American messenger . SCHOOLS OUT BY REV. DAVID JAMES BURRELL, , Pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church, New York City PR. DAVID J. LXE is the month of Com-mencements. Boys and girlsare leaving the publicschools with proud and happyhearts. The graduates of ourcolleges and universities aresaying goodby to the campusand going out into life with diplomas in have been drinking at the Pierian springof knowledge; and now the question that con-fronts them is: What Will They Do With It? For knowledge of itself is a vain thing. Ithas value only for what it will do. In thisr
American messenger . SCHOOLS OUT BY REV. DAVID JAMES BURRELL, , Pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church, New York City PR. DAVID J. LXE is the month of Com-mencements. Boys and girlsare leaving the publicschools with proud and happyhearts. The graduates of ourcolleges and universities aresaying goodby to the campusand going out into life with diplomas in have been drinking at the Pierian springof knowledge; and now the question that con-fronts them is: What Will They Do With It? For knowledge of itself is a vain thing. Ithas value only for what it will do. In thisrespect it is precisely like gold, which storedaway in a vault, is no better than iron must be molten, minted and stamped with theimage and superscription of the King and putinto circulation so that it may go about doinggood, or else one might as well not have it. There is nothing finer in literature thanMiltons eulogy of Truth: Upon her head she wears a crown of stars,Through which her orient hair waves to her which believing mortals hold her fastAnd in those golden cords are carried evenTill with her breath she blows them u
Size: 1600px × 1562px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, bookida, booksubjectchristianity
