the pupil needs TO be prospected |
Ind the harvest will be rich gold. The |
mind is the only instrument by which
We bring back the gold. This prospect
ng is your job and may you return to
{ with full realization of the greatness
ind importance of IT,"