The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-09-24

Of the people-considerably more
than four million-of this region
And the material welfare means the
roads and farms and flresides, anc
fruit orchards and mines, and shops
and all those things which give
bread and clothing, money and sup
port TO the people so that they may
enjoy their homes, churches, and
schools, and music and education
and religion and their work in the
nation and in the world for God
Almighty
That's You'll
Now, Berea you can see, has its
shoulders under big task. II is
to promote these things by select
ing individuals TO educate-young
people of character and promise !
That's YOUl That's why we have
invited people of character. Char
acter means will; character means
principle; character means aspira-
tions: character means devotion;
character means patriotism. And
there is a bigger thing almost than
character;--thats prOmise--charact-
er that is going TO improve, will that
is good now but is going to be
stilfened up still more; principles
that are good now, but are going
to be enlarged and perfected -
PROMISED
Then Thorough Christian educa-
ton" Let's dwell moment on the
kinds of education. II is wonderful!
There is no other school which has
so many kinds as Bereal First,
the Elementary; that is the most
important of all. We call it the
Foundation. We cannot afford to
leave this Foundation education TO
any teachers less informed or less
equipped than those that we gather
here. And then the Industrial,
sometimes called the Vocational;
sometimes called Manual Labor or
Manual Training. The word Man. I.
ual came from the Latin word
meaning a hand. You know that
the Psychologists or a trained ply
stefan can cut into the head OF
dead man and tell whether he was
or left-handed. Every
piece of skill that man puts into
his fingers makes a change in his J
brain. There are many people in
our day who think that no educa-
lion is complete unless it has to
10 with the education partly of the
Dody-the music, the marching of
the skill of the hands,
and the teaching of the hand and
he eye to follow the dictates OF the
mind.
And this is called vocational.
Vocation is the Latin word for
call" IL is fine ideal The |
bought is that God has called every {
nan and woman to some particular {
work. The farmer is TO provide the [
God, the miller is TO grind {
he grain, the mill man is to manu- i
acture the wool and cotton into {
10th, and so. on thru all the occu- G
one serves all his I
eighbors, and each one is called OF g
iod with his skill, so that no one y
n Gods world works for himself s
lone but for others. I
And then the secondary:-there is
ur Academy or high school work, a
hat which is beyond the Founda- n
on branches and yet not up with 4
ne College. Then there is the h
ormal, the training TO train, the q
to teach,-something that a
as barely begun to be recognized. W
has always been supposed that il j
person knew a thing he could q
zach it. But this is not so. Proba- h
ly man who knows the art OF T,
will get on further than il
he man who knows the thing with o.
1T knowing the art of teaching. d
A Chance for Everybody W
Now, these are the things u
lat the institution is provid-
Ig, and providing with them II
he opportunity for manual la .c
lr. That means that the door III
to be opened to everybody. There o'
still in all this region,-as in fact III
all the world-there is a good al
,al of the aristocratic idea, the idea
at certain families have all Gods W
vor, and other families are TO be F"
II out. But we believe that God W
YES good outfit TO every we'll II
I'm, healthy child, and that out OF III
e smallest and humblest and 81
rthest home there may come vir- al
e and service for the world. ~
Not Educated for Self Alone
There is Berea's goal. You will IN
G that Berea does not intend TO or
ain anybody for himself alone.
~ are all like the cadets at West III