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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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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. i ^OUNTRY rjOME TOPIC? Cb/ipocra vrjns.UH.JELTO/1, ! 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. 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