The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-04-30

Oh weary watcher beside the shrive of knowledge!
but take this truth to thy heart that-the true
teachers labors never lost lo will most surely
receive his reward.
Books, charts and apparatus of all kinds, are
now scattered everywhere with lavish ptotusion
but these are only the instructors helps" They
cannot reduce the truhs they bringto the capacity
of every student, for the mind is more varied than
the earthly temple which enshrines it. Normal
Schools and Institutes have been established to
assist in this arduous and too often thanless task
There the teacher may receive the assistance and
advice Of the learned and wise may learn from
the experience of those who have long laborcd
zealousy in the noble cause there select and
treasure up modes Of teaching thoughts and hints
to guide lin in lis future career II is greatly to
be regretted that Teachers Institutes are not OF!
more frequent recurrence. We would humblv sug-
gest that Town Institutes be organized, TO meet
scmi-annually. The advantages to be derived there
from, are various. Each teacher, student pu-
rent or guardian could then attend and become
equally interested instructed and benefited at a
very trfing expense. Such cannot be the case
at our County Institutes. They would afford
excellent facilities for engaging competent and
worthy teachers, and we can bat believe, that
faculty, s1ch an one as should preside over in.
sttutons of a similar character, would be far
better judges of the qualifications of candidates,
than those generally elected By our present re-
gime. THY would serve to interest parents and
guardians whose apathy has SO long and 60
cruelty, more than anything else, retarded the
rapid and happy advancement Of the cause Of
education. Aye they may pour freely out, the
means to supply all educational facilities, yet,
unless they take on earnest, active interest in
the substance iLs,ead of the sladOw, they have
done comparatively
In organizations Of this kind alone can the
| teacher acquire so great an amount of useful
knowledge, or become more deeply imbued
with a just s,nse of the important trust commit
ted TO his charge. 10 him. thus aided, must
we leave the method by which he may draw
around him those whom Christ deigneI to bless
assured that his influence and teachings will
swell the grand "Te Deum' around the "great
white THRONE
Wherever the influence o! lucition extends.
schools, colleges, seninaries of learning spring
np as though at the wizard touch Of the magi's
enchantment. Yet these are but cold sensaess
walls and nothing worth, if within them her
living, breathing, acting spirit moves not over
the chaos of ignorance starting into life ener
gies, thoughts aud emotions, which like the
pure light of Heaven, will beam but to beaut.
fy and invigorate; to throw over all mn Eden
halo, all trembl ng with light anil truth Givine.
Around the holy altars of knowledg,, none
! save the true and loving Should ever wait
| those whose hearts are deeply imbued with the
conviction that into their charge, with every
youthful mind, is committed harp of eS1uis
lie, divine workmanship, whose keys as they
are attuned here. whether TO sweet harmonious
strains; or harsh dscorlamt sounds, will thus
play on forever. How compara,ively few.cyen
after years of unremitting toll, can call forth
the full, rich, thrilling melody which seems TO
burst spontaneously up from the qui,eriug
strings at the lightest touch of the Masters
hand Fewer still can sweep the delicate chord
which inter!acc The human heart, and call not
INTO action more Of lis wild aud slrous pas
sonS, than lis noble ana magnanimuu, uttri5-
utgs. Thus Education, like lha religion of our
Saviour is disregarIed retarded ever, by those
who serve her unworihi!y, OF ia ler serve ,l.nl.
selves at her expense.
The mind is spark of immortal,y,of D,ity:
and can never BE- reduced 10 geometricAl rules
and forms. No Procrustean couch can, or
should ever seek to measure or bound its r,h,n.
al proportions. An none save those, who with
clear intellect anl winning, loving heart, eau
look dowlinto the deep fountains of IN, lu-
man soul, whcthrr cnshrlalrl in tn storms or
b1'h-d in 'hi sunsliu4 o? lifo,aud tsoc, in ,h,ir
darAaned depths, III. star, oh.curcd or burning
bat dmly there; brush away with kind, hand
the dust OF error, oil isuo:ance uni plrchance
OF sin; lead it gently up from its gloomy lhrall-
dom and place 1t upon the firm basis Of moral
aud intellectual grdnltur; should ever b, per
mltted to minister at her sacred sarin,s They
may be able to trace The erratic pathway of tn
wheeling comet point ont the may course Of
The ever clrc.ing stars, or lead the quivering
lightning with siikau rein; they ,rty rival in
wisdom lh4 mystic lore Of the ancient say. and
philosopher, and grasp with mighty mini. th.
proud intentions and improvements VIII ch
place orr century pre-cminent above all mo lrrn
iiHe' dlii yet d'voil Of the bighes, quail
ilca'ions Which Siould ciIaracteriz. lhus, into
who's charge are cn'nm;t-d The priceless germs
OF mind, which are TO expand Tor brief $ "a son
on the shares Of tim, then b, horne aloc! Into
Tie bIisSfli presence Of tn. Grra, Teachrr-God
our Father en- p
I5'A heavy frost on tn. hornin. Of the OH
ol April killed the corn, cotton and wheat crops
IN ihe vicinity of Augusta, Georgia.
!z2>The court-honse at Mount Carm,L ILL.,.
was burned ON the Sh Of April. All the records