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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1883)
J’ e. r: ___ CHRISTIAN HERALD." Frank Tandy is expected out this Educational Department. Ml from Mo. We are glad to see the brethren turning their faces’ toward our sunny vales. Here is a All matter intended for this department grand field for work, and we may should be handed or »ent to Prof. W. E. Yates, Monmouth, Oregon. not expect such a bountiful harvest at the first * sowing, for there is The Sciences. much need of summer fallow work As these subjects are taught in before the glorious fruitage of the laborer can “ come rejoicing bring nearly all of our best schools to day, ing in the golden sheaves!” We it may be well to ask a few ques rejoice that much of both kinds of tions concerning the advantages and disaihantaaes of their introduc- . - i • ~ J xxxx^ X»X Bro. A. W. Sanford who will teach near Butte City, has engaged to preach one-fourth of his time in Glen valley, about eighteen miles — west of Colima. Thia ford’s first engagement in the work. He must not expect to have always —a full moon and a high tide, but “withronfidrngand-aLcait u£ hope and Drayer, a readiness and - promptness to duty, and always “ Be instant,” he may expect all will bo well. I well remember many years ago, with others, being f in the company of tire venerable veterans Bros. D. S. Burnett and I Livy Hatchett. We were at Bro. ~ BuUar’a,at Abingdon, and greatly' pleased at the reminiscences of the first years of their ministerial life. r Bro. Hatchett remarked that for his first year’s labor he only received three dollars. Bro. Burnett in reply said that when he first began to — preach he felt like paying the peopTeTofóì^ besides for the first year’s labor he only received a pair of sockB. There is little need of young preachers being discouraged. If we all would often read the trials of the pioneer preachers, it would mollify our feelings, and give a new lustre to every phase of the ques tion. * Promises and threatenings, curs ings and blessings go together. There is no act but carries its fruit with it. The young should be taught that God’s law is strict and curses and blesses. It is God’s law in Nature as well as Revelation. One who eats proper food is nour ished ; one who eats poison must die. Human law protects those who obey .it and sets the alterna tive of punishment before those who disobey. It will not do to re sist the threatenings. They are for our good. They cannot be es caped except by obedience. In that way they can be Scaped, and in that only true liberty and hap piness. 1 X HVI. W • IA1E5, A. DI. cite al! the above mentioned theor V espertine S ociety .—Theyoung ies to a nicety, yet could not solve ladies Literary Society consisting any of the practical applicatidns of — the laws of Mechanics, nor even o’clock lastFndayafternoonr^The keep the common business accounts meeting was called to order and _of life. This is one of the great conducted throughout according to lacks of our higher system of edu- T?arliamentary usage. The members-' cation, and it is decidedly Anti- were very orderly, and gave close American. attention to all the exercises. The I hope to Bee the day when all ladies certainly intend to improve the education of our land will' be their minds. The methods chosen, relieved of this trash and stand on through which they mutually assist one another ---------- . . . . r_ in . self-culture, are in schools. emergencies in the affairs of life. What is intended to be accom H. D. J. plished by this dry rehearsal of ----------------- ---------------------- facts ? to the average student who -X only intends being- an mtGllgent- - Influences of High-School Training. citiZ'.n and a business manorstriCti integrity. Will going over the The assertion that high-school technical tei ms of philosophy, learn- training unfits young people for the ~ihg dfy‘~"pFlBCiptes without any-- oFdTnary'~Kusinessof ttfe/isras com method o?' knowing ”Iiow~ to apply r mon as the educational sopKTsTwW” them to any practical use, ever utters it, and quite as misleading in produce any benefit to after life ? - its tendency?~It is the emit sliib- We must certainly answer no! Yet boleth of all enemies of high-schools we find this method of teaching and of liberal education, but is no nearly all the sciences everywhere more in accord with the truth than prevalent. Just here-’I wilt add“ would be the assertion that efluca-"“ that our tex-books are greatly at tion is the source of all crime. There fault. -1 especially notice this in may be isolated cases , o f. eY£n_.CQl-_ offr 1tvxt-books on N atural philoso— lege gfadcrat5s~of stteh a character phy. as to lend a showing of plausibility Too much ground is gone over to this statement, but this proves and the student expected to know nothing. Show me a high-school a smattering of all the theories of pupil unfitted for business because light, heat, sound, the Molecular of an undue appreciation of his i theory, the Atomic theory and the own acquirements, and I will show Darwinian thgfiry, with the hundred you a score of others so inocent of and one other theories advocated high-school training, as to render by scientific cranks, who try to their cases still more hopeless. If teach to others that of which they a lad is rendered incapable of gain- know nothing, or next to nothing ing a livelihood by receiving high themselves. One person has as school instruction, we may safely much right to form opinions on conclude that the composition of his these questions as another, if he is nature is such as to make him unfit able to think about them in a logi without it; but of course sending a cal manner. young man to a high school will not, I would say let us have less of of itself, make him capable and effi abstract theories in this most inter- cient, any more than getting a man esting subject especially in Natural into a church will, of itself, make Phihophy. Let the student study him good. In either case there what he can get at to an exact truth, must be underlying qualities;or the enlarge the subjects of Statics, and basis for development is wanting. Hydrostatics so as to comprehend Again, if thirty years ago there was all the more practical points, and comparative ignorance in a com let the student take care of these munity, one child^was as well off as abstract theories themself, be will , another; but the children of to-day probably be as able to form opinions live where education is general and as those whose opinions he may of a high standard, and hence they happen to read or to which lie may need more of it than was formerly listen, and, by the way, this would necessary. Progress is the watch take a great deal of lumber out of word of the times, and must con our educational work. I have met tinue. Educational pigmies may numbers of studeuts, intelligent, contest the way, but the cause of bright, able and who had ad other education is too close to the people faculties necessary to make excel- to render the result uncertain.— lent men and women, who could re National Journal of Education. iwiuaimi » «= J 9 -- ------------------------------------- —- r - -'— i— j minutes of the previous meeting and calling up the different orders of business the members on duty well carried out the following pro gramme: Essay, Lillie Powell; Re- citatTonT J-eft n i o -Ru sh n a 11; Life of., Longfellow, Millie Doughty; Essay, Jennie McMullen; Questions ans- wered; Selection from Byron, Vona 4^,. ., Esther. Peek; Goodman; Origin of Evangenline, Maggie Butler; Select Reading, Belle Ebbert; Parody on Poe’s Raven, Mattie Mitchell;. Report of Critic; adjournment. The exer- itable time in the society during the year. 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