The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-05-28


ure if not directed to a higher life.
Christ was the first great pedagog,
and the greatest text books are the
first four books of the New Testa-
ment Scriptures. Christ was an up
to-date teacher. His work stirred
the world. Nothing ever yet equal
ed it, an, if you pardon me, nothing
ever will. Christ proceeded first to
get the attention of the world. That
is what every teacher should do.
UNLESS he gets the attention of the
lpupil the teacher is a failure. Jesus
got the attention of men and women
by performing miracles. Every
where it was asked, have you heard
of the great teacher? Herein the
wisdom of God has shown itself.
"These things are written that ye
might believe in Jesus, the son of
God;" and these things are record
ed in the first four great text books
Therefore men and women who come
with miracles are two thousand years
behind. Christ's miracles came to us
thru the written word, and with them
all nations across the stretch of CEN
turies have been taught until the pres
ent time. Christ was carrying out the
great command, and as soon as this is
accomplished he comes with mighty
message. What OF the teachings Of
Christ? They came from the son of
God, and his name was called Jesus,
who came to the sons of men to save
them from their sins. Christ's desire
to reach the consciences of men is an
evidence of the passing of provincial
ism. The world is conscious of the sins
of the times. Our high schools are not
simply to store the mind with knowl-
edge, but to establish character to
teach boys and girls to say no-to be
honest and truthful. If these lessons
are not learned your high school is a
failure. You gain nothing if not char
acter. l enter plea for the Biole
school to take up the greatest curri-
culum of the world. The Bible school
is intended for strong men and women,
and not merely for weak-minded men,
women and children, as some have
sneeringly suggested.
The speaker here branched out to the
great moral and political questions. He
spoke of human slavery as one OF the
greatest evils of the world. When he
made this statement he told the audi
ence that he was Kentuckian. The
question was not settled simply by the
abitrament Of arms, but by the con-
sciohsness of new world, and the
proof of this consciousness is that no
civilized nation of the world recognizes
slavery. Once the speaker could easily
tell when he reached the Mason and
Dixon line. Now that line is disap-
pearing. But he had something more
pleasant probably for the ladies of the
audience by saying that our women still
know how to make biscuit and over the
line they can only make lightbread. In
abolishing slavery a world evil had to
be eliminated. This was the passing
of provincialism.
The next step was reference to the
temperance question. Those who call
temperance little wave are not big
enough to see the world consciousness
and the fact that intemperance is dis
before it. Men say, don't
touch the question; the traffic has been
here 5000 years and it is here to stay.
But the awakening of world conscious
ness is pursuing the evil and it is going
downward to its doom. The point is
reached where we are eliminating an
other one of the worlds great evils, and
this is another sign of the passing of
IF / be lifted up l will draw all men
unto me" The beloved President has
been wise to refrain from the discussion
Of war. The speaker thus addressed
himself to the great European conflict:
If that is civilization then, in heavens
name, carry US back to barbarism."
This is German civilization, but Ger
man civilization, with all its genius,
was never equal to the civilization of
Greece. Allow me to vindicate the
of civilized warfare as an
evidence of the want of Christianity.
refer to the belligerency of the ma
lions and Germany merely as figure
head in the present crisis. 1t is the
of the world protesting
against the divine right of kings that
nas caused thevolcanic eruption of war.
It is one of the great world evils, and