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- THE CIIEMAWA AMERICAN
By Webster Hudson; sixth grade.
We all had the pleasure , of listening
to the address delivered hy Mr. Forbes,
Sunday evening. From the subject we
learned that by sticking to one thing
this means "whatever undertaking we
. attempt to perform just make ourselves
a' master. We often hear many of the
students complaining about that they
have to work, and perhaps they discov
ered their mistake and wrong idea of
what they should do. Other, students,
however, are more intelligent and tnose
are the ones that listen closely to anyone
who gives advices to us. It pays to be
attentive, than to just fool around with
out giving attention to the speaker. And
we often hear,' "Do not try to kill
yourself by work," and others, "What
.,do we get for working?" Ah! my friends,
-5i)ur idea is wrong, we are here ,for the
purpose of learning a trade and to ob
tain an' education. By working at a
' trade we can learn it .witjh less difficulty,
and in acquiring , an education we can
accomplish our course with less perplex
ty by studying avid thinking of one
thing. Nothing in this busy wide
world can be obtained by a person
who has not tried to do anything, but
just think what Ik will do and then for
get and lost his vision. This is no way
to do if we want 'to be somebody in
this busy world. If ve want, to ire
pare for anything, what shonld we do?
What' good in the ..world will we
amount to" if we neglect i' make our
preparation while we have a clinn.'e? So
let us, boys and girls, get read)' to face
the world and prepare for our future
lives and think of one thing that is
good for us.
The Education o f Boys
A philospher has said that true educa
tion for boys "is to teach them what they
ought to know when they become men."
What is it they ought to know then?
. First to be true, to be genuine. No
education is worth anything that does
not include this. , A man had better not
know how to read, he had better
never learn- a letter in the alphabet, and
be true and genuine in action, rather
than being learned in all sciences and
nguages to be at the same time false
in heart and' counterfeit in life. Above
all things, teach them that truth is more
, than riches, more than earthly power or
position. .
Second To be pure in thought, lan
guage, life pure in mind and body. An
impure man1 young or old, poisoning
th(i society where he lives with smutty
stories and impure example, is a moral
ulcer, who ought to be treated as the
leper of . od( who were banished from
society and compelled to cry "unclean!"
a warning tosave others from pestilence.
Third To be self-reliant and self
helpful even from early, childhood; to
be industrious always, and self-supporting
at the earliest proper age. ! Teach
them that all honest work is honorable,
and that an idle, useless life dependent
on oth'er,, is a disgrace. When a boy
has learned all these three things, when
lw-has made these . ideas a part of his
hciiv, however young he may-be, how
ever poor, however rich, he1 Was5 learned
some of the most important ' things he
ought to know when he becomes a man.
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