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Excerpt from Popular Education: An Address Before the Luzerne County Teachers' Association, Delivered in Pittston, Friday, November 20, 1857
There are few subjects which have so strong a claim upon our attention as that of popular education. There is hardly a class, or an individual of any class, that. It does not concern. My own personal religious duty, growing out of my allegiance to the Sove reign Creator, and my own eternal destiny as declared in that revelation which he has been pleased to make through his Son, do indeed challenge my earliest thoughts. But when I come to con sider them I find that they are not isolated. While on the one hand I am dealt with as the only being in existence, and my duty to God is independent of all other beings in the universe, I find on the other hand I cannot go far without seeing my relation to other beings around me, and consequent duties growing out of this rela tion. I may not; say as a Christian, thatli will look out for my own interest, and regard the work of my own salvation alone nor as a Christian minister that I will confine my attention to my own parish or my church at large; for I soon find it to be a principle of that religion which I have professed, that no' man liveth unto himself and no man dieth unto himself that we are all members one of another that if one member suffer all the members suffer with it; and I am instructed by the teaching and example of Him whom I call Master, that I am not to ask the question Who is my neighbor? In such a spirit as to deny my responsibility to wards others beyond the circle of my kindred, my neighborhood, my church, or my nation. Moreover, that same Master teaches me that there are things /to be rendered unto Caesar as well as unto God, and that my duty to God comprehends every other duty to be discharged to my fellow-men, and that all these duties have their sanctions and directions in His own holy word. This is my own apology, if apology there need be, for listening to the invitaj tion which has been extended tb me, and appearing before this audience to address them upon the subject of popular education.
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