Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-23
STATE SUNDAY
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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| queenly bride, turned into the hideous
! serpent that she was, and all men hat
| ed her.
Truth is more than a theory an idea
or an ideal 1t is living, breathing,
| conquering force. incarnate in the as
| piring souls of living men. Yester-
| day it Numbered in the voice Of Moses
ard israel went up out of bondage:
| today, it speaks across wireless con-
| tinents and Marconi has made all ma
| lions one: tomorrow, it will strike the
chains from the minds of earths mill
| ions. because one man will he truth
girdIed God goes about the iedemp-
| ton Of nature. society and humanity
| by planting truth in the soul of some
Greek Plato, some Italian Dante some
English Cromwell. some American Lin
coin.
You have come this day from the
hills and valleys of Maine to hold high
counsel together. You seek II know
the way to the hearts and minds of
her children: you wish to set wider
the bounds of liberty. You would lift
your state to God. There is but one
way 1.-THE truth shall make you free"
In your hands is the book, IN your
minds the light, in Your hearts the
love that will bring redemption to a
lost world.
The soul in its climb to truth and
Cod can find no force that matches the
Sunday school The Sunday school is
the one place where UNCONVENTIONAL
preiudiees and creedal limitations find
no refnee or encouragement.
The multitudes in their quest for
truth and God find the open door of the
Sunday school the one sure way to
success, because the school puts the
open Bible in the open hand of ev-
cry open heart within its influence.
The home. the school and the church
are the three forces that make the
republic brave. efficient and enduring.
These three forces get their power
from studied. believed and praeticed
| Bible. The Sunday school is giving the
homes of America, mothers who know
| and love the Bible; it is giving the
public school, teachers who know and
| teach the Bible; it is giving the church
members who know and practice the
| Bible. The work of the school is,
| therefore, to train mothers for the
home. teachers fer the school, and
workers fer the market place.
In our day ignorance is once more
| trying TO uncrown and dethrone hui
mainly. 1t builds hospitals and asy
lams, prisons and homes of refuge. 1t
| is forever seeking to cure fallen souls.
but 1t hates prevention. it loves soup
houses ard hates living wage. 1t
! loves mansion in the sky and hates
| a cottage. sun-kissed. ivy covered, I'M
| der the great oak by the side of the
road where the tolers go down to
| work. 1t loves Kelley institute and
hates saloonless city. 1t loves or
phan's asylums and hates the drudg-
cry of a home. 1t loves women. but
| it bates the limitations of one womans
| love. But its days are numbered. The
open Bible in the hands of our mill
| ions will enthrone truth. then ignor-
ance will flee the earth.
In our day ignorance is swift to see
| its advantage and use its opportuni-
ties, therefore it fersakes its old meth
| DDS. 1t no longes, builds scaffelds. and
lights fires and hides among tie rocks
with uplifted club. 1t paints pictures,
| sings songs and writes books, and so
| roisons the citadel of man nature, and
| fills the republic with unbalanced
l ifliilus dIid VILE.
| Art is the realization of mans
tdreams, the expression of his souls
vision. 1t is mans way to speak out
| the. idea, the ideal. the truth, that is
| his. Poison his soul, debase his i'm
agination. take truth out of his mind
and the light has failed him. When
q man sees God and the gathered glo-
ries of the universe. then he is born
| again. then his life swings up to high
levels; then art is born, then the mar
| BILE lives. the canvas becomes hVlnS
/ thing, and the music of the soul cii"-
ruses with the music of the stars
The work of the Sunday school is to
set God in the heart of the child When
YOU have done this you have set the
| world to marching, achieving and con-
ouering. Millet said, II find in the Bloie
all ! do" Give us an open Bible ana
one day America will have an Angelo
Raphael and a Turner.
Ignorance has left the worlds workers
without music. There are no songs to
! arouse the worlds tolers. They must
/ he written Some soul must come to us
with the light of the stars in> his eyes
the swell of the ocean in his heart. the
chant of cathedral bells in his brain
| and the cry of the children forever in
| his ears. Then he will make the Worio
| forget it's cares, its SORROWS. its bitter
| toll. Then he will lead the hosts of toll
out of the wilderness up to the promised
| land.
If only we can think high enough and
feel deep enough and see clear enough
| we shall know that the whole world
i swings in one great harmony. Music Is
| at the heart of the world. Shakespeare
| would have us think that a soul lost 10
| music is fit for treason. When Brown
i ing enters the lists to rescue ruined
| King Saul, he sends for David and BIDS
| him untwine the lilies from his harp and
/ sing of shepherds and harvests, OF pat
/ ties and victories. Not without reason
| did Plato in his republic make education
| begin with music.
This is your work, Sunday schools OF
| Maine, to lead our boys and girls into
i the presence of God that truth may mas
ter them, then will they compose fhe
music and sing the songs of redemption.
| Then will some Bach, Beethoven or
| Handel come and live among us. Too
| long has ignorance written our books,