Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-02-04
MaY1tal PoUar

Rev. T. a. Mipls, one of the most practical,
clear headed and efficient workers of our time, in
+ his first annual report. secretary of perma-
nent committee for the PROMOTION of ministerial
edaclri0n, says:
"A iew ye.rs ago, wintry morning, boy
IN the hAoiiIments OF poverty entered an old
| school house among our western mountains, avow-
| eI ID the mIste- his desire for educltion.--
Fhere was poverty laying one of her richest gifts
ON The altar'of religion; for that boy was John
! King. On his humble slloem tker's bench, Carey
iIld the .oanlatiOn OF British Baptist M.Ssions-
John Newton found in his congreg alton an I'M
irended Scotch boy, whose soul was thcn glowin,-
WITH new born love to Christ. He took him to
John Tho;nson one os those noble merchants
whose w-altl, whose piety, and whose beneicence,
increase together. Tney educated him; and that
boy became Clludius Buchanan, whose name India
viii bless, when the names OF Give and Hastings
are forgotten. ] Ohm Buny an was gift Of poverty
from the church; Zwineie came fcr;h from an al
pine shepherds cabin; Melancthon from all armo-
rer's workshop: Luther from miners cottage;
the Apostles, some of them, from fishermJn's 5
hats. These are the gifts Of poverty to the
Church."
Poverty compels temperance by making detc
deicacles impossible, and allows very moderbsc
supply OF the necesSlreS OF lire, AMI even these
are 10 be secured at the expense OF physical exer-
ton ana h0mely work-the best tonic, the must ef-
hclenJ purifier OF the blood ever known; nence
comes 4 healthy body and vigorous mind. Tenn
peranc alone does not evolve the hghess grades OF
II, n4 superiority, il must in earlier pirt OF lie,
oe c)AI Dned with proportitaiite phYslc exercise.
Very few o. the grea. IN IS oi tbs Country hive
conc RON Elc clEy, the c:tlse Ot tle rich
Fae farm luI ti4 workshop h I'VE supplied by far
sle large nIir Der oi our eminent men. Perh ips
ter al, we have never yet arrived the true sys
tenn OF cducatioI Ii cher results, more frutless
error, an progress without fanatic-m, my result
from IN elpcttiOn csnlucted up To twenty-five
years OF age, follows: When the child begins
the tenth yelr. let him be impressed with the duty
anu necessity OF ''doing sOmcthng for Iiving."-
Let nine O'Clock be the hour for bed time, winter
ami simmer; leave bed At the end OF eight hours,
stuy until eleven O'clock, then dress for work the
balance OF the dry.
We believe that any literary man would be wi
ser, better, healthier, at the end of year, by the
systematic prosecution of a plan similar to the
above 10 rise by daylight, the year round by
the time he is dressed it will be light enough to
read, Then, III the cool and quiet OF the morning,
when the brain is most vigorous, let him study with
ali the energy he can master for four I'VE hours
then dress FOR labor take his breakfast and go to
work, pursuing it with steady moderation until the
close OF the day, that Is until shutdown, then take
his supper, alter which until bed time of nile
O'Clock, let him employ himself in social inter-
course with family and friends, and in his acquain
ting himself with the progress Of things through
the newspaper and periodical press-sor without this
last, any man of this age will soon become a mere
cypher as to influence, and an ignoramus as to ac-
quirements. The progress now consists in unleam-
Ing much that is old, and in acquainiing ones self
W tn the new, in order to be able to determine its
worth. Halls Journal Of Health