Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-22
OLD-TIlNE RELIGION
BY BISHOP w. 4. GAMBLER

never more enlightened than when they SUBJ
mitted themselves to the rule of despotism
and suffered the loss of their liberties.
knowledge is power" but it's power may
be good or bad; and the power of mere
knowledge is often quite bad. Paradise was
lost by Ewes eating of the tree of knowledge
impelled by her craving to be over-wise. -.
Education prevailed almost universally in
world afire in 1914. With almost super
human intelligence the rulers and people of
Germany prepared for that dreadful confa~
grafton. The war which they brought on
was conducted with diabolic skill and bar
barrie cruelty, science combining with saw
agery to work its bloody ends. 4"
Education was never more general in the
United States than it is now; but crime was
never more plentiful and widespread. The
daily press publishes daily accounts of star
thing distinguishes, alarming robberies, dis
gushing RIGHTEOUSNESS, and shocking deeds
of violence and bloodshed. And these re-
pulsive offenses committed most FREE
quentIy by men and women of education.
TSome OF them, such as forgery for example,
cannot be committed by illiterate persons.
The insurance frauds that disgraced New
York some years ago were the crimes OF
university graduates-a majority of the loot
ers being graduates of one New England inr
st1tut1on in which the Christian religion has
had for many years little influence
The stability of political institutions and
the peace and prosperity of the nation can
not be secured by education alone Already
education has Impaired to multitudes of our
people more power than virtue. Indeed, the
present is an excessively high-powered age
It's power is its peril. 1t has more culture
than conscience. 1t has too much education
unless it had more religion to rule and reg
ulate it's intelligence
In the observance of Education Week"
attention should be directed to the supreme
Importance of the moral and spiritual ele-
mn CT tot, fo
1T from becoming dangerously destructive
Some declaimers are accustomed to de-
clare that "all education is religious" Such
a declaration is untrue. great deal of
education is goddess and demoralizing In
truth, it is not easy to make education thor
oughly religious. Intellectual culture fires
ambition and engenders other forms of self
1shness which corrupt life and beget social
disorder. Such the case with Bacon,
who has been justly characterized as "the
w1sest, meanest of mankind" Inordinate
love of position and power filled his soul to
the exclusion of all scruples concerning the
methods that he employed to reach his UNI
worthy ends.
The waters of education are as bitter as
the springs of March exodus XV:23-263,
and they must be made sweet and whole
some by the leaves of that tree of life, which
God has given for "the healing of the ma
TONS" Revelation XXII:2)
Education without religion and culture
WITHOUT CnTlSIldnlCy are explosives that work
ruin to individuals and nations.
Our nation was founded by faith The
Colonists did exhibit great zeal for schools
but their care for religion went before and
greatly exceeded their concern for education
The schools which they established, both
their common schools and colleges, were re-
ligious institutions.
The forces of faith which gave birth to
American freedom must preserve it, or it
will perish If the American people turn
away from God, they will be turned into hell
as all nations who have forgotten Him have
been. (Psalms IX:17.)
Schools are important but family affairs
In the homes of our people are more So The
knowledge of God is more necessary than
the knowledge Of books by so much as ele-
waited character outranks keen intelligence