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RICHMOND TIMEs-DIspATCH: SUNDAY JUNE II, 1916

the first element was n onickcn,ns OF
our intellect, and tho accond n quick =
cninS or our sympathics, tho third
means revival of our faith. u Iutck-
entnS OF our belief IN an tmrutncnt
deity With our science and our phil.
osorhy. with our Investigations and
tahulations, with our evolution and 80
cial science we fast were vcrgins TO.
wards tho belief that man must work
out his own destiny: We were over.
confident i'm our belief In civiliscd man.
ana orcrhopcful in our prophecy of
tho supcrman. What need W religion
II science is sufficient? What neod or
theology. II sociology solves our prob,
lens?
1t was orc such a world. confident
IN It's science and philosophy. that tho
storm of the world war burst We had
put our trust partly In shot and sbcu
parity In laboratories and libraries.
parity IN dcmocracics and Hague fri
ounais. and finally in mans uncon.
Hucrablc mind. Then came tho ncnto-
cost or calamity, and we found that
XII our culture had not awaited To
'h'hsc inc essential nature OF primcval
man. We have found that mans nm
cohHueraote mind gives us the are-old
tragedy OF n mortal will at odds win
i"''h' In vain we have searched for
some hope In man. and for some ruI-
I'T power or principle that might give
FORCE 10 the peace leagues and hiring
ABOUT the parliament OF man. the fed
Grafton OF the world.
so long we deal with human
knowledge or human power in tho face
or inns world war, the result is blank
u'sPa'r. We arc forced back to the old
conclusion that ii we would usc a
lever 10 raise the world, we must ind
out pou sto outside OF the world. Cithe,
we are hopeless or our hope is in God
HoPELESSNESS or SCIENCE
HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED
such, young gentlemen. seem TO me
the clements of our war education. tn.
lessons OF the world conflict We have
learned that our knowledge and on,
euu'"tion Is not 'dry-as-dust' accu-
mutation OF facts and laws. but "A cul-
lure vital in war as in peace We have
hao our sympathies hroadcncd to in
Guide saxon and Tcuton. Celt and Slav.
ana 10 feel the sweep of tho universal
r"seoE OF human woe. We have
learned the hopelcssness of science and
determinism. and been thrown by tho
rude shock OF conflict back to a child
like faith in God and belief in an
overriding Providence We have
learned that the superman has not vet
arrived. Emerson said long ago.
Very few of our race can no said
to he yet finished men. We still carry.
S''ShihS 10 us, some remains of the
preceding inferior Quadrupcd orEariza.
ton. We call these millions men; but
they are not yet men. IIalf-engaged
III the soil, paving TO set free man
needs all the music that can be brought
TO disenGaEe him. II Love, red Love.
with tears and joy. il Want with his
scourEe. if War with his cannonade, II
Christianity with it's charity, if Trade
with its money. II Art with it's port
folios. II Science with her tclccrapbs
through tho dccpS OF space and time,
can set his dull nerves throbbinE, and.
by loud taps on the tough chrysalis,
can break its walls and let the new
creature emerge erect and free-make
way. and sing pean. The age of the
Tuadruped is to go out. the age of the
brain and of the heart is To come in
And in this Christian college may
not be allowed to say that the wise
Emerson, who thus told our civiI;ziur
agencies, has omitted from this passage
the one agency in which our sole hope
rests to-day. Surely Love and Want
and War and Charity and Trade and
Art and Science do not complete the
round of mans endowment Unless
Jehovah build the house. they labor
in vain that build it; and our war edu-
cation is not complete unless, with
our Quickened culture and our quick
ened sympathy, we also have had a
spiritual quickening which shall lead
us not merely TO the quest OF peace
and the cult OF the superman. but
above al! 10 the worship of the living
Cod and the faith in that divine per-
scnality which alone can transform
and transfgure the children Of men
into the sons and daughters OF God
The age of the brain ard of the
heart is not 10 go out. but the age Of
The spirit is to come in"