The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-08-17
The VISION OF OUR
!. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM DE-
MANDS FAITHFUL ATTEN-
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The American school must draw
its inspiration from something high
err than material well being. Well
equipped schools and competent
teachers are not enough. We must
have moral integrity of purpose as
well as material development. The
potential citizen must have instilled
into him the great necessity of see
ing his brothers need and meeting
it. The world is beginning to see
that might is not essentially right.
A disturbing element of the times
which would cast its cloak of mate
rialism about the youth of the COM
ing generation, is the theory of evolu-
ton. Some of the pulpits have given
voice to this theory of the origin of
men, and some professors in univer-
sites have joined the ranks of those
who try to teach that man sprang
from jelly-fish and not from the
Infinite Creative Mind-Our Heaven
ly Father-God.
Our civilization rests upon the
origin of man as defined and set forth
in the first chapter of Genesis, that
man was created in the image and
likeness of God. The men who
founded our great institutions, wrote
the Declaration of Independence, and
firmly set this continent upon the
solid rock Of political government of
the people and by the people, believed
that man is the product Sof Infinite
Mind rather than the outcome of an
inanimate fish. No country has yet
survived which controverted the Bible
Of our fathers, and placed brutal
force above spiritual power. Men or
nations who forget God and set up
for themselves false theories of the
survival of the fittest, generally pay
tribute to the god of war, and even
tually sleep in the ashes of their own
folly. The greater cannot spring
from the lesser; man was never a fish
nor an ape. Man is the product of
the Infinitely Great, the child of the
living, moving, active Principle, or
God. All true knowledge or con-
seriousness, the gaining of which is
the correct evolution, is the enlight-
eminent of the mind by the applica-
ton of Truth as taught by the Bible,
and not by Darwin. When educa-
ton has lost its element of spiritual
truth it is not worth having.
Sow Seeds of Human Liberty
The seeds of human liberty which
were so literally planted by our ia
theirs and enriched by their blood,
have brought forth after their kind.
The American ideal shines with such
glow and luster that it lightens the
dark corners Of earth, as a ray of
hope, like the "star in the East
which appeared to the wise men of
old. And as Moses sent his advance
guard to spy out the land of promise,
so twenty-seven nations of earth have
sent a total of 1900 students to be
enrolled in American colleges. These
students will return to their native
lands, and their influence in lands
king crowned and priest-ridden for
centuries, will be as a voice in a vast
wilderness. T.
World enlightenment must come
through the English tongue, which
was first to break the shackles of
political and religious tyranny. The
world is calling America to umpire"
a game which is being played on an
European field, in which she can take
no part since she is not versed in
intrigue and national selfishness.
Our part in this great drama is to
keep burning the fires of human IL
berty as beacon lights, so that tired
and foot-sore world may find its way
out of the morass of human bond
age and slavish selfishness.
The vision of our educational sys-
TENS have progressed beyond the mar
row limits of our first institutional
training, and this is but the purpose
intended by those who carved the way
and planted our course and distance
in the establishment of institutional
learning, which now far exceeds the
most roseate dream Of the pioneer.
But with unselfish hands we must
guard well the portals of knowledge.
We must purify every avenue with
the philosophy. of the Man of MAJ
areth. For in such philosophy rests
all human hope, all the elements
which go to make great people,
who can stand the storm Of assault,
of envy and religious intolerance in
its organized effort to enslave.-Se-
lected. - H.
with the sordid animalism of passion
gone depraved, until we rival Baby
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