EMPIRE SELF-RAISING FLOUR The West AUSTRALIAN
Rises Above all Others.
RECORD
PERTH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,
The
Hope of the
Future
1913
By "T.O.M." Kalgoorlie
Whither is Young Australia Drifting ?
answer. While we swell the note of self -applause, and indulge in Pintdtildes about our future glory, evils it is a country without a past, but that bespeak the grovelling materialwith a great future. Some nations that will determine ism of our nation, are clamouring to look behind ; Australia looks before. ual accept ideas Badly directed it heaven for reform. No country has greater prospects." his future conduct. strengthens the motives of the feelRace Suicide and Divorce -"Daily News," Aug. 20, 1913. a individual the renders and Our empty cradles tell a cruel tale "Not only are we becoming better ings, direcethically ; passions his of shirked responaibitities, and evince Australians, but our institutions are slave to those moral barriers a callous indifference to the dignity being levelled up to a standard that ted, it raises unthe between interposed precious of a soul redeemed by the we can well be proud of. No State in which are act, and preBlood of Jesus Christ. The unlawful Australia-and, perhaps, no State in healthy idea and the develops It done. being relations which exist between our the British Empire-offers equal facil- vent wrong school children of the opposite sexes ities for the average boy or girl to the conscience." huof purpose true Considering the must convince the utmost pious sceptic acquire possession of the information a planet, this on that is so essential in modern socie- man existence of the Roman citi- that morality is crashing along to description Paul's of a a crisis undreamt of in the most dety as W.A. does."-"Boulder Even- movement for the establishment zens of his time race of muscular giants would be ing Star," Aug. 27, 1913. have God in grading days of Nero's brutal reign. to not liked "They and foster To about obviously ridiculous. We hear so much nowadays they were delivered The scandalous routine of our divorcei of pure intellectuals their heals ; and feathe future greatness of young Aus- develop a race sense, being Ailed courts has become so common a reprobate a to 111, Decrepit absurd. ture of social life as to have stifled tralia, and the ever-expanding possi- would be equally fornication, and malice, enmity, with pretheir owe deceit ; the natural sense of shame within bilities of this free and progressive or vanished nations to the prac- full of envy, murder and affection, our breasts. The morbid sensationland that ati first blush we are led to sent historical position principles. without dissolute, foolish, alism which has evidently grows to imagine, if not actually to credit, tice of such irrational body," is an without fidelity, witlkut mercy." of contemporthat the younger generation, which sound mind in a sound Destroy the likenesd of God in the be a necessary feature its popularity, ary journalism ; the unhealthy texis naturally considered the hope of adage which, despite ture of the alleged hunmourous pathe future, is being girded for life's per ; the agnostic leading article In responsibilities with an efficiency the,' our morning paper ; the vicious litprecludes the idea of failure, and hich in the teeth of every limitaerature that is strewn "thick as leaves in Vallombrosa" in the shelves tion must snake for unqualified sucand on the counters of our bookcess. So enthusiastic are those inshops cannot but make the judicious terested in the education of our youth grieve. Only last week the writer for a sound and practical educationstrolled into a leading goldfields al system, that their zeal, one imhook-store in quest of one of the agines, should he producti mre i f m;r,ad leading works of the day, but while and lasting results. To the casual the place was littered with :he most observer, all looks ,hri41.12. and the a axes infidel productions of all ages, musing. The leader-write:required publication a as conspicmars warm in its praise. The educati post by its absence. Then, there is the himself finds in it a soft, comfortnote of religious indifference which able theme, which sets no restriclike some subtle genius of destructions on his vagrant imagination. tion pervades the social atmosphere The breast of the fond parent swells extinguishing in the hearts of men with pride a hen he realises that his and women the last smouldering emchild is the recipient of educational ber of ('hristianity, must make us favours unheard of when he was a Some folk are beginning to painfully conscious of the fact that boy. our hope of a great nation lusts cal thank heaven that the golden gates very shallow grounds. The welfare of childhood have been barred against of our people must barometrically that callous and conservative remrise or fall according to their fealty nant of borharism-corporal punishor apathy to the dogmas of Chrisment-and that a new era remarkable and tianity. The nation, as a ell as the for its wonderfully precocious upon dawned has children, individual owes a triple allegiance to decorous the Aluniehty. As the Creator of its inthe world. Quite recently the par telligence, it is bound to know Him; lilts in a certain quarter of the Easand the Life." Truth the Way the am "3 as the Creator of its will it is bound tern goldfields clamoured for the Obrist, of Life the of halem's wonderful picture -portrayal to love Him ; and in virtue of the scalp of a State school teacher who 4 Vic's by flail Queen's at "From Manger to Cross" will he shown fact that all its powers come from had the manliness to (10 his duty. inst. 17th Wednesday, Pictures, for two wee ;s commeneng Almighty God, it is bound to obey The arrival of that modern eccentricHis laws. A nation cannot ignore ity-the eugenist-has been hailed in these facts, and securely stand. Yet, many circles with more rejoicings litthan amateur astronomers of fiction not rarely suffers the agonies of mis- human heart, and you shall not have these principles have practically of tle or no place in the programme for its moral decay. are wont to lavish upon some newly wait to long people of our constellation, application. alleged discovered Religious activity is almost as essen- that great majority National Welfare at Stake which may eventually happen to be blood is for ,iodily who are outside the fold of the Caas society to tial for Any nation honestly battling elixir, tholic Church. And as this majority a railway signal. To know is to he to under- life. Deplete the veins of their strong ; and the sooner our youn., true success cannot affordof religion. and speedily will the body become plays a big part in directing the rate the moral necessity society destinies of our race, evil must people are afflicted with the latest child - dry as summer dust. Deprive vagaries of the most up-to-dote intel- To impress upon the receptive is a of the consoling and constructive in- surely conic. virtues Mere Knowledge Not Sufficient lectual epileptic, the better for the mind a respect for civic but it is on- fluences of religion, and ruin will praiseworthy ambition, eninevitably but are to be found in our midst There future of Australia. perhaps, slowly, ly auxiliary to a solid religious educationists who reject reso-called Education System Condemned sue. When 'nen prostitute the in our schools, and see training to ligious From all such notions we most training. Australians us Now, it is for their spiritual nature to to supplement efficaciously edutrue pretend A emphatically dissent. For young Aus- nobility of drifting. pursuit of material whither we are tralia's educational system, judged the exclusive corner -stone of a great such training by systems of naturalthe is of cation indulgence sole the to and the emaedmled ism which have succumbed to by its results, not by its possibili- ends, appetites, they risk the People. Without religion of thousands experiment of peothe pressure of ties, stands already condemned. And the sensual hearts possibility of maintaining for deep in the living notheir to According a ago. years plays by its educational system, we under- moral that It the progressive pres- ple-so embedded and pushstand the collective influences which a long period dominant part in determining the tions, to build' up a virile of their race. There is in world tige plastic, the 'on bear to brought may call ful race, it is expedient to invest so are lives-you their of conduct striking more no perhaps, impressionable child-mind as to make history; by any name you our school children with purely naof this unhappy fact than the present system reasonably call tural means to that end. Maintainit accept ideas that will more or less illustration cannot you but wish, Empire. Roman the the fate of determine its future conduct. is as far su- ing that knowledge is power, they soul The education. it elaborate most the Equipped with is above aver that to reveal to our boys and The lasting welfare of society funheaven as body the ; to perior civilisation material damentally depends upon the ratio- arts of a high and defended by a pow- earth. Deprived of a rational scul, girls the secrets of sex -physiology strengthened or- would be to place under their control nal calibre of the individuals that ; the known world min- the body is a poor and pitiful constitute it. Based upon a sound erful army its luxury ; proficient to ganism. As Shakespeare says : ' It a slashing weapon against the onThey ethical system, society will he un- istering to degree in the kindred do- is the mind that makes the body slaught of moral degeneracy. with overlook at the outset the duplex nathen, doubtedly sound. And no ethical sys- an eminent body, instal the To elerich." and mains of philosophic thought pride of place ture of knowledge; and forget that tem can he considered sound which literary expression so 'ouch its stormy passions in very aim of the knowledge of good is less potent perennially excludes the teachings of gance of the miss he to would the is that its literary le..acy kno w contract than the human to revealed religion from its Ira - so mis-direct to and life, the of human as a ell as the despair ledge of evil is strong to desindictment gramme. The contrary is equally evi- model the is that And effort. uniof our modern dent. A quotation from the writings choicest intellects for the future of troy. Nor do they reckon that it is versities-yet. unfold the records of those responsible may to an evil and a bitter thing to glut of Dr. Paul Dubois will best illusbe called Australia will young their moral history, and you trate my contention
"It may be said of Australia that
"Education is entirely founded upon the idea of determination. Its object always is to tima.%e th..m indi.i1
blush for the pitiful ambition of modern naturalism to readjust the social balance, It the savage fury of Northern Europe had never launched itself against Route, her own unwieldy corruption were a sufficient force to drag her to the dust. The effeminacy and sensuality acquired by her legions in the luxurious East, unnerved her sturdy manhood, and thus, her victories cost her more than a thousand defeats. Epicurean philosophy so preyed upon her morality that she became hat "a gilded halo Hear St. hovering round decay."
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