The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-26
Enuratinnat
Proceedings Of the
POTTER COUNTY
TEACHERS INSTITUTE,
HELD AT coUDERsPoRT,
November I6tfl to 2Gfh, 1857.


MONDAY, Nov. 16.
The Teachers Institute assembled in
the upper recitation room of the Academy
and was called to order by Mr.. Hendriek
On motion, Mr.. j. Hendrick was elect.
ed President, and s. S. Greenman Sec'y.
Mr.. NJ. o. Crosby, and Misses Stearns and
Northrup, were appointed as Committee
of Arrangements, and Miss Anna Lewis,
Miss Julia S. Catlin and Mr.. Q. j. Rees,
were appointed Committee on Resolutions.
Exercises in Mental Arithmetic, con-
Quoted by Mr. Iendrick Recess. Ex-
ercises in Practical Arithmetic. Also
Orthography. r. .t .
AFTERNOON SESSION. r.
Assembled Ii o'clock Geography,
conducted by Mr. Uendrick. Recess
Exercises in Elocution. Recess. An
old fashioned school was then represented
with much spirit, if not accuracy. Ad-
journed until 7 o'clock in the evening.
EVENING SESSION. -.f....
Convened in the evening at the Pres
byterian Church. Music by the mem
bcrs of the Institute. Prayer by Rev. a.
Mcintyre. The President th:n intro
duced the REV. C. VI. BLAKE, who pro
ceeded to deliver the following very in
teresting and instructive ..
ADDRESS: .H
TEACHERS & FRIENDS OF EDUCATIoN,
LADIES ANU GENTLEMEN The annual
season of the fallen leaves, and gather
ed harvests, and Thanksgiving, and all
other preparations for winter has come !;
and with it has come the period for again
assembling the youth of our land in the
Common Schools In all the vast rural
regions of the northern United States !;
new many thousands of children and
vo;,th about this season of the year are
annually gathered into tens of thousands
Of school house,, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from the northern lakes to
the southern slopes and evergl ladies'.
We are little band OF those interested .
in the great mental and moral movemen,
of the age regarding the rising race. In
this remote county OF great and ancient
Commonwealth will be found, trust, not
less warm and hearty friends Of educa-
= Il h, IN ,t bo1-
part of its borders or coasts. This lnstl-
tute for Teachers has been convened by
the County Superintendent, as means
of aiding as far as possible in elevating
and improving the Common Schools Of
this portion OF Pennsylvania and have
been selected to deliver the opening ad-
dress.
Coming before you almost stranger,
as | do, perhaps l may find an apology
for the directness of my appeals in the
fact that | regard the work Of education
as second only to that of religion; and
that | have already devoted to it some Of
the choicest years of my life. Allow me
/ then, without further exordiunl,
/. 70 extend to you ali a most ktaa
and tricndLy Greeting. Teachers
from the soArces Of the Allegheny, the
Susquehanna and the denesee, and
friends Of Education here assembled,
greet you and welcome you all And
extend to you, in the name of the Grea
Republic of Letters and of Moral I'm
provement, to each one of you, the righ
hand of warm and hearty fellowship!
claim you as my Brethren and Sisters cv
cry one of you for look upon you a!
those to whom are to be committed grea
and important trusts-the temporal good
and the eternal well-being of every chill,
who shall come under your care.
Ii. Let me then speak more fully o
the Importance and dignity of your call
ing and r s s..' #a
lst. 1t is not your salary, howeve
: great, that constitutes your Office import
ant cr dignifed As a money-makin
business you do not we'll to engage i
teaching. Laundering pays better. S
almost all kinds of active industry. Thl
/. is not right, ] know. These things ough
not SO to be, The qualifications of tn
Teacher ought to be still higher than the
are in this county, and the pay niue
! better than it is. But even then you
t wages are not the chief incentive. The
t ought not to be so. A good physician
n or an editor; or good lawyer, or faitf
full minister of the gospel, is never pai
in full for his services. 1t cannot be otl
f erwise from the nature of things. Th
: services rendered by either of them cal
not be estimated IL dollars and cents
The fee, the amount received by them,
but a token, what the Latins called a
> honorariunl, mark of regard and e