Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-26

on the fact, that our college embraces al
Theological as well as a Classicai ac-
partment.
Tits unnecessary to insist on the ascrep
importance of education in general. MAJ
nv of the ablest authors OF ancient rna
modern times have exhibited its value
What Inheritance, equally precious and
permanent, can a parent bequea,h =
| Where is the man that4dees not aspire
at the consolation of rejecting, IN iite's
decline, that he has trained up his chill
dren in the way that they should go
| One consideration must not be forgotten
Children are the hope ofthe coming age.
A few years will introduce upon the
stage of public action neutrality-suspicious.
of men, who, when we are sleeping with
our fathers, will offer to the world exam
Piles, and spread throughyit principles,
that shall prove useful Or detrimental,
corresponding with the direction that
education shall have communicated.
Other physicians will enter the cham
bers fthe afflicted other divines will be
heard from our pulpits; and other civil
lians display their talents in courts ofJu-
dicature. Yonder magnificent CAPITOL
will concentrate the wisdom of other
senators and resound with the periods of
other representatives. Let the parent,
the patriot, the Christian, seriously pom
der on this idea, and he will no more ne
glect his duty than he can cease TO love
his children, his country, and his Cod
The formation of the manners of youth
is the moral fnlcrum by which we may
raise the world.
States, the most enlightened, without
claiming the business of education, have
promoted its solid interest by their liberia!
patronage. Their example is worthy Of
universal adoption. 1t is by such means
that commonwealth throws bulwarks
around her, that shall remain firm and
unimpaired, when brass and marble shall
have fallen and decayed. Learning has
tendency to introduce amiableness and
dignity into domestic life {; it secures to
its possessor treasures infinitely superior
to all that avarice has ever collected,
vanity rccounted, or adversely swept
away. Spcncippus is said to have placed
round his school the pictures Of Joy and
Gladness, with the intention ofsignilying
that the business Of instruction should be
rendered as pleasant as possible. Per
haps the philosopher had in yiew still
higher idea; and was DESTROYS OF init
mating, that learning is basis on which
a large proportion of the comforts OF our
present existence will be found to rest.
The Columbian College, whose Iacul-
~ have this day been announced and re-
cognized, for the present is open chiefly
to classical and theological students; bur
should the blessings of heaven descend
on the projects, and crown the exertions
of its friends and supporters, additional
edifices will soon be erected, where lee
lures will be delivered on the Institutes
Of Law and on Medical Science.
'- Contemplating the rapidly with which
these buildings haveiariseh, the preserva-
ton Of the workmen from the slightest
harm, and the liberal contributions that
have been obtained, and are still arriving;
and remembering, that every good gift,
and every perfect gift is from above, we
must teel that an offering of nndlssem-
bled gratitude is due to the Father Of
Lights. In HIS NAME the foundation
has been laid and TO the charge Of His
stao'ols ifoviueace' Jug ass.,''ies . ., .no
No,u'i'ois' ooiiese are, WIZ, mummy
ana sa.islac'ion' eonnaed' nc recon, :,
,nehda.ion WIN Which M ing Yenefa",e anu
oeiovea rresioei'' 'oi ''e onne', o.a'es
mas neen pieaseo 20 nonof 'ae ahs.i,e'lo - J
tne 'es'lh'oh'ais ooiigmey lof,.'snea !. oy !.
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