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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N: C, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1921, NINE . (i ! s i ; The Perils of the Present ' . ., , - By THE REV. GEORGE STANLEY FRAZER, Pastor of Fifth Avenue Methodist Church Author of "The Facts of Faith" and "Christianity and the Man of Today" ' Harvard University is carved on a t0, nf stone a noble utterance from lf Lrlv clays o 1643: "After God a carded us safe to New England a wo bad builded our houses, pro-nect-ssaries for our livelihood, rPd convenient places for God's r9narSUin anrt settled the civil govern-t- on of the next things we longed , and looked after was to advance ;IrDinff and perpetuate it to poster leAr iJLriinir to leave an illiterate tv: u" to " .sent ministers shall lie in the dust." are great and noble words from . Pilgrim fathers who came to this World, braving th? perils of the j n landing on the rock-bound coasts, i dwelling in tne midst o Pathless ...tj! Those were clays of hardship I0'r f'nirele. days fraught with a . -.i-v-c"t iTinw enpn u a nftin measure oi auici Uv.. ; temptations for the people of an .h-am-Pd civilization. It is true that' i, , witches of Salem and the hard hfologios ot men like r Jonathan Ed ards arc no longer present to haunt ,r modern habits of thought, but it is ,M true that we haveiin a Very large ,eaiurc departed fronY the ideals which animated their purposes. 71 we re tru to the facts of life we are compelled to confess that " our. educa tional sentiments have changed alto Let her "for better or for worse." No nnp would care to revert to those days when educational opportunities and -auipnients were so scant-and far re moved from the life of the average man but we cannot but deplore the tendency of any system of education which is directed not so much toward the development of that which is rio t,it in life as to enable youth to get things- QUlCKiy. KUSMII waa-uyi. iai afield' when he said: "Education is the leadlnp of human souls to what Is best, and making what is best' out' -of (them; and these two objects are always at tainable together, and by the same means. The training which makes-men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others." But of m int alue is such a definition to those r ho would learn only enough to enable them to get and to get quickly? for getting: that A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pier ian sDr'insr. v draugnts intoxicate There shallow the brain. And drinking again." largely sobers us I'e'verHion ( Educational Ideal When we think of the more than lighteen million children In the com mon schools of our country, and of the millions of youth in the other in stitutions of our land, it is enough to move us to deeply ponder as we listen lo their footfall. These are to be the future guardians of the history and traditions of this republic. "What ideals will animate them as they are en trusted with the affairs of humanity? Thir administration, of that .which has teen bought at such, sacrifice and which is vital to the life of the fu ture wiii df-nend upon the faith and the vision by which they are now be lng led. , What a wail of lamentation is utter rd at the fdght of thousands of young men turninir from the learned profes tinns to enter the arena of trade and commerce! In his Yale address, Presi- int White spoke of materialism as "an evil spirit that has given its cup of sorcery to vouth and beguiled them from the paths of noble scholarship and th intellectual life." There are jnanv who believe that never again shall w sep the like of Longfellow or Whluler. Bancroft -or Presoott, Beecher or Brooks, because, we are forgetting t ir r-.irt that monv is for life, and not life for money. No man can realize the lenign power in weajth until he sees the forces stored up In money liber ated and employed for the enrichment of lif. When men are blinded by a coarse and grovelling greed they inevi tably. Iofc sight of life at the point wlinre it i: most worlh seeing that unpurchaseable, imperishable beauty thru gives to life itp real value. Kstfinnting Life In Terms of the Dollar And 3ust lure we are made to feel the treacherous falseness of the ma terial estimate 0f ijfe. In no way is this more easily recognized than when a man is estimated by his worth in money. Dr. Van Dyke gives an account of a ha.nn.net. when "two great rail roads and the major part of the sugar nnd oil in the i'nited States sat down with three gold-mines and a line of Mi-ainships." "JIow much is that worth?'- asUs thp curious inquirer. "That man." answered some walking business directory, "is worth a million dollars, and the man sitting next to him is not worth -a nennv " A mnBt natural-answer for oe : who judaS L v TTO' then' is a man better than vaWaWCalth-U the measure of value, and the - end of life the acquisi tion riches? , There are men who put virTui ln evei,ything-honor, love, virtue heaven. And In' this .lies the tragedy of materialism it "is the tragedy of. low, and shallow ideals. .ill,ttle .wonder at the pitiful of faith n our dajr, our dearth of vision, and - our nervous fret and worry and fear, when we consider the influence of the materialistic ideal on the whole strutiim nf . thought and life. How-many men lack proportion because of an inner poverty occasioned by neglect? Too many men allow their impulse after something Higher and more ennobling to end with a mere wish or an occasional vagrant desire. Here is a business man, who, reeling a need in commercial affairs, does not stou until ha maKtrH- I the ways and means ' whereby what he "s"eB may oe obtained. Yet in the higher and more important concerns of life, which involve his wealth of soul, hla peace of mind, and his influ ence for good, he leaves all to chance. He sees unmistakably the lack of wis dom' of which he is guilty, still, he continues in his course day in and day out. Yet more tragic and pathetic is the picture of a man of power, hard ened like Silas Marner by selfish greed, and who thinks of the church as a kind of "divine police force to hold the masses in check," while he plunders. Such is the picture of Eldon Parr por trayed in "The Inside of the Cup" by Churchill. Here is a-man who lives by the law of the jungle six days in the week and tries to make up for it by ; worship and charity on the seventh. He looks on business as one thins: and religion as another. He cannot see that religion and every day life must be one or that iboth are futile. He thinks i that to support his church- furnishes him with a license to loot. Nor is the character far overdrawn, for when we come to look about us, we discover that it is altogether too real. Such is the inevitable fruitage of appraising life" in dollars and cents. The State and Humanity Influenced Not only religion and the church, but the state and humanity have felt the frightful blight of materialism. In stead of thinking in terms of human ity, men havebeen thinking in the di alect of nation, creed and party; and this has done much toward preventing the light of good will from shining in Jts beauty upon this passion-clouded eartn. Only last week, in a speech before the Welsh National Liberal councih Premier Lloyd George of England, asked whether anyone could say that the need for unity has passed, and ex claimed: "I wish to God everybody could. It worries me, it fills me with dread. If someone could tell me the danger has passed, someone . with au thority, someone with vision, someone whose wprdwe could take, I should be so glad that I would sign my resigna tion tomorrow." The British premier described the present day situation as "a world reeling under the most ter? rible blow ever dealt, when giganttc events are In the making-." But we need not look for any permanent bet terment until there Is a transvaluatlon of patriotism from a tribal loyalty to av universal allegiance until out of the deepening sense of human solidarity there springs -up a world patriotism, large of vision and benign of spirit. And when this larger vision proclaims its universal sovereignty, we shall have done with the arrogant wa'r-lofrd,; deceitful diplomacies, and the merci less appeal to brute- force. When we are willing: to admit the truth, we shall find that we have been trying to accomplish an impossible task we have been trying to build a Christian civilization on a pagan foun dation, we have been endeavoring -to establish a social order upon a brutal basis. Such is manifestly absurd. Greece learned the truth at a frightful cost when she built her structure of art and life upon a basis of inhuman ity to man. which resulted in her de cline and fall. And just so shall we fall If we attempt' to rear our civiliza tion uDon any basis but that which be fits th worth of humanity. The hu man ordr that will be permanently es tablished is that which takes into ac count God's immutable law of moral pravitation. That man shows himself a true idealist and a real philosopher who is not awed iby pompous splendor and who does not worship bigness. The irlorv of a nation cannot be measured by extent of territory or vastness of-4 wealth. What then is the real value of life and In what does it consist? Is it to be found ifl place, or fame, or wealth? J If J .tyfe 0 $ II IF JeM ' SrfH 'J'iffMrt The hlfe Valentine attraction, onentva Monday. , , ' . twp-day aament ; . Not at all. jt is not wealth that makes man" or poverty that unmake him, The real worth of life is to be found not in the things a man hag or does not have, but in what he is. We need to revalue' our values In the light of His star who placed the things of the soul above all else to be prized. We need to study nature, and nature's God, as did Robert Burns, that we may see beauty in "the fold of clouds, in the slant of trees, in the glint of flowing waters, in the mists trailing over the nills, that our minds may be wrapped in a kind of enthusiasm for Him, who in the language of the Hebrew bard, 'walks on the wings of the wind.' " Dlcuatn Between Faith and Science Perhaps nothing in our day has, bred such Innumerable errors and countless perplexities as the confusion which has arisen from "the discussion between faith and science. Nothing can be more amusing than the credulity with which men swallow anything wearing the name and label of science. Let a man put forth any kind of dogma and call it scientific and it will be accepted by many as indisputable truth. Some have rone - to the length of believing that science is all knowledge and re ligion all faith. And it is not to be wondered that contentions have arisen, when such a book as "Varieties of Re ligious Experience," by William James, is allowed to pass for a scientific study of religious experience. One would think that the author was writing "a thesis on the pathology of religion," dealing almost entirely with what might seem to be its excesses and ec centricities. He seems to lose sight of that deep stream of faith and vision, which has been flowing on down the ages and making fruitful that whloh was barren and desolate. It is manifestly absurd to assume the defensive attitude toward science, as thought-we 'were afraid of fact, for when- we come to understand them, we find that science and religion both rest upon the same fundamental basis of faith, and both attest, each in its own manner, the kinship of man with God. Still, religion is well within her rights wluen she brings to task that type of scientist, who would translate all forces and qualities back into material terms, and looks on the - soul of man as nothing more than the effervescence of matter, and places the fungus . of the field on a parity with the genius that lies within man. There is some thing in the nature of man that is at eternal enmity . with any theory that appraises in like value the sap of the tree and the spirit of the saint, be cause unconscious matter has no rele vancy aaginst the spiritual order. Nor is man to stand abashed in the presence of thai bewildering contrast of his apparent littleness and the over whelming vastness of the physical uni verse. Lord Kelvin has given us a hint of the incredible richness of the star filled heavens, with its thousand mil lion suns and planets. In comparison with this measureless expanse of space, our earth is but a pin-point. As one astronomer put it: "If God dis patched one of His angels to discover this tiny planet amongst the glittering nosts of His stars, it would be like sending a child out on some vast prairie to And a speck of sand at tht root ot some blade of grass." What then Is man with his petty cares and fleeting life? Pascal says: "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but ne is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the whole universe should arm it self to crush him a vapour, a arop ox water .suffices to; kill mm aut tnougn the universe should crusn mm, man would- still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies," and the advantage which the universe has over him." The universe is unconscious of its own vastness. It is.- andiviill always be .a masj of brute, unintelligent matter, tt 'never felt the touch" of Its Creator's hand, ana we imv b very sure that in the Bcale ot God's Judgments its vastness has no value against a spiritual order. God is a Spirit, and spiritual values with jrTim must be supreme. Religion Sot a Matter of Scientific experiment Science is rapidly coming to see tha; Its method does not exhaust the uni verse, and that, as an eminent scient ist has recently said, "if we dogmatize in a negative , direction, and say that we can reduce everything to physics and chemistry, we gibbet ourselves aa ludicrously narrow pedants, ana dxo falling far short of tne nennens .m fullness of our human birthright. God cannot be discovered by analysis, neither can he be understood by argu ment. He will not be found by explo ration of the universe, or by mere In vestigation of cold facts. Said one: 1 have searched the heavens for years nd have not found God." His failure was not surprising, neither was any rane man disappointed W. do not test jr,ir. hv tb stetescope, nor ooci by'teTescope or microscope." We can not know man by dissecting him. we j know him by some quality that is high- , er and nobler than physical analysis. , We may examine his brain, his sinews, , his bones, his arteries and fail to find, the touch ot his genius, or the force ot t his love From a scientific standpoint j we may fall in tracing the movements i of his inward life, but still we shall; know him through that mysterious and j inexplicable communion tnat exisis o- tween our souls. ,.. Np experiment in apologetics can suffice to satisfy mere scientific curi osity As Dr. Fitchett has expressed it- "You cannot catch your thief and inject Christian principles into him. with a hypodermic syringe, as you in ject ' drugs. You cannot inoculate a harlot at will, and with a lancet. Chris tianity can only be applied under its own condition and laws, and these con ditions are personal to the subject. Spiritual knowledge is very different from mere intellectual apprehension-r lv different but deeper. We at tain to the knowledge of a fact men-( tally by examination, by comparison, by the process of analyzing and defin inr it. but we can only know a thing spiritually by becoming like it. We may know the theory and the philoso phy of music, but we cannot know mu sic until our souls respond to. the ap peal of its enchanting melody. One of the sad defects of our age ljes in the fact that too any men do their thinking in the light of what they, find in the sub-human world and the methods em ployed in Its study. In a hot debate, Huxley told his opponent to dissect a cockroach and learn the truth. But this is not the only road to truth, for the soul of man Is far more valuable than 'the anatomy of a dead cockroach. We cannot learn below roan all that we need to know for the interpretation of the life of man. What cannot be found in the sub-human world does not exist for many men, because they fail to take into account the fact that the laws of the soul are as authentic, as reliable, as uniform as anything which can be found in the Study of non human life. Tfc Reverent Type of Scientist Still it is encouraging to note the reverent attitude with which the sci entist of today is dealing with this spiritual element in life, and how far. science , has journeyed since Huxley. This may be seen from the wordsf of an eminent scientist before the British Association for : the Advancement of Science; "Genuine religion has its roots deep down in the heart of humanity and the reality of things. : It is not surprising".! that . by our methods we f ai ,to grasp ; U,- There" is a principle. p relativity - here; and we are deaf and bliud; there- i fore, to the immanent grandeur around us, unless we have, insight enough to recognize in the woven fabric of ex istence, flowing steadily from the loom of an Infinite progress towards per fection, the ever-growing garment , of a transcendent uoa. xnis betokens a new method of dealing with bid prob lems, and the coming of a new type of mind a kind of scientific spirituality'' which studies the truths of faith with the care and caution of science, while keeping the warmth and glow and power of faith. As for-our part, we must live with open minds, welcoming every ray of light, knowing that all truth confirms a true faith, and that he who seeks the truth Is obeying a noble impulse. We want nothing but the truth and our house of faith must be builded upon the rock of reality to in sure permanency. When we have a reverent, God-fearing science and a type of religion noble, enough to take the last found fact of science and read its meaning in the light of God then we shall realize something of the priv ilege that springs from freedom of the truth and our futile disputations shall coe to an end. Amid the confusions which are springing up all about us, it is well for us to remember the famous saying oi t-ascai: "xne neart has its reasons, which reason knoweth not," and that mighty truths that make us men are the most authentic notes that echt through our mortal years. 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