The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-02
EDUCATION

The ignorant as we'll as the educat
ed acknowledge the great value anc
great power of knowledge and intel.
! ligence
Intelligence takes apparently worth.
less tracts of land, finds how to cult.
vate them, transforms them into gar.
den spots and makes them desirable
places for the home of man.
! On good lands it makes two ears o.
! corn, two bolls OF cotton, two grains
! of wheat and two blades of grass
grow where one has been growing
thereby feeding and clothing the hu.
! man race.
Intelligence found how to use the
strength of brutes for the benefit Of
the human race.
1t has turned rivers from then
courses and made their waterpowe1
do the work OF thousands of men.
/ 1t has called the thunderbolt from
the skies, chained it to the earth and
made it mans servant
1t takes the bed of clay and trans
forms it into beautiful dwellings,. In
telligence enables man to fly through
the air, pillow through the briny deer
and travel more swiftly from one part
OF the earth to other parts.
1t enables men in the various walks
OF life to do more work with less ex-
erton.
The greatest gift that our great Fa-
Their could give man was Salvation
Next to the greatest is knowledge
and intelligence. The last two are
the greatest secular blessings one can
possess. while ignorance is, and al
ways has been the greatest curse. The
Ireat God Himself delights in know
I ledge and intelligence, but the Prince
of Darkness delights IN ignorance.
Young people, are you going to be
numbered among the ignorant, or in.
telligento The choice rests with you
"Where there's will there's way
to gain knowledge
| Parents, what are you going to dc
about it? Are you going to place your
! boys and your girls in the ranks oil
ignorant .nonentities to spend their
whole lives there? Why are you put.
ting the awful brand of the ignora-
mus upon that little innocent child o.
yours3 Do you say: II do not stamt
him thus@ When on account of LITTLE
trifies. prejudice or malice you keeI
your child away from school, Sunday
school and church you are raising
him to be an ignoramus. Tim,
enough yeti do you say? I know
great numbers of bright children who
are from four to six years behind il
acquiring the elements of an educa
ton. Indeed, | know many youth!
from fourteen to sixteen wears ole
who can not read decently on accoun
OF little frivolous things Parents
God will hold you responsible, foI
raising your children in ignorance
Time enough? Yes, you have littl,
enough time if you make use of al
the time from the age of six to eiglf
teen years The weeks, the month.
and the years are rolling by. Soor
your child will be grown. You can
not educate him, or her, then. I have
seen very few young men and womer
! who had grown up in ignorance, in.
terested enough to get common
school education. Disinterested pa
rents. why will you on account of friv.
olous things commit a crime against
! your own children and blast theil
lives?
Give your children every encourage.
ment and everyc opportunity that yor
can; so that in future years they NAV
be powers for good in the world ant
may rise up and call you blessed"
But If you will not give them a
chance, YOU will have to account tc
God for making your own children
"Hewers OF wood and drawers of wa.
ter"
JOHN R. HARVEY. :