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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913.
THE CONSPICUOUS FAILURE OF !| By Bishop Warren
SECULARIZED EDUCATION
A. Candler
THE EVENING STORY
HOME FOLKS
Copyigbt, 1813.
By W. Werner.
—> OMB men are beginning to see
^ that secularized education is a
failure.
A little while ago Hon. Bird S.
Coler published a book in which y
well attested facts and irresistibl \
arguments, he showed that educa
tion separated from religion had
worked vast evils in New York gtace
and throughout the United States.
The overthrow of Sulzer by Tammany
and of Tammany by Sulzer shows
that all New York’s immense appro
priations to schools have availed lit
tle for the promotion or political
purity in that commonwealth. The
h_lf-educated Dutch settlers of New
xork in Colonial times showed more
virtue than the Gothamites of the
present day with all their claims to
intelligence and integrity.
A speaker in the General Conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, held recently m New York,
proclaimed the same truth which
was set forth in Mr. Coler’s book.
Addressing that body Mr. George
Wharton Pepper is reported to have
said:
"There are two theories of educa
tion. One of them is that religious
education is one department of ed
ucation at large and more or less
supplementary to secular education.
The other theory is that there is
just education, and that if you neg
lect the religious side of it you
not only dwarf religion.^ but make
a mess of the whole business.
"This country is obsessed with
the idea that education is the im
parting - of information and voca
tional training, whereas the chief
value of education is to draw out
a man's capacity, and man’s high
est capacity is to be able to find
God. If an educational system
makes no attempt to examine the
relations of man to the Unseen,
then I dare assert that it is not a
scientific system.
"We have our young teachers in
the colleges who are constantly
asserting their convictions in re
spect of matters to which they
have not given sufficient thought.
Thoroughness is not a matter of in
tellectual operatiori. It is a mat
ter of character. Therefore these
young men are the victims of
wrong! methods in education, of an
education that does pot dbvelop
character.”
Mr. Pepper is entirely right in
what he says.
Religious education is an indis
pensable necessity—not merely a
more or less ornamental appendix to
secular education. It is folly to ex-
more or less ornamental appendix to
survive the perishing of faith from
the land; and faith must perish if
religion be denied its rightful place
of primacy in education.
Rabbi Henry Berowitz, of Temple
Emanuel in New York, spoke to the
same' point when he said recently j
chat “the failure of the new educa-j
tion in character building lias neces-j
sitated in our day the juvenile:
courts and the reformatories to try
to patch up the ruin arising from
the failure to safie-guard character.”!
Under our system o; government j
the State cannot provide for reli-j
gious education. It is idle to demand:
that it shall. The selection of teac--j
ers for State Schools is affected »y
political influences, as Is me selec-i
tion of all civil officers; and most,!
of the teachers in the schools of the
BISHOP
W. A. CAKDLEB.
State are not qualified to impart re
ligious instruction. If they attempted
it, religion would be hurt more than
it would be helped by them.
Moreover, a constitutional obstacle
is in the way of religious education
by the State. What religion can the
State adopt and propagate under our
system of government?
The attempt of the State to teach
the Bible, by eliminating from the
Book everything but a bundle or
general ethical principles, in effect
teaches the pupils to beueve that
all the rest of the Bible is worse
than worthless surplusage. Such a
method of ethical instruction antag
onizes the cause of religion rather
than promotes it. yt reaches the
young to despise most of the sacred
Book from which the moral lessons
given by the teacher are extracted.
It is a vain effort to retain the fruits
o>f .Christian morality after having
destr yed its roots; and It cannot
result in anything else but damage to
pupils and disappointment to teach
ers.
It is clear that if there is to be
any religious education in our coun
try, the Churches will have to pro
vide it; for the State cannot. We
must have our denominational
Schools and Colleges. Tney are in
dispensable to the moral and polit
ical welfare of the nation.
The skillfully devised scheme of
Mr. Carnegie and those who act with
him to secularize education in the
United States is something worse
than a blunder; it is a clvjme against
civilization: or it would be, if the
effort could be successful But it is
absolutely certain that the efforts of
these gentlemen will never succeed
in weaning away the Schools and
Colleges of the Roman Catholic
Church from their ecclesiastical con
nections. All that Mr. Carnegie and
his followers can do at most will be
to denature some Protestant institu
tions and destroy others. If they
could accomplish the overthrow of
all Protestant Schools and Colleges,
they would bring to pass an irrecon-
cilaule conflict between secular edu
cation on one side and education by
ihe Roman Catholic Church on the
other. Does any sane man in any
Church believe that such a line-up
as that could bring any good to
Church or State?
But it is useless to forecast such
a situation. The great majority of
Protestant Colleges in mis country
cannot be denatured nor destroyed
by Mr. Carnegie’s schemes for secu
larizing the higher education. V.ie
Churches are now awake to the pur
pose and the plans ot the secularists,
as they were not a tew years ago.
(’hey are going to maintain their
educational institutions; and in -■>-
ing so they deserve the support ot
every one who cares for the promo
tion of religion or tn« perpetuity of
our political institutions.
Moreover, tue schools of tne
Churches are going to be more pro
nouncedly 7 religious than ever in
their history. There is a growing
conviction that it is time to put an
end to the 1 antics in the Colleges
which a few little pert doctors of
philosophy have been exhiDlting in
the name of “broad-ness” and “liber
alism”, etc. It is to that fact Mr.
Pepper alludes when he says, "We
have our young teachers in the Col
leges who are constantly asserting
their convictions in respect or mat
ters to which they have not given
sufficient thought.” These raw young
teachers, more conceited than cul
tured, will have to give place to
wiser men.
A young man may be able to ex
amine a beetle's wing with a micro
scope without being made thereby
capable of passing upon tne Virgin-
birth of the Savior. Indeed it is not
very apparent to a man or plain
common sense that a little sand-pa
pered and 'hard-oil-finished academic,
supplied with a conventional degree
and adorned with a Van--., n.e beard
and a pair of eye-glasses, is compe
tent to revise all tuat the Church
has taught for two-thousand years.
It is conceivable that God has given
to such a person a revelation not
granted to the apostles and all the
great theologians of the ages; but
If he has, surely “God moves In a
mysterious way his wonders to per
form.”
These professors of omniscience
will have to go. The Scnoois of the
Churches w'ere not established to
rurnish places for -such men to ex
hibit their freakishness and perform
their pranks. It is time to cease
paying men to pull down the altars
the offerings on which are the source
of their salaries.
Religious Schools must oe relig
ious; they must be\always ready tn
answer satisfactorily the question,
“What do ye more than others?”
They must not be centers of ration
alism, nor mere gaining grounds.
They must be seriously and i sin
cerely devoted to the advancement
of the highest Intellectual and moral
culture. They must justify their ex
istence by making of their students
men of the loftiest character.
The fact that Alice Rush lived in
Gordon street was sufficient reason to
all Rockland for her being ignored by
Elizabeth Hess. For the Hesses lived
A man cams in at the gate.
in Pink street; and to live in Pink street
in Rockland is like living in Fifth ave
nue in New York. 'The Pink Streeters
do not mingle with the Gordon Streeters
socially. They are a class by them
selves. But it takes money to live in
one of the big Pink street houses, and
that obviously was why the Rushes did
not live there.
Gordon street is respectable, but poor
and inordinately shabby. When the
Rushes came to town they moved to
Gordon street because they could afford
to pay the price of one of its dwellings.
Mr. Rush was a bookkeeper and not
very strong. He was very neat, wore
glasses, and his hair was wearing away
on the crown of his head. Yet some
how, shabby and plain as he was, one
could understand how Mrs. Rush came
to marry him. He was her exact op
posite. She was tiny and dark and spir
ited, with the courage of a lion and
the energy of an athlete. She was al
ways doing something to “help along,”
as she expressed it. She hummed gay
little airs as she Worked. No one ever
heard her complain. Her prospects
might have been the brightest in the
world as far as that went. But then
she was not intimate with her neigh
bors. She was friendly, but no more.
She never said that they were not the
kind of people she had been used to
associating with, but the observer would
have known it instantly. Yet because
she lived in Gordon street the rest of
the town did not know her. Especially
did Elizabeth Hess ignore her. And
yet Alice and Elizabeth had been friends
in theiriagirlhood. They were both in a
way strangers to Rockland, yet they
were greatest strangers, it seemed, to
each other.
The Hesses had been two years in
Rockland when the Rushes came and
Elizabeth already had her social status
declared. She was very popular. Her
husband had bought the old Bush house
for her, and they had fixed it up without
and within and did something in the
way of landscape gardening to the
grounds which made it very delightful
to see. Fred Hess was the heaviest
shareholder of the 'Brisben-Walker plant
and manager besides. He was making
a great deal of money and his wife
was spending it. She had been a poor
girl and poor girls, give them a chance,
know how to spend.
Don Rush had tried to get into the
Brisben-Walker plant as a bookkeeper,
hut there was no opening for him and
no attempt was made to make one of
him. So he had to take an inferior po-
1 sition, which yielded him little more
than a starvation wage. He was skilled
too, but times were hard and he was
a stranger and he had to wait his op
portunity. What he would have done
without Alice as his wife, he said him
self, he did not know. Alice was a won
derful manager. With all their poverty
she contrived to get some enjoyment out
of life for both her delicate, easily dis
heartened husband and herself.
It hurt her, though, that Elizabeth
Hess would not speak to her. It is
true they never met face to face. But
| Elizabeth, riding by in her new car, had
a way of looking "over Alice’s head
; coolly and unmistakably with intent to
ignore. Alice knew it as such. She
would not thrust herself upon Elizabeth,
yet she would have beei\ so glad some-
! times if Elizabeth would just have
! smiled at her. For Elizabeth was the
| only thing in Rockland that spoke to
■ Alice of her own home and her own
' girlhood, both so far away, and for
: which she often had such a desperate,
homesicky longing.
Good luck attended the Hesses. It
actually seemed as if they were on
' the ascending end of the teether just as
the Rushes were on the descending.
They had everything. They did every
thing.
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pened. Don came down with pneumo
nia. He was very sick. Alice took
care of him and old Dr. Bonnet said
she was the best nurse he had ever had.
Between the two of them they saved
Don—just saved him and that was all
But there was no deynig the fact that
ho could not go back to his ledger
for a long time.
“You must take him south,” said the
old doctor.
Alice looked into his eyes and read
there that the need for Don to go south
was more than urgent; his life depend
ed on it. She took one breath and
plunged. “I'll take him south. We’ll
go in three days.”
That day she put a mortgage on the
house, which was in her name. That
day also she made arrangements to
sell off every stick of furniture tha
they did not absolutely need. Don
know nothing. She got the money and
she took him south.
In a warm, sunny little Georgia town
they got a little room, outside of
which was a veranda. Alice had her
chafing dish. It was marvellous what
she accomplished with it. And Don’s
increasing appetite spurred her on
recklessly. He asked no questions; he
simply let her take care of him. And
that was her happiness.
She was coming home one morning
after shopping when a car purred past
her through the sand, and she saw
within it Elizabeth Hes find her hus
band. Alice’s heart quickened and
the color flew to her sensitive face.
Elizabeth did not speak. She was not
looking for Alice, in Flowery Springs.
Neither was Alice looking *for her.
She saw the car turn in toward the
hotel and hurried on homeward, but
she did not tell Don. It might excite
him, and she. avoided everything of
that kind.
She did not expect to see Elizabeth
again in the place. They were going
through, doubtless, and had merely
stopped for a rest. But the next day
while Don was taking his indoor
siesta and she was sitting on the ve
randa making an Irish crochet bag for
somebody who had ordered one a man
came In at the little gate and spoke to
her. He was Fred Hess.
“I’ve been looking for you ever since
I saw you yesterday,” he said. “I
wasn’t sure it was you until we had
gone past. Then I told my wife and
she said it must have been you. Of
course, we didn’t know where you
were located. As for us, we were just
going through, but IHizabeth has been
taken very sick. And we’re a thou
sand miles from any one we ever saw.
I wish you’d come and see her.”
Alice thought the briefest moment.
Elizabeth well was one thing and
Elizabeth sick was another. She put
her work away. Til be glad to come,”
she said.
She left word with the woman of the
house to tell Don when he awakened
and went with Fred Hess.
Elizabeth was in bed. She was lying
with her eyes closed when they entered
As she saw Alice she gave a cry. “He
went after you after all! I told him
not to. I told him you wouldn’t come
after the way I’d used you.”
“But I’m here,” Alice said, gently.
“And surely you knew better than that.”
Elizabeth was very Ill. It came from
the water and Injudicious eating, the
doctor said. Alice spent a great deal
of time with her. She had to, for Fred
was clumsy and Elizabeth could not
bear the negroes. - Don gave Alice up
cheerfully. He was going about by
himself now—“quite a man again,” he
boasted, joyfully. Elizabeth was very
grateful, and Fred was very nice. He i
took Don out in his car, while Alice
stayed with his wife. for Elizabetli
and Alice, they grew back together
again, closer than they ever had been, j
Elizabeth was ill at Flowery Springs j
two weeks, and when she recovered she j
made the Rushes go on with them In j
the car to other points in Georgia. And j
Fred paid all the expenses. Fie was j
very firm about it.
Of course, the Hesses went home first,
but Elizabeth wrote back to say that l
Fred had changed some of his arrange- i
ments, and as soon as Don was able
he was to have the position of head j
bookkeeper In the plant at a salary of i
—well, the figures sent Alice almost
into hysterics for real joy. And, more
than that, there was a new bungalow-
going up in Pink street which the •
Rushes could have, if they cnose, at an
inconsiderable rent, with a privilege to
buy. They could afford that now.
So in the end it all come out beauti
fully, just as the most unexpected
things often do. Everybody who is any
body in Rockland knows the Rushes :
now. And Elizabeth is like Alice’s own j
sifter.
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TEE CODE OF HONOR, THE CODE
DUEDIiO.
The code duello has gone out of fash
ion very largely, but there is a common
understanding that there are yet some
things that may provoke a duel. In for
eign countries the duel idea prevails to
large extent, but the habit has fallen
into disuse in the United States. It was
considered a prime essential to man
hood a century ago and history records
the deaths of a number of men very
pominent in -public life by reason of
the infatuation of the code duello.
One of Georgia’s ante-bellum states
men whose name I withhold, once said
to me: “There Is one insult that I
would never go into the courts to set
tle. If I had a daughter and an ac
quaintance of mine should foul her good
name or reputation I’d never go to
court for a money satisfaction. I’d tell
that man we couldn’t both live on
the same planet at the same time. We
would settle that dispute with duelling
pistols.”
I said to myself, “And what satisfac
tion would you get if you killed him,
and what profit would you gain if he
killed you?” In my opinion, the best
way to settle such difficulties would
be to placard this bad man in the pub
lic prints and defy him to prove his
falsehoods, a thing that is of course
unpleasant, and never to be resorted to
unless the insult had been notoriously
gross.
A man who will slander a girl’s good
reputation is not worth notice as a
gentleman. He deserves contempt and
derision. If he has betrayed her trust
in him he is not worth a sacrifice of
life or reputation. She has a remedy
in the courts and all the duels in the
world could not make a better settle
ment or fix matters better. Doubt
less there are many wrongs that can
never be fully righted on this side of
eternity, but duelling never gave either
the wrong the right a satisfactory
settlement of political or social diffi
culties. Nature provided fists to fight
with and fists are a long sight better
than pistols.
MEXICO AND ITS PROBLEMS.
That Mexico is to become and remain
a disturbing factor in the days to come,
goes without saying. x
So many Americans have gone into
that country and bought interests of
various sorts, invested their money and
with desires to do more on tb* same
line; that the United States is going to
have a constant problem to keep the
peace. When an American moves over
into Canada, he must either become a
citizen of Canada, and become amenable
to the Canadian government, or move
out again. Not so with Mexico. Wheif
our folks go over they, they do not in
tend to relinquish any rights that be
long to them as Americans, but they
want the strong arm of the United
states, to give them protection for life
and property, Much of the present fuss,
has been stirred by restless adventurers,
who are greedy for what they can find
in Mexico.
And the difference between Canada
and Mexico is exactly the difference
between the English government and the
Mexican government. One is strong and
powerful and the other is continually
torn with inside or domestic and social
revolutions. If Mexico had a citizenship,
independent and dignified there would be
quiet in that country today.
For my part, I should vote against
any interference with Mexico. Bet the
greasers fight it out among themselves.
I have been through one civil war, and
remember all about the Mexican war in
the forties. War is worse than any
thing I know anything about, and what
ever else we fail to do, let us fail in
going to war with Mexico*
When we were in the throes of civil
war, we fully expected France and Eng
land to butt in, on our side, and we cast
many longing looks over their way. But
they did not help us, and they were wise
as nations, “to shinny on their own
side,” and let us fight out the best v e
could. f
As we would have been thereafter
mixed up with foreign alliances, 'I for
one prefer to mix with my own sort of
folks, even in defeat. When Mexico ex
hausted herself and has to stop fight
ing, there will be enough greasers to
take fiver the government, if there is
any independence, dignity or love of
country left among them. If there is
not enough, we don’t want the “mixtry
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