The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-28
In a thourhtful parer reah al the

In a thoughtful paper read at the
recent meeting of Virginia Bapts's'
at Norfolk. James D. Crump, pres
dent of the B. r Johnson Publishing
Com pany. OF this city, declared that
many American schools are no long
er dominated by American educa-
tional ideals. Our fathers he said.
had no Illusions about education. no
obsessions no foolish enthusiasms-
sit never occurred 10 them that their
sons and daughters were more ami
mails with thinking machine attach
ments and that education was simply
process OF protecting the attach
ments They looked upon their sons
not as bodies provided with mnGs'
but as spirits provided with oodIes /
and minds, and they knew that they
could no more make men out or them:
real men-men for the Kingdom OF
CODY merely developing their
minds. than they could be merely
developing their bodies. They oelieV-
ed that II their sons were ever 20
reach mans estate where they could
walk with God 10 His Kingdom as
His sons their essential natures
their spirlts-would have 10 be quick
ened ssnd developed to manhood.
And they equipped their schools &C
cording TO their belief. They equip
ped them not merely 20 develop their
sons minds hy bringing them into
contact with developed minds and the
learning Of developed minds, but also
TO quicken and develop their spirits
hv bringing them in contact with
auickened and developed spirits, who
i'm turn would bring them IN contact
with the Eternal Spirit And so, 10
quote from a recent writer, when they
built hall Of learning they dedicat-
f~.ag Oh
n rsth teachers who were first OF all
men Of God scholars they were. hut
scholars " no were verscd FIRST in the
sacred mysteries Of manhood and
next in Greek ana Latin and mathe-
mates. and philosophy, true men and
strong, who cared not for dollars, be-
cause they had learned that life con-
sistefh not In the abundance OF them
capa Die mer--men who could close
their books on "a moments notice and
lead their students forth, II need tie.
to make crop or repel the British or
carry to the mountainecrs round
about the gospel Of peace and good
will to men.
Schools Built To Make Men.
Nearly every school built in
America in the early days OF the Re-
public was built by men who had
passion for making men for the King
dom Of God. When the number OF
colleges had reached lls 1t was found
that all except fifteen were d!stnc-
lively Christian schools and were
zealously engaged in the making OF
men-ineli according 10 the American
idea! which in that day was Christ's
I ideal ala not the materialistic, or
rationa .stle or other-istc Ideal that
was afterwards 10 come to US from
across the seas
But by and by something happen
ed. new god came 10 America. As
4 the writer whom | have Just quoted
\ has said this new god saw men
listening to their God and he threw
back his head and laughed. Talk
about the Divine origin of man! he
I sneered Give ne a bucket Of water
and a lump OF charcoal and pinch
81 of this and that and plenty OF time
4 and III make you as good man as
the best OF you. IT'S time to stop
Y this fool!shness and set to work.
: You've been dreaming OF Divine
3 destiny and trusting IN an Invisible
z God TO BRING II to pass and you are
getting now mere. Stop your dream
ing and trust in me and ] will help
you make things and you shall have
all the destiny you want Do you
doubt me? Look And this new god.
Science, stretched forth his wonder
working rod and began TO perform
miracles more wonderful, 1t seemed
to men than Jesus had ever perform
I'd in Galiise. He showed men how
TO make things and put money into
) their pockets and Jesus had never
shown them how to make thing or
put so much as penny in the pock-
cts. And straightway America fell
q on its face before this new god. as
Europe had already done and from
that day TO this the world has been
flled with the noise OF the demoniacal
worship Of ErtCtrce and IN it's frenzy
over the making Of things the max
u ing of men has been almost forgot
M ten.
And the other day something else
happened There was a terrible ee-
plosion In Europe that shook the
whole world and brought men to their
feet with cry Of terror. Everywhere
!. men ran hither and thither with
tianched faces asking what was the
matter Something mad been the mat
I ter for good while. but men had
been roofing their noses IN the ground
{ before their row god and could Meth
i er ace nor think. Now It began &c
I occur to them that for twenty years
Z or more our whole civilization had
: been drifting. IN every great sphere
- 9f the worlds life there a hor-
rible ever growing sense OF unrest. OF
! uncertainty. OF foreboding. OF help
! 1essness. Government, industry. SO.
Z ciety, the home, hing
u seemed 10 have been caught IN one
] svsst appalling drift. What was the
. secret Of II all
{ Need Moral and Spiritual Forces.
There could be but one answer
: Take up any great world situation OF
N problem OF today and investigate II
i as far as you VIII and no matter how
IN far you may go you Will come back
at last to the answer Of the man In
4 the street. Your figures may be ali
right says the man in the street the
man who lives in the very maelstron
y OF Hfe--'your figures may be all RICH,
and your laboratory tests may be all
y right. but the fact remains that II
/. YOU had had a man or enough men
you wouldn't have had that problem.
: And the man in the street Is right
IA II Europe had only had man o;
81 great moral or spiritual power. such
as she has had in the past he would
have turned back tina. war with a
wave OF his hand. All the great prob
lens that are troubling mankind are