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1 THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AFRICAN MH.ThoOls \ , ^ION CHURCH. '! ' ] ■ Volume XXV Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, April 25, 1901. Number 14 TOPIC: EDUCATION. What Relation Does the Indus, trial Bear to the Higher? BY PROF. M. D. LEE. What should be understood by higher education? What is or what will be its sphere in this new century? The sub ject is often dodged by educated men ; but why? What relation does indus trial education bear to higher education? Higher education has or should have for its object culture and development of thought and action. Serious thought is its aim. The thinking mind should be the base of all education. It is the es sential and true idea of education of every degree, both industrial and higher. The design of all education should be to build up and build out the mind. Higher education and industrial mast unite to accomplish the highest possi bilities of the mind. The channel to higher education or the gates to its portals are being opened by the youth that begins the studies of mechanics,' scientific and skilled work. As he takes his first lessons in the study of scientific culture he tries to determine the meaning of certain mechanical operations, and its relation to other forces in the universe. He be gins 10 think. He now enters within the ga'e. What does it mean to him? He is not studying -machinery and scien tific agriculture for naught. This ac quisition of knowledge leads him on, and on. He must first get rules and a correct and systematic way of doing things. This is the formal work. There is no real education without this feeble beginning. He may make a good tub, chair, wagon hinge, gate or door. This is not the end far the thinking mind nor the significance to be found here. Work must be done intelligently. If the student is too young, he must be led by a well trained teacher. This teacher, if successful, must be a master, not only in one vocation but many, if he is to lead. What is being learned is for the sake of what is beyond. He must be taught that what renders the work or the art worthy of study is the thought in it self or what it carries, and that it is only as he understands its operations^ rules governing its development, that make the search for it safe and more certain in its results, and that these be came more worthy of attention. The object is to make a man. The highest ideals should be held up befdre him. When the thinker has known the thought in its exactness he has secured the reward. There is no better way to start a child to exact methods of think ing than wTith the saw, square, compass, and the use of mechanical art of all kinds. What is true of the boy is true of the girl in cutting and fitting and other domestic arts. The significance of the act is discovered, not the motion through which he is putting himself, or the helps which he is using to ac complish his purposes, but in that which he is moving after, “Higher Edu cation,” or wider fields of thought and action. Now the work, as a beginner that he studies and wrestles'with is a little thing itself. Its value is import ant as a stepping stone to higher life. But a secret was found within them and was worth enough to repay for all ef fort. The industrial institutions are agents ftwnishing- the neccessary supply of nourishment upon which the thoaght ful mind feeds. Thought is to be found everywhere, and the student is to search for it. This will always be true. The uneducated man is like the educated boy, ever seeking for new acquisition. Scienae is now only in her infaney. It is for the youth in the machine-shops of this twentieth century to carry it to higher possibilities. The educated man has a wider vision, with more thorough ly trained powers, larger attainmentst with a capacily always expanding for the reception of new thoughts as they come from every side. The experience and life of the man (educated) are es sentially the same as the learner or youth. We seek after thought as we read and none the less as we work, and find in both truth quickening the mind. We make them our own and thus add to our treasure. As with reading and language so with other things that we study: all open the gateway to higher education and culture. Take up the youth in the work-shop. We set before him apiece of work more or less intricate, or some minor task in his work, that he may help form or es timate it: some rudimentary work that he may get the earliest vision of what isfitting and beautiful. The setting of the task means more than the task it self. In itself it may have little mean ing. It must point to something higher. It must help and stir the mind. So must every step of industrial work in any institution that does not attempt to curb or bridle the thinking mind, I truly believe that the disciples of in dustrial education have to a very great extent misrepresented it as a factor in shaping the destiny of a race. The par ticular problem of industrial education has lost itself, of late, in the idea which is central to it or in tbat„which opens the gateway to higher culture by an ef foit on the part of its followers to give it precedence. . I do not deny that there are blessings pertaining to each, both higher and in dustriailvjedutSalTon; which gives some thought kindred to itself or belonging to its own spher, which are seed of liv ing force. I do not say that a man must be trained in atl the industries before he reaches the sphere of higher educa tion, or finer culture in the languages and sciences, nor do I mean to impress my readers that all who go in the work shops should or will ascend to the higher planes in education; but I do say that the man who has reached these sublime heights of culture would have found it more easily reached had he been trained in industrial arts, and that his life could be used to better advan tages for the masses. The leader of every institution should know industri al arts. Itmaybet.be least of all the seeds in his garden, but it will be a liv ing force. The glory of it by reason of its living force, will develop into a tree in whose branches the thoughts of the very heavens may ever find pleasant\ lodging. The value of all work and seeking and finding out thought, tends to the de velopment of the mental powers of the educated man himself. The soul forces stir the man in the true sense, and he becomes a thoughtful being. He may not be a Thales, Solon, Virgil, Milton, Gladstone, Bismark or Blaine, neither a Price or Douglass but, as educated, and because he is educated, he is thoughtful, rich in his resources for himself and fpr others. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Lancaster, S. G. Bishop Hood’s Appointments. APRIL. 26th,.Brooklyn, E D 28th.New York MAY l-7th,. Providence, RI,N E Conference 8-14th... .Port Chester,NYGonference Bishop Lomax Appointments. APRIL. 25th. 26th. 27 th-28 th. 4 .Warren Stand . Creek Stand .. .Baromville PROF. B. A. JOHNSON. Livingstone College in Tears Over His Death. BY J. EMM AN AGOfeKY . In the stillnes of the nli'll While many locked in the gentle embraceol Morpheu > were sporting in Dreamland. Death stole into Hur t* lngton Hall into a room where the lights wore burning loW; anxious friends, loved ones, and colleagues standing beside in silence, and whispered into his ear a msSfage unheard by any but the invited, and he bidding farewell to this vale of tears happily soared on angel’s plnons making for the mansions In the skies. Can thi3be death? Livingstone sin in ashes and in sackcloth refusing to bs c tmforted and with her mourns Mother Zion ior Prof.Benia rnenc mient term o ily a member of the Senior College or the highest class in the school, I Wnenas president me term of Air. Johnson I expired, it was near Commencement season a id being the only member in the Senior CMleg.' C.iV'S he wt- re-elecced. He graduated fr. m Hi& Classical department in 18P0,receiy i lg the degree of A B., and with the honors of bb;h a saiutatorian and valedictorian Imme diately after his graduation he was called a vay lo fill the f rincipaHhip of a school In Birmingham, Ala., where in two years he brought the school under discipline, increased the number of students aud won the respect ! and praise of the neighbors and thus reflected honor and glory on his Alma Mater. Such was his demeanor both during and after school thu 1 e was called back by the Faculty in 1892 to id 1*1 a place which now, to say the least, will be hard to fill He gradually rose from one rank to another until at his death he was not o i y General Manager of the Printing Office and Book Room, Principal of the Normal De PROF. B. A. JOHNSON, A* M. nriin A-Wthony Johnson, one of her most de 'voted-ehampions and able representatives who waseadled hence early Saturday morning at the hoar of 12:55. April 20th. 1901. Bora, February 2, 1838 <Jt Christian parents, ■he enjoyed the rare advantages of a model ! home and was ever proud-after he had left the | matannal fireside to face the sterner realities ’ ■of life to speak of his dear father (Dr J. B,' Johnson, deceased^. who instilled in him the j -Ideas of true manhood, and of his loving moth- j er ■‘• that dear angel" who led him up to man i and whom he neverknew t-o err. Heattended the graded sehool in his native ■city Louisville, Kentucky, passed to Louis ville <Uigh School whence he regularly gradu ated with honors winning a gold medal ip an oratorical contest and the golden opinions of all his tea:hers—the dux of his class. Then ! only about 17 years of age he evidei ced his j wonderful capabilities as a 4>orn teaeher in j Nelson County of that State. Butiiearlng of Dr. J„ C .. Price and Living-' stone .College he made up his .mind, saved j his earnings, and left In the Fail of 1885 lor j Salisbury, N. C. Entering, he made the Mid dle Class rfjthe Normal Department, a^depart ment of which he was principal at his death. He wasatudious,obedient, and courteous, and so great was his love for learning that he was promoted during the same session to the Sen ior Normal Class and graduated In the Spring of 1886 with class honors. He was one of the “Dark.Day Students,” and was always envia bly proud when he had to refer to the days when he -“studied Astronomy through the root.” It was during this time when invited by Rev. W.B. Fenderson, A. B., S.T.B.,now at Asheville, N. C., but then a fellow-student, that he entered and became a member of the College Y. M. C. A., through whose Influences he shortly afterwards embraced faith in the , saving power of Christ Jesus. The four years that he spent in the classi cal department were even more remarkable than before. He wai private Secretary of ( Dr. Price, superintendent of the Methodist ( Sabbath-school In the city, foreman and sub editor of the Stab of Zion, when Mr. now Hon J. C. Dancy and Rev. but now Bishop j ft. W. Clinton edited the Stab. The Living Stone, the College journal, was founded by Dr. Price and him, he being probably its first ‘ editor. He enjoyed the distinction of being , the only student who as the president of The ( Hood Literary Society was-re-elected when his J term had expired. Tniswas uncustomary yet customary. It has beeu the custom of the Lyceum to elect as president for the com partmeut, and Financial Secretary of the Col lege. hut besides) others, he Bwas the Book Keeper as well as the Secretary of the Trus tee Board. No student w o ever heard him or saw him ■will ever h>rget him. To ail who passed tnrougli his department ho was their friend. With the Boys, or, as he always preferred to tall them, young men, he was not only a tercher, a friend, and an adviser, but a mod el. As au influence for good for, in, and in the iuteibt of the College, Dr. Goler and Dr. Moore can the better tell. All cannot be said of ye ’Feseor Johnson, tie loved his Church, the Church in which he was born and bred, and the last public talk he made was in the capac ity of the Superintendent of the College Sun day-school appealing to the student body to rally on Master Sunday in the interest of the A. M. E.iSlou Publication House, His devotednes8 to the Y. M. C, A. work was remarkable. In his student days during his presidency he succeeded with the help of the members in dtting up a room and pro curing the long seats some of which are still In use both for Y. M. C. A. purposes aod ou the campus In Spring afternoons. As a teacher he regularly attended the meetings, always had something good for the boys and was virtually our encyclopaedia on Y, M. C. A matters. The young men always called him “Our General Secretary.” He visited every year some Y. M. C. A. Convention and It was through his suggestion that the Fac ulty year before last invited the Y. M. C. A. Conference of the Caroiinas hither last No vember. His work along the Y. M. 0. A. line was so telling that at the last Conference which met here he was elected to go to the Y. yf,C. A. Jubilee to beheld next June in Bos ton as delegate representing all the associa tions in North Carolina. He was a race man also. At the time >f his death he was the President of the Bu reau of Education In the National Afro imerican Council. He was an Inspiration to ihe students, and the sum total of his sever al talks may be put in these words which he >ften repeated: "■Be men, be women-, be men, be women; BE dEN, BE WOMEN; for as yet as , a race we lave not much to crow over.” This the kind of man we have lost— a bom eader, and whose preliminary funeral abso lutes were conducted last Sunday morning he 21st Inst. Being a Sir. Knight In the Ma onic Lodge eis corpse was brought in the College Chapel, all the pall-bearers being E CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE. SK3 WORD SERMOMS. The Hasses Need Good Simple Practical Sermons,. BY >11SS OLIVE BR'UOET Editoi- of the Star of Zion:—lie ter •ingto an editorial in your paper of ipril 18, permit me to say that I agree with the author of this thought: “The great need of ihe world to-day is the plain and simple presentation of divine truth. In preaching, wbat is the advantage of using big words that the majority of the people do not under stand?” Yet now oiten one attends acliureh where they are not any more enlight ened about the Gospel at the close of services than before. Some clergy men make a point of delivering sermons regularly which can be understood only by a few of their congregation. What the masses need is good practical sermons. Scientific preaching some say is necessary. That is true. How ever, a large number of churches have pastors whose sole object seems to be to display their knowledge of the Eng lish language. A certain class only who can grasp the sense of the sermon, re turn to their respective homes feeling more self-satisfied than ever, elated over their ability to comprehend the meaning of many unnecessary words used in the sermon. It may benefit them beyond expression, bbt another class, understand the meaning of each, single word in itself, but their connecr. tions in the unintelligable manner in, which some sermons (as well as ora tions) are delivered, make it impossible? for them to get even a faint idea oftfcp object of the sermon, it is the Chris tian spirit to preach only for the egoism of “some” of the members. Still ^another class realize this, and as they do not understand any of the sermon accuse their minister of partial ity, Does it not seem so to them? That spirit of self-satisfaction is the very wrong spirit to encourage. Yet there are numbers who draw by these “big word” sermons grand conclusions of their intellectuality, alertness and commune with themselves as did the Pharisees. Of course some will say She minister is not to blame if people look at his sermons in a wrong light, but a practical sermon of the duties ivhich lie around u£, love to the neigh 3or and in fact in every way simple, )lain and like our Lord’s sermon on ■he Mount, is sure to reach the hearts ' >f “all” and not increase the pride of ; “few.” 97 Orange St, Albany, If. T. Kshop I. C. Clinton’s Appoint ments. KAY. ih, Biddleville, JN. C_'.11 am ;h, Clinton chapel.8 pm ;h, Center Grove....7.30 ;h, Mowinglade..7.30pm ■h, Matthews Station. ..7.30 p m h. jonesville. 7.30pm )th, Pineville No 1.7.30 pm th, China Grove..11 a m th, Pineville No 2.7.30 pm P. O. Address from May 4-10,412 W. ill St, Charlotte, N. C. There are very few occupants of the . M. E. Zion pulpit who equal Dr. J. arvey Anderson in fermonizing and itural eloquence.—Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) dvaeate. Bishop G. W. Clinton, D. D , who is ire delivering his yearly course of lec tres to the Tuskegee Bible School, •aced the Zion pulpit ob the Sabbath rening of Easter, and delivered a sohl iviving sermon to the edification and jproval of his hearers.—Zion Church Torkcr.
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