The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-01-29 00:00:00

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be bridged over by men having technical information and
sptcial aptitudes. Though science lies at the foundation
of the arts, her immediate cultivators are rarely the
spoilers of the knowledge which they help to discover.
Sc-nee may be likened to • perennial stream with a
bountiful supply of fertilising waters; but those who
desire to use them must cut channels ter irrigation. It is
neither in the interest of science nor of manufacture,
that the cultivators of the former should direct their atten-
tion from it in order to minister to the wants of productive
Indit.try This is the proper function cf the productive
ellass, fleece the necessity that they should receive a
high wits•etion. so that they may apply eti,nee to their
wants and necessities. This Is now recognised pretty gene-
rally by manufacturers, who are content to admit that such
knowledge should be possessed by their foremen and mana-
gers though they do not lee any necessity for it among the
artisan.. The true education of a labourer Is to make him
an intelligent bring. not A mere dexterous manipulator, so ,
that he may have the moral dignity and intellectual force
derived from a thorough undentalgiling of the principles of
the work in which he is engaged.

that the education is in their eyes a matter of the
utmost importance ; unless by constantly showing
an unvarying interest they make their children
understand that this is the thing to which
the children are to give their energy—then depend
upon it, there will be no result worth getting. (Ap-
planse.) Our real chance of educating your children,
whatever we who may perhaps have some hand in the
organization of it may do—our real chance depends
upon your really desiring that the children 'shall be
educated. (Hear, hear.) And I say this the more
earn-ally to you because you, by the very fact of your
belonging to such societies, show that you are doing
what God plainly intended you to do, that you are
looking forward to the future, that you are pro-
viding for your own households. And if this be
the case—if you are among your own class those
who have taken forethought, and are really con-
sidering what lies in front of them—will you not
take forethought for your children too? (Hear,
hear.) Vill you not remember that by-and-by
the difference between the educated and the unedu-
cated men, between the man who has been
properly trained in his calling and the man who
has not is jost all the difference between comfort and
discomfort in life. Don't you know by experience long I
and cure that if you can only train children well there
is nothing you can do for them in the way of savings,
in the way of provision, in the way of giving them
money, which can possibly be compared with that?
(N pplaume ) And if, therefore, you have taken pains
to look forward in the future, and to provide against
sickness, and to provide against old age in bOnfle Clll9eB,
and so to take care that if ever you are disabled your
families shall not starve—will you not also see that
your children ehall heir with them into life the one
brat gift beyond all other gifts you can give—the
thorough diecipline of the habits, of the mind, of all
the Rovers, so that they ehall grow up really useful,
honest, respectable men. (Hear, hear.) You know
well what a dtfference it makes afterwards in their
happiness, arid in your happiness as you watch them.
I speek about this most earnestly to you, because.
whilet a great deal is said about the organisation of
education, I do think sometimes that it is possible you
may forget that nine-tenths of the success depends upon
you and only one-tenth on all that organization can
do. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. I. Achill& M.P., also spoke, and endorsed the re-
marks of the Bishop Oil the necessity of the work of edu-
cation being done by the people themselves. Compulsory
eduestion was no good unless the people desired it, and
when the ',elite deiired it there would be no need of com-
pulsion.

too, as the representative of Christ on earth, could
only think of divine things. He had, therefore, called
the CuunciL Some said this Council proposed to
change the world and its inhabitants; but though the
views and thoughts of men might change, the Council
could not change Some said, too, that the
Council ought to place itself in azreement with the
views of men. This also the Council could not do; for
God's thoughts were not men's thoughts, nor were
G ways men's ways. The Council should look
only to the ideas and the will of God His Holiness
concluded with a few heart-felt and paternal words, ad-
dressed to his 'dear sons and daughters from Germany,
England, and France,' and then gave them his bles-
sing The retreat of the Holy Father was even
more difficult than hi, arrival, and it was almost a
painful scene when the French women threw them-
selvi s with hysterical sobs in his way, and hod to be
driven back by main force to allow him to pass."