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The statement of Ernat Haeckel
that "human nature haa no more value
f.ir the untveree at large than an ant
or the fly of a summer's day" does not
square with the facts. Man has more
Importance for the universe In whole
rale and detail than any of the lower
animals, for he learns enouch about It
n Improve It and Increase Its value,
while they get a Ihrtf out of It with-
mit enhancing Its worth a particle
Consider the difference In the value of
the American continent today, as
pared with Its value four hundred years
nan. uhen Columbus discovered It. The
present wealth of America Is more
than aufllclent to buy out the whole
Ka'tern hemisphere of the world as
tnr people knew It before H9!. And
It la all owing to what man has added
to It. The beavers have not helped
any, nor have the ants or the flies or
the mosquitos. The thoucht wo call
instinct, the animals and Insects carry
an their blood, does not *row. It Is
wonderful, but It Is stationary.
The common mussel Is provided with
a rope which may be attached to a
•tone or twlx to hold the animal and
iik youna in position aaalnst the cur
rent of the stream.
The weaver bird has a loom built
Inin Ita little body by which from
threads and vegetable filaments It man
ufactures a water-proof fabric of dense
eiructure to protect Itself and Its young.
The geometry In the bee's body en
ables It to build cells with so much
economy of space and materiel as to
crowd Into a email room ample atorage
of sweetness to sustain the young bees
in* Hie Winter time when no honey Is
found on the leaves. The swallow, in
building Ita neat, drives Its tunnel first
upward then downward. In order that
(he nest may be projierly drained, thus
saving the young birds, both within the
eggs and when hatched, from destruc
tion. The egg of the dog-flsh Is pro-
tided with a system of spiral cables
like tendrils of climbing plants. These
feelers reach out In every direction and
whenever they encounter an object
which they can selxe, twine themaelves
-‘-•■i 1 11 “"A the egg In
until it In hatched. The eggs of the
piat are arranged* by the parent Inaect,
In the form of n rift, which floate with
It* concaye aide uppermoat. , If upset
It speedily readjuata Itaelf and can not
be kept under thwwvftter. At.the.prop
er time a valve In the lower part of
each egg open* and the young Inaect
•scapes Into the water beneath. The
African monkey bullda for Itaelf and
Ita young a ahed. by pinning together
the leaven of the palm. The cry of the
14 ■ f or g iHeIlef~Ia~aUp-
young awaTTow.
piled by adobe houaea which the moth
er bird bullda for them. All the prlncl
of mechanic* and engineering
which man haa used In the construe*
tlon of hia material civilization. have
been applied In the domain of Instinct
to give to the young raven* and to all
other apeclea of blrda. aa well aa the
young of animate which cry for their
food and shelter and transportation.
In reading Darwin, we are astounded
at Hhe myriad of atrange device* which
the Inaecta and lower anlmula find built
Into their bodies for feeding and pro
tecting and tranaportlng their young.
The armor of the crab, the ahovel of
the ahovel-flah. the adobe houaea of
the swallows, the tunnela of the mole,
the plate-armor of the armadillo, the
gelatlnoua rope of the water-nnail, the'
cocoon of the emperor moth, the natu
ral defencea of the hedge-hog, the aua-
penalon bridge of the BoutU African
ants, the tall of tho otter, the cloth of
the weaver bird* the boats of the tea-
anemone, the net of tho common bar
nacle. the raft of the Jelly flah, the
honeycomb of the bee, the houae of the
woodpecker, the paddles of the water
Inaect. the oars of the water boatman,
the anglers of the marine animal, the
casting net of the star fish, the anchor
of the water Insect, the ahed of the
African menkey. the rope of the spider,
the rudder of the flah. the hammer of
the monkey, the dam of the beaver, the
spiral cables on the egg of the dog-flsh,
the fortress of the mole, the tentaclea
of the angler flah. the blow* gun of tho
archer flah. the oara of the craw-flab,
the feet of the swan, are only a few of
the devices which God employs In the
realm of Instinct to feed and protect
and transport the young of animals.
It Is to he observed that tn this de-
partment of nature, however, any one
Insect or any one animal has the use of
only one device with which to supply
Its young. The archer flah haa nothing
but u natural blow-gun. with which
curious property It is able to shoot
drops of water from Its mouth with ex
traordinary accuracy to bring down Its
food to supply Its young. The only In
strument the beaver can bring to the
service of Its young Is Its tall. The bee
can protect and feed Its young by the
aid of only Its mathematics and Ita
honey-gathering Instinct.
But to show how Infinitely removed
In distance and sweep and altitude
man Is from the range of Instinct, he
can exhaust and apply every device
and mechanical principle of which he
only gets hints In the lower world, In
the service of his children. Man In
vent* thousands of complicated ma
chine* for tho purpose of supplying
the want* of hts little ones.
Bees are satisfied with a meager
mathematical home and a limited aup-
ply of honey; but the wants of chil
dren are Infinite in number. Dolls,
diminutive bureaus, bedstead*, car
riage*, tops, hobby-horses, harps, lit
tle piano*, little cooking stoves, doll
houses. Mother Goose stories, picture*
without number, only meet In a limited
degree the myriad fancies and wishes
of children. A toy store now Is a ver
itable curiosity shop. It wellnlgh ex
hausts the capacity, of the Engli*h lan
guage to name the little thing* which
in our day are manufactured with ref
erence to pleasing and Instructlng^and
oducatlng young human beings.
It la man who has to struggle for
what he knows by changing hi* in
tuitions Into general Ideas which he
reproduces In modifying climate*, al
tering the ^courses of rivers, Invading
the domain of the ocean, with hi*
fields, and making forests glow on
new ground prepared for them; who
turns the face of the earth from a wil
derness into h blooming garden. He
It Is who finds out the secrets of things
In themselves. He It Is the Almighty
has endowed with n mind capable of
harvesting the thought sown In the
stars, and in the light, and tn the
mighty sea, and in the human spirit.
He tt Is who uses his knowledge to
tunnel mountain*, bridge rivers, sub
due, the ocean, and muke out of wire
DR. J. W. LEE.
and electricity a nervous system for
the social human whole as perfect as
that each Individual has for Ills own
body, lie haa abolished spare and ob
literated time. The great #ether sen
through which suns and constellations
swim he now proposes to subordinate
to his purpose as he uses the At Untie*
and Pacifica. Whether he 1* more Im
portant for the universe at large than
the **ant or fly of a summer’s day” or
not one thing In certain, lie ha* forced
the universe to serve him In an In
finitely •larger sense thnn the ants and
the flies have ever been able to get
it to serve them. The truth I*, the
Author of the universe (which Haeck
el says i* matter and moth n) seems
to b« using him. hi* Intelligence, will
and emotion through which to trans-
inute thr .vl.t.io material order Into
higher calm* of t>elng.
Through flic process of knowing he
I takes Into hi* mind the thought God
put Into the world. He learn* God'
Ideas and then rc-embodlcs them. H<
become* a m. laborer with tho Pren
tor. Ho ho elcurly see* the creative
purpose am. j-a completely- lJcutllleH
hlmsrlf with It in thought and feeling
and volition that tno Almighty u*es
him to put liniNhfng touche* on «h<
thing* He made without hlin. If Ml
rliakl Angel . h.ul left the HiMlne chapel
half finish ed mid had some artist been
able to tak» this work up and complet
It after tin name mastery of detail
and scale m u«u?y seen In the Hist
part, everyhniiy would ‘rave recognised
In the ‘Second artist the qualities of
thought ami feeling they knew in the
first. The most perfect 'specimens of
plant and nnlmsl llfe wc know, are not
such as God made without man. hut
such as He made with man co-operat
ing with Him. The creative process
has anUrcd upon a finer and higher
stag* finer* man appeared on the scene
of activity. The rilHtance from the
crab apple to, the New York Pippin
measure* the human contribution to
the perfection of tho apple. Th© little,
sour, black winter grupes that grow
on the bank* of our stream* have by
the help nf human thought and In
sight been curried up into the large,
sweet, splendid specimens we find for
sale In the markets. The thin-leaved,
diminutive hedge rose has been turned
Into the Mareschal Nlel. The chrys
anthemum iis* been changed from a
shriveled winter pink into u half-peck
of blossom AU fruit* and flowers slid
domestic plants and animal* have been
Increased in »lzo and beauty nnd use
fulness since* man began to co-operate
with thL Creator. He could not help
God do anything If he did not under
stand HI* thought. A lawyer would,
never take a monkey into his office as
partner because a monkey would
never comprehend hi* books.
The thought that the process of cre
ation steadily moved upwurd from the
beginning is the most stimulating and
wide-reaching ever grasped by the hu
man mind. The conviction Is now uni
versal among civilised peoples that
things have the habit, confirmed by the
practice of millions of ages, of moving
up. No one can resist the conclusion
that they will continue to climb through
the ages to come until the purpose
they were appointed to work out 1*
fully realised. But It I* clear that
since tho uppcarance of man on earth
tlic creative process has seemingly as
cended through the highway of the
human souL •
Horses, cattle, sheep and all animals
that havo promise of a career on earth
go up into finer forms by way of the
human spirit. Chrysanthemums, rone*,
honey-suckle* and bII flowers, aa well
a* pear*, watermelons, grapes, peaches
and all fruits, climb now by the way
of thought. Pigeons, ducks, chicken*
nnd nil totrd* ascend through human
life. The ascending process after nn
active buxines* carer r of from fifty to
one hundred millions of years along the
lines of mutter and motion, seems to
have made n complete change in Its
method of procedure when man ap
peared on the aceno of activity. Blunt*
and animal* struck not for higher
wages, but for a different road up
which to travel. Things generally ap
peared averse to climbing any more
except over the human roadway. At
the first man was new to blmaelf and
the world was new to him. It haa ta
ken some thounands of years to build
a human highway broad enoufh for all
possible, out of business. It has closed
the careers of the Bchopenhaurs. and
the von Hartmans. It has caused a
complete change In the outlook of the
human race, leading It to see no longer
Ita Ideals In the narrow Edens of the
past, but to 4 press toward a paradise in
the future where all the sons of men
shall stand together in the wide, am
ple gardens of God. Tha companion
thought to that of the general upward
movement throughout all time and
Kpace la the one that since man’s sp-
But with the process *of the suns
thought* of men have widened until
now there In ample space for all
things tn move abreast along the up
ward way. Atoms, molecules and com
pounds, electricity, heat and magnet-
Ism. gravitation, chemlsm and ether,
as well as orgunlsins of every grade
nnd type are all finding their way to
higher realms of existence through hu
man nature.
The conviction that underlying mat-
th* And motion and life there has been
,«.■%* ascending purpose, widening and
deepening, and gradually disclosing It
self, haa come as a bracing and univer
sal tonic to the modern mind. It has
put pessimism, together with the athe
ism and agnosticism, which made It
pea ranee on the planet, the divine par*
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pose has been moving town
summation through the Intelligence
and will and emotion of humanity.
Through man. lands and rivers and
places are tranaflgured. The barren.
i
through Jn.hu. and David
Into a country of fadeless baauty. Sun- j
burst and ruck-ribbed Orm,-g*U an'
4MMV-:
eternal lease on Immortality I
Tha Scotland of air Waller Scott 1
finitely more attractive than waa hia
native land before It began to glow
In the colon ofht* genius. Tha ws-
Bonnls .
Amnon The Avon outranks tha Mle-
■iMlppt. - Not only through the fUNju
genlu. of men an thlnga enhanced in
value, but through tho practical genlu,
and patience of men an living things
advanced to higher usee.
Haeckel may not can to •hare in
tho glory tho unlvene haa r
around men by selecting hint '
medium through which to
for tha lowly estimate of blrofeUt
aspire, to no higher level than that oc
cupied by tha ant and the ny; but
be haa no right to publish books Ailed
with Idea, which would load the reot
of tho human race to feel >« humble
as h, dose. One would think, tn hie
oltompte to fool aa unimportant aa tha
ant or fly, that ha dleplayed enough
of the eplrtt of salt-eOaosraent to mt->
lefy the demand In that line of things 1 -
for tho whole of mankind. On* mor
tal on earth feeling that way la at
dally whan tt la rememb
has not a single eano reason for taking
such an enormoualy low estimate of
HOW.TO BE GOOD
"Jsaus • • • who want about doing
good." Acts x.
tr
tunity do good unto all msn."
tiana vi.
; j
teaoeeeoeoigMf ••teooeteet
MHilllltMHUtHH
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
I T WA8 through association one
whole day recently with on At
lanta business man who Is well
known among hi* friends as a man de
voted in an unostentatious yet unusual
way to giving hi* time and his money
t.» people In trouble thnt it whs Im
pressed upon me that on no vital sub
ject are C*hriMttatj» people generally
mors confused than upon the subject of
goodness and what It 1* to be good.
Whnt n variety *»f LHm prevail »* to
what 1* the emphesl* of the Christian
life! Ho great n uivision of ideal hi-
deetl tb«l one- mlsrht -suppose tfu.t
- ouneil flhr, !*"'
Christs, each different in life
teaching from the other. Instead, a* we
know. Just one single Jesus t’hrlM,
whose life was lived tm clear line*,
whose work was done with distinct em
phasis. and. whose tenchlngs square
perfectly with His own life and method,
Wlimt is It to be good and how to oe
good, two thousand years after a per
fect man life was lived out on this
planet nnd whose met hod. manner and
example of livli
Jiving were recorded, seem
still unsettled questions, among those
who agree In a formal allegiance to
Jesus Christ? What l* the fault? How
can we account for the variation of
conception In this matter of goodness
which produce* such contrary results
In Christian life and character ns to
threaten the claims of Christianity as
the religion of “one Lord, one Faith
nnd one Baptism?"
Now, I have never reached the point.
Baptist though I am. when I believed
that the Ineffectiveness of Protestant
ism was entirely due to the fact that
all Protestants were not Baptists, not
have I reached the point. Protestant
though I am to the core, when I be
lieved that the Inefficiency of Chris
tianity" was entirely due to the fact
that nil Christians are not Protestants.
Hut I have reached the point nt which
I do profoundly realise and believe that
the failures and weaknesses of nil re
ligions arc due to the fact that Jesus
Christ Is either unknown, rejected or
Imperfectly realized. This Is especially
true of the religion that bears His
name. ThereJs no tenson for our fail
ure to agree on what goodness Is and
no real excuse for our fAllure to And
out how: to be good men and women.
There is Christ. He Is the Christ Ian
idea! of goodness. There are His teach
ing*. They are not uncertain nor con
fused. yet here we are In uncertainty
und at variance.
Do You Want to be Good?
It 1* Inconceivably the dlvinest as-
! set <»f human nature that the desire to
be good Is In the heart of the human
Irace. LThere would be nothing tojjralld
lon^ nothing, to build from, no pap
Ipling point for the gttlce of God, no
response, no energy and no possibility
of Improvement or virtue if that were
not there. There Is something In a
little seed—a life unsatlsfled, that
meets the sunshine, takes hold upon
the soil and bursting the outward
shell, cllrpba upward In plant nnd
ower to something better. On an In
finitely larger scale and grander fact
there Is In man an upward yearning
and It Is this that pledges and pro
phesies to eery man safeguard nnd
opportunity. The desire to be good Is
our capacity for God. 1 have sahl the
greatest thing that can be affirmed
about a man when I say thnt he can,
fore, If he will the unspeakable privi
lege of respondin' to the Holy Spirit
and of receiving Jesus Christ. With
out this desire to be good he could
not do that. I do not know enough to
*nv thnt every man has It. I do not
know enough to say that some have
had It, nnd have utterly lost It. But
this Is true, the last thing a man or
woman loses before the descent Into
the gloom of GodUsaneas nnd despair I*
the old dream, the old longing, the di
vine heritage of desire to be good nnd
to attain virtue.
I believe that If the desire to be
good, submerged though it was. am!
discernible only to the penetration of
God’s compassion, had not been In man
Jesus Christ would not have come Into}
the world, would not have died for j
men. for there would have been no be- •
ginning point for the Gospel, nothing!
for It to appeal to. But that Jewel of!
desire, tarnished beyond human detec- |
tlon nnd Us original glory* dimmed re- (
mnined. thank God, the little gleam of.
hope und possibility In human nnture. J
'Upon that Jesu* CTifisr Betxert, upon’
that He built His fires of repentance.'
upon that He restored the broken ul- I
tars of prayer, upon that HI* regener
ation found footing. Human nnture I* *
depraved, worse thnn that. Its sltuutlon I
Is a tost condition, an utterly lost con- i
dition. but thero Is something In It •
still that God held worth saving. That!
in a man (hut 1*'worth saving is deep!
laid divineness of desire to be good, to
get back to God. What else mean*
Job’s questionings after God In the
desert, the altar* and temples of socr
rlflce among heathen people, the up-
looking and soul hunger of Bocratek
and Epictetus? Listen at Mr. Huxley
protesting that If some great power
would agree to make him good on con
dition of being turned into a sort of
clock and wound up every morning,
that he would Instantly close with the
offer. Attend the death couch of Wal
ter Bcott an«l hear his last tender word
the man he loved best In the world.
Ids own son-in-law, Ix>ckhart—“Be a
good tnan. my dear; be a good man, I j
beg you.”
These are but the high exnresslon*
' something we have every one felt
and known as a very' real unsntlsfac-
tlon tn us, the desire to be*ood. Al
though In tnoods thoughtless and un
meant. we sometimes exploit an as
sumed paganism on this subject, yet.
though we even treat It bitterly and
with reckless hlatancy we know* that
Granted, thnt Is a tribute to woamn.
Still It Is a tribute, however gladly
allowed, which leaves a sinking at the
heart. This condition Is far more prev.
elent In other sections of the w’orld
than here In the Southern states of
America, and here we may yet take
courage, hut the forces are at work
here and conventional ideals of.piety
ar« losing their power to command the
sympathy of men here among us. Lis
ten, to emphasize the fact In our well
know n phrases that a man or a woman
Is good—very good, religious, very
Is with the common average of people
In and out of the church, to advertise
such a man or woman as daft and un
attractive and probably disagreeable
people. I am not defending that. I
- am speaking tht.trulh. In the sight of
God- Tha. prevalent -- conception of
goodness and Us results in morbid,
overstrained and essentially unsympa
thetic Christian character are an In-*
calculable hindrance to the claim of
Christ's kingly cause on men who want
to be good If It meana being finer than
they are, but who honestly believe that
DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
today. Tho ordinary Idea of piety has
lost Its charm for the great multitude
goodness, true goodness Is the high- j outside the church, and ulso for a
est thing that real moral virtue, that
genuine Chrlstllnes* are greater gfler Br,at mu i , ' tu,e of J""' 1 ® the
all. than anything else attainable ml church. Tho moat painful {act devil-
this world. ^ nprtl In modern Christianity la the fact
The Sin, of S.inti.
Every word of what I have said Is
true, and yet on the eubject of good
ness conventional coneeptlona of it
hare but tittle appeal to the men of
ood
known to be true and openly manifest
that Christianity haa lout ao tremen- j
iloualy Ita appenl In men. It I. de
clared that more than tun-third.of the
Chrlallnn cemmunlcanta are women, j menta to turn relict
that way. They have read thr
Teatament. and they ought to be
ashamed not to lake Christianity as
they Itnd It there In Christ and In HI,
dlsclplea, but I aay they have read the
New Teatament, and they know that
the kind of goodneia they isa Illus
trated In many who are railed tha
good men and women Is a warped Ideal
of tt. rto aerloua detect of much piety
la that It Is held as an end In Itaelf
In make those who feel Ita dreamy,
subtle, abstract emotions safe In an
Inauluted selflah salvation.
We are accustomed to cnnonlte, of
aurar, In our limited Proteatant way,
■ he old aalnta of a bygone age, who
lived llvea of cotnpleta renunciation.
Now. I have read the lives of these
men. I truet not without proflt, but If
I am eure of anything In my conscience,
I urn aura that many of them who ara
held up to our admiring gau aa para
gons of gnodnaaa were only religious
recluses, rather than New Testament
Christians.
The temptations to soma tempera-
Into a fanati
cism Is as great and aa evil a thing on
Its part as the temptation of the op
posite temperament to make religion
an adjunct of wnrldllness and Impiety.
Even virtue may be so exaggerated
as to become a vice. Piety ad extremla
Is piety ad nauseam. Paul's reference
to “spiritual wickedness In high
places" Is a pronounced suggestion oT
the fact that the sin of a saint Is some
thing tu be warred against, even aa
the sin or a sinner. It is well for lbs
amen-corners of our churches to
reminded of just exactly what type
crltclsms In the sermon on the mount.
•The Pharisees." as some one says,
“were the Puritans of their time."
One day a little fellow told to hts
mother: - '
"Mamma, I’m so llreii of Bfflfff food.
I don’t want to be good. It's not a
bit of fun to be good.”
The mother did not frown: she
smiled. I notice that you do not look
•hocked, that you amlle, too. Now,
why did the mother smile: why do
you? Was It not a dreadful thing for
the child lo aay, something to be ee-
rlously displeased with? No. Tou
smiled because you are brother to thal
child. To be good meant to the child
be very still and quiet.
that he must
■It up straight: atay In the house and
not bother: that Is tu say, be very
uncomfortable and very unhappy.
Now, goodness as often Insisted on
Is not a bit of fun. With many a re
ligious man the vtrtua of the Christian
life la a constant suppression beneath
an adopted rode of conduct, a rigorous
ronetralnt, an unbending stralt-jaekat
of life to which, of course, they become
In time accustomed, so that the Idea
of discomfort disappears or Is ap-
I>eased by the sense of sacrifice. Good.
nesa then to them consists In the sub
tractions of pleasure. It Is the recru
substitutes Itaelf for everything else
makes monks: religion that penetrates
everything makes Christians."
The Threefold Error.
Tho error of that sort of goodness
Is threefold: Elrat, It le not the kind
OFFICERS
STATE SOCIETY
SOCIOLOGICAL
OFFICERS
ATLANTA SOCIETY
Preeldenl—Dupont CJurrry. Macon. ft«. :
Mrst V..p.—Dr. A. It. HoWerhy, Atlanta. •
Second V.-P.-Dr. E. C. Pecte, Macon. •
Scc.-Treas.-Dr. W. T. Jones. Atlanta. |
Annual Meeting In May. 1907, at Macon. |
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE—Rev. C. B. Wilmer, J.j
D. Clcaton, E. Marvin Underwood, Dr. R. R. Kime.
President
Vic** Pre-
Hrcrftury
Treasurer
Ki'ZUlsr tu
of <
.Mins llnttl*> K. Mnrtlu
t\ K. FolVmi
r*tliiiT second Thursday nletit
tilth nt thi* Cnrnexlr lelhrnry.
PROGRESS /A EDUCATION
RY
DR. THEODORE TOEPEL
ERIOU8NES8 nnd purpose char-
I acterlae all movements>>f com
mon welfare. This was evident
the leal convention of the National
ucatlonal Association, where many
nts of unlvcnaal Interest were dla-
,sed some of which may here he
lew’ed. especially «» at the present
le the subject of education In At-
la Is holdliyt the attention of Its
imoters.
Ve are Impressed with this para
ph taken from the resolutions
ipted:
The National Educational Azaocia-
i record* It* approval of the in-
aalnff appreciation amonx educatora
the fact that the building of char-
rr I* the rent aim of the achoola and
ultimate reason for th* expenditure
million* for their maintenance,
ire I* In the mind of the children
I youth of today a tendency toward
Isregard of constituted authority; a
x of respect for age and *uperlor
dom; a weak appreciation of the
md* of duty; a disposition to Jol-
* *“*,erest rather than
pleasure and Interest •••—
•Atlon and order. This condition
inds the earnest thought and ar-
of our leader* of opinion, ana
Important obligation* upon
>1 authorities,
other passage of Interest to pa-
. as well as tsachers. read*:
tie ultimate object of popular ed-
on Is lo leach children how lo
live righteously, healthily and happi
ly. anil to accomplish this object It I*
essential that every school Im ulcate the
love of truth, Justice, purity and beau-
ty through the study of biography,
history, ethics, natural history, music,
drawing nnd manual art*."
We see here that the common school
has a higher aim than to teach noth
ing hut reading, spelling, writing nnd
ciphering. The Idea thnt tills Is the
chief work of the teacher Is. we nrc
glad to say, an obsolete one. On the
other hand, the complaint that children
are overburdened with too much Is met
by the argument that the trouble Is
not that there are too many subject* In
the curriculum, but that In these sub*
Jecta too many thing* nre taught which
are not worth teaching. There is witerw
waste of time and effort In to be lo
cated with correspondingly poor re
sults.
A committee, appointed to Investi
gate the subjects of teachers’ salaries,
tenure of office and pension*, made a
most remarkable nnd Interesting re*
port, which was conceded one of the
most valuable documents ever issued
by the National Educational Associa
tion. A paragraph taken from this re
port reads:
•One of the most striking develop-
inents of recent years In connection
with city schools is In the exarttng na
ture of the requirements for teachers.
Such requirement* are becoming more
and more severe. The Idea that «ny
high school graduate can teach school
has quite generally been succeeded by
the conviction that no person, however
well educated generally, can properly
I teach w ithout special preparation for
I that duty. The higher standard* w hich
[are being Insisted U|x»n for the teach
er* must lead logically to better com
pensation. The Inadequacy of the
salaries in sonic of the cities, ns shown
toy this report, after the training that
Is necessary to secure the position*.
Ims been used successfully hm an ar
gument for their Increase, and In some
cities It has been admitted where
financial reasons have stood In the way
of granting an advance."
It will be remembered that the presl.
dent of the United Htntes addressed
this great body at Asbury Park. In
his enthusiastic addre-* to the teach
ers he exclaimed:
"You teachers make the whole world
your debtnt*. If you did not tfrr rintr
work well this republic would not en
dure beyond the span of the genera-
tlon. You substitute for the Ideal of
accumulating mnne> the infinitely loft,
ler Ideal of devotion to work worth
doing, simply for that work* sake.
There are few movements In which I
more thoroughly believe than In the
movement to secure better remunera
tion for our teachers."
Superintendent Maxwell, **f New
York, argued that salaries should he
good living salaries to attract and hold
the best and most efficient workers,
also that every,teacher should do the
best work of which he or she l- capa
ble, wherever plated and whatever r.--
munrratlon accorded. He *al I good
service must be paid for. II*- would
take away from local authorities th>*
power of fixing the amount
pended for teachers* salaries nnd would
pliuc it In the hands of the state, lie
urged that we must get ltd of the mis
erable system of annual appointment,
believing In tiermanent tenure Home
Important arguments concerning pen
sion* were made. It was shown that
everything was In their favor, that
pension* free the minds of teachers of
Iw^sltfiil anxiety regarding old age w
be ex-
gu/uent strongly brought forth,
of the t itle* whose teachers nre pen
sioned New York lead* with a pension
roll of nearly half n million dollar*.
Philadelphia. Chicago, Milwaukee and
others follow. We hope to see Atlanta
Included among these names as a mark
of her progression.
Ill a discussion of grent Interest the
irrlvIsatotlHy was shown of replacing
large school committees "ii boards ex
ercising executive functions by small
boards which determine general poll-
ilex, hut assign all executive functions
to salaried export*.
nn school luxation the following was
said:
"Local taxation, supplemented by
state taxation, presents the best means
for the supistrt of the public school*,
and for securing that deep Interest in
them which Is necessary to their great
est efficiency. State aid .should he
granted only as supplementary to local
taxation, and not as a substitute for it."
In regard to the condition of the
schools of Atlanta and considering the
city's marvelous growth, a special
school tax Is the only means of ob
viating the deficiency of school funds!
TURN ON YOUR ENTHUSIASM
By JOHN ANDERSON JAYNE.
H
K III.EW INTO THE OKl’K’K anil r" ynur way. Heroad. hope; unlimited
the other day with a broad an.Ho nn
l.la face, a’ eheerfnl word on Ida Up.
Ilia l.la hand opened wide ter ao ripnnalre
lian.I.Fiako. and the lireeaeai ha ereat-l werw
Icelandic In eflect to "cribbed, ral.lno.1 and
n nod" work era, dlxxlnx away under the
bnn. of the electric tin
III. amlle reached away down nml touched
lie nnrihcaal corner of Ike heart. Ilia
...rd- were jia hrarluq aa wind
Ii. Iinndabake lifted life from low t to
...... . —-j'a pi— .— -
Itchl tl.eae hrlltlaut anuinior ilny.
"ill. ’aYieceaa"waa ’Juat r.dllnc U|. In Bren
‘ ‘ c.tiit.llnlv
hnnha. He hnd e.lnt.llahed hi
nrmty In bla hnnlnen*. Thlny. were cmnlnn
l.ln wny. Over all ftv
hlnfa were r.n
ky fir front »f him
written the one word, "pmainwlly." An
he looked hack he couldn't count n nlmile
f.illnrowtint hnd uot been a Mob l-orluuaa
lu dl.gnlac.
" He wan'm/Tnll of enll.nal
liltely Irre.Inlllde.
anti twmndleaa hope, reatlne, more frequent
’ ’ line. If a men
work. There you bare them. Add them
of ffoodaesa Chliet Inculcated, bat Uu
kind that He crltlcteed. It ta the xnmc
Ideal of Chrtetlan character. Suppoon
the world wen brought Into that .trait
jacket, would It have Ufa and hara it
more abundantly? Would the world
be happier? Second, tt le aoodnees by
■trufclo. That le not the way Chrlit
tnucht that (oodheet wax ncMmd.
“Conatder the llltea." What on* of you
by taklns thoucht can add on* cubit
to hia atatura?
Third, It la an effort after roodnoea
by the wronr method, the method of
•elf-conelderatlon. Now. Chrtit placed ■
before men a high Ideal of character!
"Be ye perfect even aa your Father th
Hoavtn [| perfect,— tmt ~thOH WOi
•omethtnc placed between e««y' UUT
and tht attainment of that final (lory.
What waa It? Tha law of aervice—
the aervice of humanity. "If thou
wouldat be perfect go aell what thou
boat and (Iva It to tha poor and then
come and follow me.” Theee words
war* spoken to n good young man who
had kspt the law. But one thing ha
lacked. What was It? It was th# real
isation that the anprema duty at lUn
Is not to be good, but do good.
Suppose Luka had recorded In tha
Acts of Jotui that -He wont about
being good.- That la Mat what tbs
Cbrtatlantty of the tenth centBfj^dtd.
It built houses and Institutions 1
to be goad in. Monaetertee and nunnar-
lee. It la quits poeilhle for twentieth
century snlnte to proflt by tha evanapke
of tenth century monkism. But otoa.
how vain to argue with on anehortta
(hat ha Is not achieving the true gaod-
neee and that those who ara otherwise
art to be mode objects of prayerfal
pity. -
Do you want tn ba good—la that
your prayer? Then I beg you stop
trying to be good and start nt ouoa
doing good.
Don’t bottle np year <
looie^when^you harejtl.
mnrb , tmMe*maklnjothera"wherein TJ?
Tour enlhaataema will laeerat* other rntbe-
alatma and victory wTU _
r th aa the rainbow orar the earth attar
refreshing rats. „ . _
mur fellows, sad this Uft them from the
Hough of lieepood.
M'vJ&rZrtti
MB FOR TH*
RIAMM
Enthusiastic men who work In th* spirit
of faith, hop* nn.l work alwaya ~
tn anipir , N«W 0. IL, ftflt tH* OW.
Sill P r«J A Chicago girl a*M tfci «*vja an
II ffi Ell atldreaa bafore a girls' dab: “I sdvlso all
/■ ‘“Ve JLV; I of you to ho bow women. 1 urgo you to
»o& "S !■»:. jsuxajttafSssvas
I tiwilvcd pnitilviiis not nn opportunity for Jf, ™ n ,,P V r 01
resting i>n |Mist in hl*r(Mucht. hat the.prick ; ,u# woman. *
Ion; spurring them tn hlghlr thVngs. I "i"".',£?•
Is uo wlut! like the Winn of in III u < JJJM .“* r T| m.-rf-a a unw woman sir ’ tb«
.«t r J primmer UTST MMmS•
ary. ’Aud shv was ao domfn—rlug and •
travagant that It dreys Joa to
Irti't, lie waa
Intoxicat'd with the **uhsr*n<v of hia own
enthusiasm th;«t h*» bubbled over u 'lh iim-
shine nnd rmtlated g'*"l Hirer for all with
nttoin lie i'Mine In enutset.
Under th*» Influrui'e of hi* tnajflc wnnl life
wns seen from « new Hut of view. The
ftnlda of the future were carpeted with tlr-
rlxetl.. *? rtiibrolderle* from the needles urn
liNiuiH .-f I»nm«‘ feature. The rough, tmrd
hills that wound around nml up. the hills
of fttnnttfio paved with tope stone*
e on past
of nmnltlon, sp<
There Is uo i
"Inain. It gives' courage to the nto
hope to the sth’ker nml grace to the uian
who linugs on.
If your work Is falling, lagclng. hanging
hack, turn >»u your spigots of enthusiastu.
I hurt In* af rnhl If you are honest lu your
work your fountnln* won’t run dry. You'll
ftm! plenty of hh»"snnis on the tree of life
from which you may distill fresh enthusi
asm If you will look for them. Thus tusy
you keep a contluusl supply on Up.
'■SS'S
.-jt.lt draft ,
n.nrsr. rhV ’Ho,’ said the prteoaer.
ul.l tromeu turned up,*Argonaut.
Cynical, But Truu.
There wouldn’t be re maar marriages If
a man had any Idea hia wits wnnl.f tree
resemble her mother.-Atehlooo Uletw.
... id lb"
,,..i ii.i.tkl u.aplrnllons nil i
..king ol llfr’n opening. 1“
fountains
long the way.
•k through his
.. ...... seen that Il ef-eii t spelled Vic
thnt the letters In the Word sorrow
ranged themselves so ns to mean Anal
nml happiness When life* grammar
studied with him nt the "Me It was
..vered that out of every Imd comes a
tre-tter nml Hint every l»etter heralds the
i..it, ‘Thnt verb "Is" rather than being
Intransitive verb, I" * transitive, nub-
MeriulUfil henrt. ami
jc-u-t to the will of n determined heart, nml
thnt the only verb In the grammar Is "aball
Eternal nnd touched with Ills fire.
Enthusiasm Is composed of three parts-
first, there Is the element of faith. Not an
mm-li In faith In your work ns faith In
yourself. Faith that you have the ability
and tbu atickablilty to make things cams
THE UNIVERSAL ROUTE.
(Copyright, 1907. ty Amerlcan-Joumal-Ezamlner.)
lurney along, with a laugh and a song.
•o on youth’s flower-ducked elope,
_ _ beacon of light, ahlnlna fair on the sight.
The iK'.iutlful Htatlon of Hope. ,
11 o|i}
- " Like a
llut the W heels of old Time roll,along as we climb.
And with heerte (hat are nutnb with I
To the mint-covered Htatlon of Tears.
Htlll onward we paxe. where the milestones, alas)
Are ihe tombs of our dead, to tha Wait,
f leams. In Ihe d;
tatlon of Reel.
: enaheiry
areal above:
And. Scorning Its rod. It aoare back to IU Ood,
To tha limitless city of Love.