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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1880.
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, 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
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BY VBO». JOUS OÓBON.
There are teachers, and not a few—I | of their works, etc.
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New York, one of the gentlemen pre- j Scranton, Pennsylvania, on J une 23rd
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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)
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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
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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
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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„
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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-
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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
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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.
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(icoi'j'
Ma.
h.
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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-
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upon the principle that education is i
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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
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* 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.
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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
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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.
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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 ?
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