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À I j “• i J* fr •% PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1880. 2 =3= , Select Reading. • rtThe Welsh National Eisteddfod no‘more willingly intrust my child ed off upon them in the shape of guid for which preparations have been • es and helps to a better understanding than I could intrust lamBs to wolves. —At a public gathering lately in j going on for a year past, was- held at • • BY VBO». JOUS OÓBON. There are teachers, and not a few—I | of their works, etc. _ ■ New York, one of the gentlemen pre- j Scranton, Pennsylvania, on J une 23rd > This shabby stuff’ claims to present say it with shame — whose every This question admits of a variety of sent was called upon for a "speech, and and 24th. This consists of a musical the whole subject of education and answers, determined largely by the breath poisons, and whose every a£- i this is how he responded: “ Gentlemen and literary tournament (in which teaching—a subject requiring .a life kind of education intended. It is gen tion lies. Is it strange that children an ’ women:—I ain’t no speecher. about a thousand persons took part) -# long study, under circumstances the erally supposed, however, that the ed also learn to lie I Strange if they Moren twenty years back I came here for prices aggregating $1200. The most favorable—in a few pages of ucation for which the largest sum of didn’t. Is it mysterious that they g<? a poor idiot boy, and npw what are I?” chief prize—was contested for squibs and ¡«latitudes, without the astray even from birth ? What is to money is paid, or means expended is —Without earnestness no man is by a dozen choirs from various parts least attempt at system 01 science. It the most costly. Let us see how this hinder them ? Wo place them at a ever great or does really great things. of the State, composed mostly of is absolutely discouraging. As though is. If what we paid for a thing deter frightful disadvantage, and then ex He may be the cleverest of men —ha Welsh miners, who are remarkable for * the whole preparation-of a teaeher lay pect them to conquer. We place therii mined its value, then it- were easy to may be brilliant, enter taining, popular; their choral singing. The Welsh are in the answer to a few silly questions, x come at the truth in the matter. . But at the very door of the den of iniquity but he will want weight. No soul devoted to mjisic, and cultivate their that a few silly authors (thank the in affairs ofc this sort; what a thing and then.expect them to escape un moving picture was ever painted that love for it in their Eisteddfodau, w;hich Jjortfc there are no more of them !) have costs in money, or labor* or any other harmed. We even starve them intel had not in it, depths of shadows. they trace back to the sixth century. put forth and puffed as the only nec; lectually, socially, and morally in their •commodity, is only one, and in some —Sometimes littlg vexations and I The musical contest awakened uruch essary preparation of teaching. • These . re • instances, one of the less important hours of greatest need, and then ex petty cares will fret the mind and enthusiasm among an audience oi not only cheapen the teacher’s mind pose them to the questionable supplies factors in'»the estimate of cost. drive out all tranquility. . Then it is something like five thousand persons. as to its furniture, but actually stand If it were a matter of mere value, of a burglar or ’ft villian. Verily at t|iat larger views are needed, deeper : The first prize was awarded to the in the way' of a more’ thorough and this rate, we shall perpetuate the doc as men are accustomed* \to estimate thoughts, higher ideals, broader out Choral SocKty of Hyde Park and th< consistent preparation. They satisfy looks. We come back to our daily 1 second to the Wilkesbarre Choir. The values, the result could the more read trine of total depravity to all time and the indolent, and aid securing a round of duties and cares refreshed proceeds of the Eisteddfod will be ily be preached: but even then,• it eternity. There are teachers that I would net certificate. Humbug arid nonsense and calmed after dwelling on higher ■ applied by the Welsh Philosophical, would often.happen that the most suffer eveli to give lessons in aiithine- sedms to possess superior advantages things, and we are surprised we could- Society to the founding of a -free -costly in money, etc , wonld be by far ; tic or geography to my boy, lest he for propagating thgmselves^ for a have been overcome by what is com library in Hyde Park.—-//«»yerV the most servicable, and hence, cheap; taint him with the prison, bortfe on hundred copifs of this trash are sold cst in the long run. But our question paratively a triHing thing. Wechlg. the pinions of thought, from a’corrupt to one of genuinfe merit. • Take such a —Aim at perfection in 'everything, . has another meaning. It looks more —That a husband should forcibly mind. To teach is to eommune, mind work as “ Barnard's'American Journal to the, outcome of education than to I thouglr in most things it is unattain- thrust his innocent and clinging wife with mind, heart with heart; and .■« of Education,” the completest work on any inert ly .intrinsic • r extreme pres j able ; for they who aim at it and'per from the deck of a vessel, seems cruel 1 thought is such a living thingy and education perhaps ever published, and severe will come much nearer to it and inexcusable. But when the cure ent value. . —— such a. potential thing, that its very j how riiany teachers know anything * It is not, therefore, our purpose to than those whose laziness and des 1 tain is still farther drawn aside, and ‘ - about it ?. How 'many own a single ‘ entrance into the mind, notjmly “giv- criticise expensive outlays in the way pondency make them give it up. as we see the advancing Hames and the eth tight,” but it also creates a growth volume rtf it ? Notone in five hundred of money though' in a general , a thing unattainable. j swiftly sinking hull, and the raft wait- or a thousand. This argués" a low of sonifLScrt, either of good or bad. * —Do not be older in your feelings ling below the gunwale, the whole as ought to cost what it is worth, neither À teaching that, taints is toó dear state of professional pridè and prepar to urge extravagant provisions in than you are in fact. Therefore never pect of the case is changed ; and, if ' at any price, or at no price. Its cost ation. But this superficially is—pan _ books, apparatus, or travtj, etc , or withdraw your interest from life. SCej- we have prejudged it, we have learned I is the-sacrifice of many lives of'useful- dered to, and encouraged by a class of eyen in. teachers or tuition. All these what is going on. It is a good thing a lesson of modest waiting. Bnt not xneSs. Its wrecks strew the entire institutions recently sprung into exis may be rendered comparatively value- for a man to set his affection«' on on the Narragansett alone do such plain of human history ; and its agents tence in Ohio, and adjoining states, * less in virtue of the considerations things above, and to have investments tTring occur, but in thuniverse of have opened wide the gates of evil to whose cheif merits (?) are cheapness connected with this matter. But we in Heaven. Thera is a time for these God, ^and simitar judgments ‘bead to flood the world with woe. These are d^snd-crbokedneaa—7--—•------ •*"’ ' Tto wish, in this connection'to call at-’ things;, but they are not inconsistent be modified.- And many a dear spouse the cheap teachers. 'The. country is JFAere is the enemi.yJ' This'the most tention to a*"’practice becoming to*ti with the knowledge ol what is.-taking . of (5hrist, who has clung and cried and x overrun by then!. Their work is not | difficult questionAo answer. Ours is a prevalent among our American people * place below. Men should let the heart thought hard thoughts when His hand only worthless, but absolujgjy damag .free country, which means (to some) to get a thing for less than its real val of the times brood upon their hearts. was heavy and His -pressure pushing ing. It is withering the fair fields of flk* to make just as big fools of them ue. This lea<U-mq,st persons to in —An Oxford ■ student; being ex her inexorably from her footing in’the- promise. Their acquisitions are usu selves as possible, provided they can dulge in a species of speculation, or to amined in sat-red history, was asked, i ally limited to the - territory of the1 inline money by it ; free to take ad *.wk„ ,,f l;a'>’eh.1nedtoacknoweledge seek the cheapest article in’the mar- -Who was the first King of the that touch as a truer and tenderer one three Rs, with perhaps a-taint bor vantage of the necessities ahd.ignor- . ket, not weighing the probable chances dering on the sides—a little geography ! 1 rances of the holiest and unwary, pro- Jews?" At a venturb he replied, than that-which placetL.lhe wedding r- —— that^amh„ articles arc .usually., must,!? a littki grammar, and how and then a vided they can d<5 it under some spe " ' —ttierr, Cncoufaged by the rjng UpOn her hand or thelnidal ki-s expensive in the end / a as»nt of the examiner, completed th*' jjMgj 1, r brow. < 'hn >-i ,r I uh S i j- u- * This tendency has probably had] tittle algebra. ■ Beyond, this their un- cious guise of of education; - and answei a*v follows, “ Saul of 1 ursus, ( much to do-in cheapening education, tutored minds/have never been taught hence the great difficulty of'correcting : sometimes called 1’a.ul. —A man out West who had been - lessening its value, rather than its to stray. No literature, no history, - this enormity. — -Age/is not all decaj . it i- th*. unfortunate as to lose five excellent Whàt the State needs, however, is a 1 cost. But education is one *j¿ th'-e no idea of the applications of the sci- ; ripening, the swelling ot t ll '' 1 11 . wives, desired to erect'a head-stone vigorous system of normal schobj in things!’ hose value cannot t be A- ences to the arts, no sympathy with ] within, tb it wither- an 1 bur-t- the_ ( . r C(,nlm* morating^er virtues struction, under the supervissioh' of a dueed without damage. The gonuirle general progress ami social reforms. husk. — (icoi'j' Ma. h. 1 1 but has been deterred By nfe expense. Their professional stock, of ideas can ! stated Board of Education, composed thing is the only article, that — s a id tu h a v it maioaled other day a happy thought struck ___ * shoulddXT "allowed to remain in tfieTte formulated into an “ order ” of parser only twice; once at the faith of the and unquestioned merit, and whose- market. Many people, however, go ing a few ‘‘ rules ” for working out time at the un- lijm.-- , , The . five . wives were buried . side duties should be to pass upon the centurion, the other problems, ami -possibly for spelling ' by side ’ in ’ the " same graveyard. H* 1 ri- - 1 upon the principle that education is i 111.. qualifications of teachers ; otid a State beliet of the people of Ins own city.— accordingly had the < 'hristian name<f education, no matser whence or how it and Hogging. That anything beyond 1 B. North. comes That arithmetic is arithmetic this should demand theil4 attention, ore Superintendent—not aTmore Commis- 1 —Men need wives who are in»love each engraved on a small stone— . sioner -whose duties to the schools of . and grammar is grammar, etc , with should be’ called upon to acquaint with them- Simple tolerance is not j “ Emma," " Jane,” “Mary,” lMaigaret." the State should themselves with the current ideas of __ be^similar to those of “Elizabeth"—a hand cut on each* out regard'to the means by which ob- the profession. has never yet found a a City Superintendent to his system enough to'sCai I the strain of married | stone pointing to a large stone in the tained. These and ..................... kindred im life; and to main’ where you cannot | 1 center of the lot; and under each hand - • * This is a mistaken idea: and 1 it lodgement with them. Not one in of - schools. freely love is to commit an act of dis ministers to the ruin of many minds fifty of this class of teachers ever takes’ provements should be introduced into honesty and injustice.- ' the words, “ For epitaph see large The source of knowledge is about as or reads an educational paper. Not our State and National systems of ■—Seek pleasures whenever youcarT ...atoned---- ----- -----—------- ——— ' important^ thing to be considered as 1 one in one hundred owns a single schools ; for as long as so great a want —When Dr. Johnson had completed consistently do so. N o, enjoyment, the knowledge itself, or the education j book on teaching, except, perhaps the as the preparation of teachers for the his dictionary, the delay of which had schools of a State, is left to the preca however inconsiderable, is confined to learned by its acquisition. ' " Do men : epost worthless kind. the present moment. *A man is the quite exhausted the patience of Miller, . gather grapes of thorns or figs of this 1 These are cheap teachers indeed ’ rious preparation likely to be secured happier for life froiw-having once made the bookseller, the latter acknowledged tles ?” Can an evil tree bring forth They can afford to teach cheap. Thdir j from a voluntary system, siibject to an agreeable tour or enjoyed any-con the receipt of the last sheet in the goo<ljj;yit ? “ Can the same fountain owri acquirements are of the cheapest all the abuses arising from unscrupu siderable interval of innocent pleasure. following terms: “Andrew Miller grade; but their teaching is very cost lous com petion, just so long we shall send forth sweet water and bitter ?” T he G ood A lready ¡iAvtir.-^* We sends his compliments to Mr. Samuel * Thoughts born of sin or from a cor ly to the ¡»eople of this country. It have incompetency and waste. ■ need not ask,” says the Rev. F. W. Johnson, with the money for the last There are other points of Jcindrcd rupt heart, are impure from corrupt costh this nation more than all her Robertson, "'will-the, true, pure, sheet of the copy of the dictionary, heart, are impure from contact, how army and navy; more than all her interest, which if. carefully provided loving, holy man be saved ? for he is and thanks God he has done with ever innocent they may seem. There legislatures, ami Congress thrown in ; and guarded^ would not only relieve saved; he has heaven; it is in him him.” To this uncourteous intimation is a subtle poison lurking in every more than all her jails and penitenta- us of this abuse, but would go far to now. He has a part of his inheritance the doctor replied—“ S*nuel Johnson thing- evil, an i everything associated ries, which it feeds and fills. No one wards bringing up our country schools now, and he is soon to j»o--*ess the returns his compliments to Mr. An therewith. Hence thoughts from an can estimate the ¡«ossible good sup to a point of perfection, equalling if whole.” A drew Miller, and is very glad to find evil heart are dangerous, because of pressed, or the possible evil evoked by not excelling the graded schools in (as he does by his note) that Andrew — A weak mind is like a microscopy: fornici association. -Knowledge itwelf this kind of teaching. It is costing our townsand cities.— N. Y. School Millar has the grace to thank God for which magnifies trifling things, but may convey a deadly, poison, if con-, the best brain of,the best men and wo Journal. anything. ” ——---- ---------- •- can not receive great ones. — Chcutev- veyed through certain unhealthy men of this lamb It is robbing the Looking round on the noisy fidd. * . — It is believed that the oldest chjpineK <w4f it is filtered through a country and its institutions of their inanity of the world, words with little 1 •—Confidence and fear are almost rosebush in the world is one which is mind tainted with infidelity, corrupt- j inheritance and the ¡reople—of their meaning, actions with little worth, one thing rather than two, when we trained upon one side of the Cathedral best' rights ; and whit renders this —ed by vice, or blasted by debasing one loves to reflect on the great Em speak of God. He that fears most; ' of Hildesheim in Germany. The root evil doubly damaging no one seems to passions,. it withers and jseortches pire of Silence. The noble silent men trusts most*. He that trusts most I huinan souls, as the- feverrfreigl'ted ' regard it as a very serious evil. Thou- ! scattered here and there each in his fears most. To none is death so little is buried under the crypt below the choir. The stem is a foot thick, and Sirocco blasts the fair fields of vegeta ysands and tens of thousands,of just- department; silently thinking,silently of a change as to those whose life has half a dozen branches nearly cover the . such teachers as those above described, j tion over which it sometimes sweeps. working, whom no morning newspajicr been one long confidence in God. eastern side of the church, bearing ( are to-day directing, or rather misdi Oh, there be teaclfSVs that 1 have makes mention of! They are the salt .- —In the- present day there is no countless flowers in summCK Its age recting the fiiinds, hearts and charac- : seen teach, and heard others praise, of the earth. A country that has none fixed time for sleep. The world roars and that highly—n<»t to spSik it pro ters of the boys and girls of these ’ or few of these is in a bad way. Like around us like a torrent of-events. is unknown, but documents exist that ■> fanely—that, neither having the life United States; and few and faint"" a forest which has no roots; "which Everything is rapid; and we are prove that the Bishop Hesno nearly a thousand years ago, protected it by • against have been the voices raised of Christian, pagan or man, have so has all turned into leaves and boughs;' whirled with velocity in the midst of stone roof, which is still extant. dishonered their holy calling, and so this unequaled waste which must soon wither and be no a vortex as vast as it js incessant. teachers • Who m to blame ! The Nor shonld ws-be ever letting defaced the fair page of infancy, that I forest. Woe for us if we had nothing Repose there is non<f; and instead of wholly. themselves, in part, but not Hympethy beftnldle sense, " have thought that some------cheap nor Nor «gain be oanght forgotting There is a class of influences at work but what we can show, or «¡»eak. sleeping on a pillow of down, we stand mal, or some----- county board had Tbst throughout ttfe world's expense- among our teachers, th&Q' under the Silence, the great Empire of Silence, continually on the tiptoe of ex|>ecta- made teachers and notz made them Those who most onr-fifty waken higher than the stars ; deejier than the tion, awaiting the coming op of to guise of doing good is doing them in- ’•d well, they abused humanity so abom- For their lack of wit or grace, ! calculable mischief. I allude, to the kingdoms of death ! It alone is great; morrow, big as it were with the doohi Wonld not happily mistaken, jnably. —e*— —•— t There are teachers to whom I ould I cheap trash—books and papers—palm-1 all else is small — Carlyle. *1 of some great hereafter. Pat themselves in oar place. What Education Coats Moat ? « e 4 r ✓ I I A » *. 0 ' • t —« 1 f
