The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-09-16

thirty-seven out of forty-eight states
either permit or require it's use in the
schools. In New York city, full OF
Jews and Catholics, it has been read
faithfully for fifty years. Why not
here where most of the teachers be-
lieve in it fully? If not within the
schools, then place must be given for
1t without, that Dr.. Bagleys third re-
quisite of youthful ideals may be furn-
1shed. The Bible was in our schools
from the first. 1t is only. recently,
and at the request of enemies of the
Word, that it has been excluded. A
mere handful of men, who had moth
ing to do with the origin of popular
education, seek to rule the great ma
Jority. of those who love the Word.
and love the youth and who love the
schools. Whoever heard a complaint
OF the use of the Bible in our penal
institutions. II the delinquent classes
need 1t for reform, why not for pre-
yention of delinquency? Christianity
is necessary to reformation.
knowledge is power" but know
ledge is not only possible through in
tellectual perception, but through feel
ing. The life that is purified by truth
and made to delecately respond to the
promptlngs of conscience, will touch
the larger realm of existence, and
answer to the larger demands of the
age. A Clearly person is a better
Judge OF purify than a savage in the
Nth or his WiSWam; pure woman is
better Judge OF moral purity than a
debauche; mean man is a Door
judge of what is honorable, and a
swlndler of honesty. Tell me what a
person is capable Of telling as well as
OF thinking and | will tell you what
he is capable of knowing.
We are not ,agnostics, either in the
realm of science or of God. Let us
have done what the heresy that God is
unknowable, Calvary suspicion and
the Bible fogbank-Truth, gertrude,
positive conviction makes men and wo-
men. Doubt destroys power. viii we
have men and women of strength lead
them to the assurances of Him who
said, "4e shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free" How fool
ish to trim taper to burn but for a
moment and go out in darkness. How
foolish to loose sight in all our train
ing, Of the fact that, as owen Mere
dith says, There are truths we com
prehend not" and Victor Hugo res
ponds, True life is a long reaching
out of the soul to something beyond.
This life has tomorrow. Tennison
beautifully sings,
My own short life shall teach me this,
That life shall live forevermore,
Else earth is darkness at its core
And dust and ashes all that is"
In Rome, l saw thirteen persons
laboriously climbing the Sancta Scala
steps upon their knees, because the
.Pope's Bull, hung at the foot promises
nine years of indulgence for every
one OF the twenty Eight climbed with
prayer, a total of 252 years of indulg-
ence. Human life is a series of ago
MES, a Calvary which we can only
climb on bruised and aching knees if
immortality may be ours. The Bible
is Heavens decree as to the process
OF climbing and the reward which
God Himself proposes for all eternity.
Wordsworth tells us,
Life, | repeat, is energy of love,
Divine or human;
Exercised in pain, in strife and in
tribulation;
And ordained, if so approved and
sanctified, to pass
Through shades and silent rest to
endless joy