The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-29
Splendid Baccalaureate
Sermon Delivered
By DR.. c. |. Stacy
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tie great point in the school life.
The great spiritual lesson we learn
from this: In such teaching we gain
the idea of just looking out for the
passing mark, not to learn. Religion
FITS for self, not for service. Tne
world needs you-everyone is needed
in life's place, for effort True re
ligion must teach us to be fitted Tor
service rather than self The world
needs you, class of 1918. Every sue
ceeding class is needed more and
more. After this awful war is fin
ished, you will be needed even more
than now. With heads clarified and
hearts purified, there viii be great
need that the emphasis be not placed
on the passing, but on the learning
Not on the grade Of head but also
on the heart.
Third. Our present school system Is
based on the wrong plan. In our
work we are forgetting that man is a
trinity. The first statement of the BIZ
BILE, l read it for years, so have you,
but I read it many times ere faith
omed it's meaning. I puzzled and
prayed over it. God the Son God
the Holy Ghost; God the Father! Ev-
en- so man is body, mind and soul. AS
God body-man; as God mind man,
ethereal; as God Soul-man, highest
part and best. But what is our plan
in education? Do we educate the
trinity in the boy and girl to com
plete the manhood or womanhood'
We spend eight years in Grammar
school and four years in High school,
then perhaps college and university.
What for? To teach the mind. What
about the body? What about The soul?
Won't we realize that in order to
have sound minds we must have
sound bodies? "A sound mind in q
sound body" is the right of every boy
and girl. Thank God for the awaken
ing in this work in educational lines.
Without compensation, without pay,
the splendid teachers of our faculty
are doing what they can to forward
this great movement, to so help our
boys and girls, the boys and girls
whom you and | own, there is no pro-
vision to control this matter. No plan
for our boys and girls to be so
trained that the body shall be strong
as well as the mind. Is it right? No
Tr Gods name then, let's change it.
We must have physical as we'll as
mental education; spiritual as well
as mental training.
You say, 1T is the business of the
church to educate spiritually" We
have them one hour one day in the
Sunday school-for one day per week.
There was time when the children
were trained in spiritual matters in
their homes, but that time has largely
passed. 1t is an awful fact that if
most children depended on their
home teaching for spirituality they
would go untaught. This is crying
shame and a disgrace. But if we
won't do it in the home, then in God 8
name do the right, proper, useful
thing-make provision in the school
for the education of his higher ma
ture-his spiritual concert. What is
this WRONG PLAN but the deifica-
! ton of the mind? Is it an insidious
error that has crept into our educa-
tional system? Where did we get it?
The men and women of today get it
from the schools of the past The
grammar school and the high school
and college as well as university all
defy the mind. They are trained
therein to defy the mind and neglect
the body and soul They are taught
Mind is Master" and such false
ideas as that MIND is GOD" A COL
lege professor said: Young men ami
women, if we cannot trust our gray
matter to save us then we are lost"
Where did he get it? Out of the BIZ
tle? NO! The mind is a big thing
but the Soul is the biggest part of 1t.
We must educate Mind, Soul and
Body.
Fourth. In every system We base
every project on our estimate of val
ues. Our present school system is
based on a WRONG ESTIMATE OF
VALUES. We need to awake and
change the thought. We pay the men
and women-what?-to teach such
children as you and I are the proud
parents of? Such children! Ours are
the finest on earth. OF course. they
are. They belong to us. What do We
do about it? The finest and best chill.
dren should have the finest and hos,