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9 <#' PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1881. V I utility. So in developing man and An Adtlress to the Teachers’ In com pared with those he ia required opment of the powers of the individu- der to keep them alive physically, womanhood from the raw material of and call them men and women when and expected to perform. To render al, physical, mental and moral. The stitute òt | Jefferson Co., Iowa. the troward gentle, the recklees con- principle before ua demands that both they attain so many years of age and infancy and childh<xjd, there are many BY S. H. ttlBtUX. influences brought to bear and change» siderete, to dignify the degraded, and matter and method be consistant with ' pounds in weight. Such a living for a husband or wife or the practicff^ effected, and too often at the first Ladies and Gentlemen : spiritualize the clod, such are among that end. The development required duties of life, is in many respects less there are careless, unskillful hands Without any special apology on the arduous requirements of the school is not only threefold but also sym valuable xhan the wire frames on 1 dealing with it; but remember the my pait vour attention will be direct teachers' sphere and calling. That metrical. We may select the proper which the merchants exhibit ready school teacheT« are in the responsible ed chiefly to three important things they should often fail is inevitable ; I matter for out purpose, and fail in our made.suits. The wire skeleton would place where shape, temper and polish intimately connected with the work 1 the wonder is that they should ever method ; or we may be correct in kind be in many ways a safer and cheaper ¡are stamped upon the articles that- of your dignified calling as school I succeed. and fail in quantity. This rule will companion, because it would not I the future will demand —true men methodology . | be referred to again, we therefore pass i teachers, a calling, when properly ap i — and for such there drink bad whisky, and consume your ! and women- preciated and prosecuted, places you II. More do you teach ? Some one now to another principle. is always room. From the na- , 4. Only one thing should be taught labor; nor take your life, and as for among the benefactors of your genera has very aptly said : “ He who fixes ture and object of your work let tion, and should command the ad upon false principles treads upon in- ■ at one time. It is not meant by this clothing it would never become demo us turn to you, “ What manner miration and respect of those whorl firm ground) and so sinks ; and he [ that only one study should be pursued cratic enough to “ hurrah for a follow after you in the ch of time who fails in his deductions from right in any given school term; but-that change.” We find again that many of persons ought you to be ?” In and in the drama of life. ■> principles stumbles upon firm ground, 1 there should be..-a^ single or superior parents fail because they single out ! thought, in holy conversation in wis 1. Gur first thought leacjs us be and so falls.” Let u« now state and object or point in a lesson, and aft •some profession or calling for which dom, in watchfulness and in godly ex — yond you, as teachers, and fixes our briefly notice a few recognized general else should be utilized as means to the boy has no capacity and ample 1 - As Whittier says: ‘ that end. A plurality of things pre- think to gain success in educating attention. and interest, upon those principles. * 1.. Thé method of nature is to be [ sented to the mind at once , in too him for this one thing. They " An angle of patience sent calm, whom you are expected to instruct— I the boys and girls of to-day. They taken as the archetype of all methods. raoid succession tends only to confuse keep them on the farm ten months Onr feverish brow with cooling palm, To lay the storm of hope and fear are found in almost every home. They This principle is at once fundamental it. The mind is so constituted that it in the year to make a fanner, And reconcile life's smMe and tear, are in* the shops and stores, the "’gar and comprehensive. Every where in must have time for attention to each or in the shop to make a mechanic, The'throbs of- wonder pride to still dens and fields, the groves and forests, God's universe everything is governed thing separately. This varies accord tec., others, think' of some one pro And make our own onr Father's will." the streets and lanes, of the country. by Supreme and indexible law. All ing to the nature of the things and fession, and suppose all the world was In conclusion.then, I commend you made for this one thing—a teacher, a all as teachers to him in whom are Their cheerful faces are to be seen on subjects in the realm of nature must capacity of the mind, 5. Instruction should proceed from pdet, a preacher, a lawyer, or at least every corner. Their feet patter in the act in harmony with her appoint hid all the treasures of wisdom and the known to the unknown, from the a doctor, yes, a doctor. “ The boy is noise of the busy streets, and their ments and law, or suffer the conse | prudence, the leader of all bodies, the- willing hearts and hands join in a quences of every infraction of those simple-to the coniplex, from’the con rushed into college, pitchforked teacher of all teachers, the ruler of alt good share of the toiles ‘and burdens laws. The process of mental or moral crete to the abstract: from analysis to through a course of Greek and Latin ; nations, and Savior of men—Jesus of of life. They play and'swing or read I development and growth is not ex i synthesis. The term instruction is crammed for examination, buys a de- Nazareth. Hear and obey him, and and sing ; and although af times they empt from her rigid requirements. not to be understood here in. its strict ploma for so much money, and goes Jet us all hope that the great work in , are truant and cause shame and sor Nature endowes the child with meaning (instructure to build in).. out with his blushing honors thick which-you occupy so important a po row, yet they are, in ¡»art, the sun physical, mental and moral powers, The primary meaning of this term can upon his empty head, to kill people sition, will go onward and upward till shine of the present, and the only undeveloped and feeble at first. These not be applied to the process of educa scientifically', by pealing out drugs of all-the influence from the eradle to — powers or germs in tjjechild are only tion. There is no such thing as which he knows little, for bodily de the grave may lie in having with his - hope of the future. » • a) Our boys, and girls of to-day possibilities ; but nature also fur “.building in” in the educative pro ceases, of which he knows less, and divine will and lilt up dur racd to that were the cradled infants of yesterday, nishesdhat by which- they are to be cess. This principle is correct be this he does till his incapacity is dis eminence where, just starting on their journey up the developed and strengthened, and .fixes cause it announces nature’s method. covered, and then he starves or steals.” “ No longer hosts encountering hosts, hill ’of time. Then mother was the laws, only by the strict obedience of Learning, as a mental process may be Little better is the teacher who Shall crowds of sl^jii deplore ; chief teacher, with father, and some which m th£_jaipployment of means said in common terms-to- consist of studies just enough to get a certificate They’ll hang the trumpet in the hall, times John and Mary as a kind of appointed, these powers can die the following movements: curiosity by the charity of the county school And study war no more,”— assistants. It 'is too often the case brought to their highest degreç of (interest), attention, observation, ex- superintendent, and -then teaches a And finally, to the immortal, joys of that the chief instructor in that case •perfection. For every thing nature amination^discrimination, abstraction, school with no higher'object than to heaven. —is-imry poorly qualified for her task ; has a time, an o der and a method generalization and classification. Our put in the time and draw his salary. and her first assistant—tile husband which are best adapted to the peculiar knowledge may be said to consist of Likewise that citizen who neglects to What If You Don't Like It ? —-falls so fai below her that you can constitution of that thing ; and she is differences and similarities. The furnish the schoolhouse with furni exhaust the percentage table without imperative in her demands for a uni mind apprehends new truths only ture, convenience and comfort, and The ¿V. Y. Independent speaks thus finding or disturbing his diminutive form observance of her plan. By a when they are brought into relation the much needed aparatus, and wages plainly to those who find fault with sphere.. But the mother’s instructive natural method, then, is meant one with those already known, so that the for a true and competent teacher to the work of revising the New Testi**—/'"’ nature, with whatever culture she that W4n perfect harmony with the new may be compared with the old. aid the children up the rugged hills of ment : “ The great mass of complaints may possess, turns continually toward inate constitution of things. Nature The mind can not pass from a known progress, to an honorable fame and against the new Revision reduce them her darling babe ; for it she toils and suggest in unmistakable terms the truth to an unknown that has abso practical success. The potent cause of selves to this; I don’t like it; it does cares with a fond desire and expecta time and order of the development lutely no relation to the known. Each the present energetic progress, solidity not please me ; it disagrees with my tion that it will be the boy or girl oT of the powers of the mind, and the simple truth of a new subject is un and unity of our people, is said to be taste and opinions ; the old version the future. The days of infancy are matter to be used, and the method to known, till compared by the learner1 because the State has been dotted conveyed a pleasanter or a deeper as short as they ar§ precious an<T be employed. Let •’bitn who would with what hlTaTready knows. If we over with school houses, so may Tt sense ; in fact, 1 don’t like it. tender, yet how earnestly and con learn the true educative process go to present a couqplex truth to begin with ever be, and may every citizen, teacher But what if you don't like it ? what stantly are the means employed to nature with these questions : When ? the mind is only confused thereby ; and child ever realize that the quality difference does that make ? The rush it from infancy to boy and girl In what order ? By what means ? but beginning with the siipple each should keep step with the quantity. Bible was not written to please you,, hood ; and for a multitude of reasons, and How ? and then diligently heed single truth learned assists-.in the May our estimate of true man and but to instruct you. The business of analysis of the complex. Every mind womanhood become such as the divine both just and unjust, all are made to her reply. the revisers was not to bring out a 2. The ultimate object of the study must make its own abstractions and pattern requires; and then may the rejoice in the day when it is placed translation that should be accommo before you, the object of your care, should always be kept in view. When generalizations, however long may be efforts of parents, teachats, of* church dated to your likings, but one that love and instruction as school teach ever and wherever the teacher disre the time required. Generalization is and state count it as the end of all should be accommodated to God’s gards this principle we have truly the the summing up of the knowledge, not study, the consumation of all efforts, ers. Greek text. If it suitably translates ‘ (6) You now begin to see the blind attempting to lead the blind. the beginning. In the acquisation of to work all together, ever looking to the Greek text, their work is-properly r evidence of past neglect of the family He is like a captain of a vessel who knowledge the mind passes from anal the great end of educating and de done and that is an end of it. It may on the one hand and the methodless would put out to sea without compass ysis to synthesis, and the instruction veloping the full capacity of every not suit you ; but why should it ? training on the other. The sins of and without any port in view as a should be such as will give it this op child into the highest degree of true Paul’s beautiful hymn in praise of omission and commission of parents destination. The objects of a study portunity. The teacher may synthe man and womanhood. We may do charity, as given in our old English are clearly inscribed upon the child, must be considered before the study size, but the pupil, if he gains knowl lets, but we cannot do more. We version, may seem to you much more to be detected and analyzed by the can be rationally recommended to the edge, must analyze. I have read the should ever remember that any and* beautiful than Paul’s Greek hymn in true teacher as by no one else, and pupil ; and those objects must cer statement t^iat “ every synthesis which all influence which withholds means praise of love ; butthat question was tainly determine the method of teach has not been preceded by analysis is or stands in the way of this grand perhaps to® for the first time. not before the revisers. Their busi (c) But the true teachers, while ing the subject in order that the re- only an imagination.” Sir Wm Ham objects or in any way cripples and ness was not to select the most beau condemning the parents as they may, suits for which the study is persued ilton says, " Synthesis without previ neutralizes the means'to this end is a tiful ideas, but discover Paul's ideas and pitying the child, as they should, may be secured. The object or end ous analysis is baseless ; for synthesis fraud and an imposition upon the pre and put them into English. must realize that it does no good. The of a study should decide the method receives from analysis the elements sent, and a robber and murderer upon There is just one question for you which it recomposes.” . past work is done and can^not be un to be used in teaching it. the future of our state, our country, to ask, and that is .not, Does the new 3. The means employed should be I III. I come now to the one great and our race. As teachers, negligence done. It is only by the most earnest translation please my taste or my consistant with end. This principle object which has already been hinted energetic work of the teacher and on your part, or abuse of man’s theology ? but, Is it correct ? Does it child that these defects can lie to some is of general and practical import. It at in some statements already before method and object is almost if not represent God’s word in the Greek ? extent corrected and overcome. The comprehends both the matter and you. I find myself at a loss for words altogether excusable. The future The fact is that a great part of the teacher comes in to deal with the pre- method of teaching—the what and the to express and enforce it. if I can good demands of you to eliminate the complaints against tho Revision is di seutaqi future ; 'often encumbered lune. A person wishing to extinguish suggest it in such a way that you errors of the past and develop faster, rected squarely against the Bible. It -With a chaos of moral infirmitives, a fire would connnit an error should will comprehend it, I trust you may and perpetuate those powerful in is will-worship, a pride and conceit of intellectual deficiencies, and physical he throw coal oil on it, though he never lose sight ofdt and that it will fluences that shall forever and forever (I the will that prefers what we think perversions in the child, and such is would be using a liquid. The physi ever be the chief element in your an stand as a monument to your loyal the nature of your work a.s it comes cian finding his patient suffering from swer to tho question, Why you teach Í industry, purity of purpose, and skill God ought to have written above to you day by day in the boys and extreme prostration, arterial action parents, teachers and society generally ful energetic efforts, and a crown of what he actually did write, that sits in judgment on God and his revela flagging, the pulse scarcely percept are too often mindful of the use to be girls from the infancy of the past. glory and honor worthy to be worn by tion. ible, would be guilty of mal-practice made of our boys and girls. That (d) Into the midst of this chaos the those true men and women who are —X. true teacher fearlessly casts himself, should he administer a powerful seda they are the material and the only an honor to as well as honored by tive, though he would be giving a material from which true men and —The University at \Cambridge, Eng “ the Vam Amburgh of every day this dignified profession. The raw life.” It is his business to grapple medicine. The inconsistency in these women are ma<le ; and that all means material goes through mahy JrandsAn land, by an immense majority of ita senate to 12—has opened ita regnlar exami with all the elements of moral.jaad cases of means employe^, and the end and methods are worse than wasted the shops, and many, influentes are nations to women «Indents, granting them in view is quite apparent. In the that do not contribute to this great mental disorder, and bid them “ stand brought to bear uppn it froln -the tne aame honors and degrees ax to young, ruled.” . As " out of the nettled first instance water might be used, end, and that failure isenscribed upon strokes of skilled workman before it men. the women can now have not sim danger we pluck the flower of safety," but in a quantity too smalhto put out all efforts when this end is not at becomes a useful and ornamental ply the certificates of Girton College, but his task is to pluck from the un the flame. In the case of the sick tained. article, there are certain important ths coveted parchment of ons of the ven man, the proper remedy might be erable universities of England. It will Many parents think of the children weeded gardens of wayward child points in the process'when size, shape, awaken new enthusiasm and pride among used, but in an improper form or only as consumers, to eat and wearj^ hood the rich fruit of a true genial temper and polish are given, and any the young men to preserve oollege honors man or wopianhood. The marvels of quantity. The true object of educa- drink and swear. They feed and failure here remains a defect and in from being snatched from them by these clothe them simply as a duty in or-, tails loss and disaster in its future clnmical transmutation are tarile I tion is to secure a symmetrical devel- alert, temperant and dilligent sisters.
