CHRISTIAN
♦
California Department.
CONDUCTED BY PROF. J. DURHAM.
J
-matter intetidad for fhir-department
■bould be addressed to Prof. J. Durham, Col
lege City. California.
Brief Notes.
How do you do, Bro. F. D. Hol
man ? Give us your <gT.~
There have been three additions
lately to the congregation at Colusa,
under the able administration of
'
AFrw. J.
S^-7—
Hon. E. A. Bridgeford, Judge of
4 the Superior Court of Colusa Co.
is one of the earnest workers in the
fhureh. The Judge has an inter-
^tingTamily, and TieTs an exani pte
of what a ycung man did do by
living an upright Christian life, and
having an aim in view and never
swerving from the right He is re-
gaided as one of the best judges
the county has ever had, his rulings
being just and equitable.
The
Judge is also a good Sunday-school
worker.
Growlery.” All bitterisms, growls,
grunts and snaps, with such similar
matter could be hashed up to itself,
posted on engendered strifes than
most any thing else, so if editors
must publish this class of matter it
can have a place to itself, and those
who do not wish to read these un
pleasant things can pass to some
other department. When I step
into a city eating house, and while
waiting for my order to be filled, I
q.n prauQnfrxwl will, o Jjuli nf
shiimps; if I don’t want shrimps,
they are pushed aside till the beef
steak and such other palatable food
is brought on. How many times
have tlie readers of,the papers be-
HERALD.
Êducationat Department.
CONDUCTED BY PROF. W. E. YATES, A. M.
should be handed or »ent to Prof. W. E. Yates,
Monmouth, Oregon.
• Gems of Thought. •
Education is the chief defence of
nations.— Barke.
It is better to know much of a
few things than a little of many
things.— Edward Brooks.
The true education of these days
is a choice selection of books.—
Carlyle.
Knowledge and timber should not
9
walking a child learns to walk ; a
boy learns to skate, not by pro
found study of the principles of gra-
vif a tinn-ffTTTbm
bV buek-
ling on his skates and striking out
upon the ice. The secret of it all is
liractice. The only rational method,
of developing the ability to use
English is tb habituate right prac
tices in speaking and writing. A
closer and more intelligent follow
ing of nature’s methods of child
training would greatly enhance the
efficiency jind usefulness uf our
schools
—
Facility in asking questions, con
ducting recitations, and handling
classes are often mistaken for suc
cessful teaching, by many reputable
leathers...- Merely the work is ma-
stance of thrilling interest, and ed.— Holmes.
machine results. The first condi
after reading awhile you find that
Do yon covet learning’s prize?
tion of all successful teaching is
St. Jacob’s 0.1 is the hero of the
Climb her heights and take it.
knowledge of wbat is to be taught ;
‘erre qffw ttmee . Sb if any tbînglïak
VHH OUT fort g n o How;
-
th e second and mostTm pur tali t cOitt'1
doubt about it I look for St.
Life is what we make it.—1* * *
dition as regards the pupil’s mental
Jacob’s Oil and pass it by. We are
sometimes misled by the readings Delightfnl task! to rear the tender development, is the how of impart- _
thought,
of articles in good papers^ but as To teach the young idea how to shoot, ing this what.
One of the principal aims of ed
the editor is supposed to know the r£() pOur the fresh instruction o’er the ucation should be- the giving of
mind, ,
contents of every article he pub
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to flexibility, the “ supplying,” as the
lishes,
he
can
place
each
one
under
Judge William Fraizer is the
horse-trainer would say, of all the
fix
the
proper
head.
If
there
must
be
„Superintendent., of the Sunday-
The generous purpose in the glowing mental powers. The human mind,
-VreaaU—- TKamson
school TnandTb^ayrhaf “iT
• as iUeomes inta ourhajid. aa„ A^ach-„^
where
it
is,
and
we
can
then
the
to say that they have a live school.
ers, is naturally inclined to machine
System is success; if it be not
better
avoid
it.
Moral
?*
“
work, to inertia, to stiffness. If let
The Judge is doing a greater work
success, it approximates so nearly
alone it takes that form, and it ia^
than any other member“ of 'thru*
I don’t know, Bro. Cragie Sharp, to success that it be called success? our business as teachers to see to it
church. To lead a band of inno
whether your theory in regard to —-D. T. Stanley.
that the mind is, to use a popular
cent little hearts along the rose
making drinking unpopular, will
scented paths of a pure life, to point
If we work upon marble, it will phrase, “ limber up.” A variety of
work.
I
fetr
it
will
be
like
steal
studies is needful at one time and
out to fhem eueh ft course of life as
ing, which now is very unpopular, perish ; if we work upon brass, time at all times a little language; ar
will keep them from becoming
but still there is pilfering and petit will efface it; if we rear temples, little history, some natural science,
prisoners before the bar of justice,
laiceny going on in every direc they will crumble into dust; but if some mathematics. What would
or the culprits’ dungeon, are but the
we work upon immortal minds, if
tion
and
almost
every
hour.
I
here
works of an eloquent life. Sister
we imbue them with principles,with we think of a gymnastic teacher
are laws against it which are often
F. is also a splendid worker in the
the just fear of God and love of our who should spend a month in exer
enforced, but if a man should get
Sunday-school.
fellow-men we engrave on those cising one muscle, and then, drop
away with a fortune they say he is
tablets something which will brigh ping that altogether, turn bis whole
shrewd, and occasionally one is
attention for another month to one
As a supplement to the Chris
brought to justice, besides a small ten to all eternity.— Webster.
other muscle.
tian Standard we have received a
per cent, of the minor offences are
Until more teachers know what
Rational
Teaching.
good picture of Bro. D. B. Dungan,
ever brought to their just rewards.
teaching is and what books are for,
Principal of the Bible Department
A great many of the deaths by
In the matter of education many it would be better to omit rules and
of Drake University, Iowa. When
over drinking are reported by the teachers (?) exercise different com definitions from these books and
on our way to California in 1871, physicians under the tender words,
mon sense. In the effort to give thereby throw teachers upon their
we spent several weeks at Platts
“ Softening of the brflln. I think, pupils the ability to speak and own resources. At any rate we
mouth, Neb., visiting family rela
my Bm., it would be about as write good English, they are con would then have better teachers,
tions, Gen. Smith, we paid a visit
reasonable to reduce the revenue, demned to weary months and years because we must have them; defini
to Lincoln, the capital, where Bro. open the gates to destruction a of memorizing grammatical defini
tions would be evolved intelligently
Dungan was then preaching. He
little wider, and thus kill oil the tions, rules, notes, and exceptions, and when needed, and rules would
accompanied us to the University
drinking class as fast as possible. to be applied in .the analysis and be taught and learned as laws, not
then presided over by Pres. A. R
If this last plan would work the parsing of knotty sentences; and as directions. Let the old delusion
Benton. He took us in his drive- country would soon be sobeied finding them still unable to write
that knowledge is power, a counter
out to the State house
and
the
Salt
r-
down. Guess the surest way to a passable letter or composition, feit that has passed correct so long
Springs. The acquaintance was
rear a sober generation is to keep these misguided teachers compel that it is now looked upon as gen
pleasant. He will do good work in temptation out of their way as their pupils to memorize ditiary
uine, die a quick death. Bear in
the University.
' pages of definitions and rules con mind that knowledge may be power,
much as is possible.
cerning “invention,” “style,” “taste,” and only when it is of the proper
Perhaps it would be a good idea
Dr. John Hall, in the seventeenyenis “ rhetorical figures,” etc, with re way.
to open a new department in sever of his American ministry, has misseu sults about the same as before, By
The great need of our educational
but
two
sermons
from
sicknoss.
al of our papers to be called “ The
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