Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-03-11

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from the restlessness caused by an overloaded
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How to think How to speak. How to act.
These three-is there anything more to teach
| ehild2 The first great object in our Primary
! Schools is to educate the heart. Who Is 50 low
as not to love to see a good childI Who does
not love to see good mani But you may say
they are few and scattering. Too truel It
Is too true. But there's the pity Of It that
man, made in the image Of his God should
grow up among such inhuehces as to make him
an evn man. And here let me bring home my
argument and my earnest plea for systematic
course OF moral instruction, so that we NAV all
| live under better influences. Mind has power
to govern. The lion has power to conquer, but
no power to govern. The power to govern Is
within the province of mind, hence the mind is
king. And where is better place to begin
than at home? Self government then Is in our
Owr power. Are not all criminal laws based
upon this fact? But what mystery Is here
Mind fed with low animal and vegetable matter.
Mind fed with food which in few hours sours,
and mOulds and rots if not eaten Mind that
can energise itself, and can see the beautiful
stars of heaven. as blossoms of the dawn Of
evening" or as s'lillies on the tomb of night ''
as Prentice sees them.
Psychologists nearly all agree that the brain
is the physical seat of the mind and the nerves
very closely connected. A cold north-easter
will try the temper of the well-elothed and fed,
by its effects, Ist upon the nerves; ID, the mind
The first passive-the second active.
The external man receives his influences from
without. In such cases, before zoe act, as one
would say-the internal man, or mind has
been asked question-decided it. or passed
judgment upon it-and Mr.. Judgment has
passed it over to Mr.. Officer VIII to execute
Will sends out his messengers-the nerves Of
mOtion-and commands his servants to move
and bring back consciousness of the right mo-
ton.
Now the Internal man. Psychologists are
also of the opinion that the gray" cell-Iike
part of the fluid of the nerves originates power;
while the other-the white and fibrous part
carries the intelligence to the brain; j. e., this
second (the Whitley is the s'telegraphic'' wire
most exquisitely ductile wire this while the
first is the operator and news-maker.
So here we have telegraphic office-the
lead; various lines of communieation-the
nerves, through the senses-carrying ideas
These ideas are laid before the Passions, Imag-
inatiOn or Reason. Pause here Physically,
chemical action begins within these hair-like
tubes; minute cell-Iike atom bursts-oh, why?
and, as in our atmospheric tube, motion is
produced which reaches the brain. And here,
mentally ideas are born, and become motive
powers that move the man, and the world. But
the dark veil of mystery is drawn betwixt US
and the lChy of the connections. 1t is well.
Spiritualizing words by looking at certain
symbols and so connecting them as to form
ideas is a mystery. Clouds and sunshine are
both necessary to the growth of vegetation; so
clouds Of seeming adversely with the occasional
success, grow peTsevering effort. We tire of all
hot or cold weather. We are made fools by all
praise, and bitter by all censure. A spirit to
overcome difficulty makes the man. And yet
may not the mind 5 stomach become overloaded?
Crowding, or feeding the vital force with too
many kinds of food at a time is not best. How
many is too many? Shall the growing child
eat just what we say, and from morning till
nightl Freedom is a power working in every
thinking mind, but dIfFeedOm is not good II
we use this power for doing good, it is good
thing to have freedom. knowledge is a power.
but all knowledge is not good. If we use this
power for working good, it is a good thing to
have knowledge.
The Indians life is summed up in getting
something to eat and drink, idleness and re-
venge. The sum of civilization is regularity.
A regular time to both work and play That
system or kind of education or Government is
best that makes the happiest homes. The In
dian has no home, but he adapts himself to his
condition; or rather he has no better ideas of
life. Why Is it that what we call the most en-
ightened nations of the globe believe in a rev.
elation from spirit God? Truth,-by faith,
ID uduOcQ uOWu-DIOCldlueQ DY q GOVERNOR OF
the Universe-claiming to be the moral Gov
ernor of all men. His laws are to be always
binding upon all men,-and this idea, being
really believed, makes better men Of them, ele-
Yates them, baptises them with purer aspira.
tions-becomes living principle, a fixed mo-
tive power, a decided reality-aiminR to be
immortal happy participators in the unspeaka-
bic loys-here words fail-Of that pure land
where an Infinite God is the light thereof. These
n et1%.,. &la.-. Is. 1
scter here. And so a living, lovely faith is the
vital force of all true moral action.
Judge Nash, in his logical work, entitled
Morality and the State, says s.Faith can
adopt nothing seemingly in conflict with the
reason; but we may adopt as true the moral
judgments of others, because our own reasonis
not sufficiently cultivated or informed to verify
them. In this way, we obtain, in early life, al
our moral judgments upon faith In the iud1-
ment of others. The educated mind sustsins,
therefore, a deeply interesting relation to the
uneducated; it stands in Gods stead to declare
Gods truth. The child believes that his par
ents know the true law of right, and hence be-
heves IN 1t on their mere assertion. Is this
right? ''Faith adopts this law so received and
by this act it becomes an obligatory law; law
which the mind receives at true, as right The
duty of the teacher is, therefore, highly mn
pOrtant and responsible one. He must know
Llc lIulu u MldJ WOulQ Iedcls OEuerWlSe l0
may impart error, and thus murder the soul
instead of imparting the true life to it" .sTo
teach error is great wrong to humanity; to do
1t Oi deliberate purpose is the highest pOssi-
bic crime, since the perfection of humanity de-
pends upon its receiving the true divine law
Still there is liability to error; each must teach
the truth as it appears to his reason Absolute
truth is the privilege of none.
Here we have, well stated some of the prac-
teal difficulties in the way of giving moral in
struetiOn to young or old; but christian char
ity viii agree ON many points; and let us know
these main points. VIII our religious teachers
here do what they canto help us?
''lt is not always the best charity which dis
tributes the most money: that is the best chari-
ty which enables the destitute to live without
charity, in the Consciousness Of daily bread
earned by daily toll. The ignorant are to be
the vicious reclaimed" says our
earned judge.
The wisdom of giving money as a charity to
)ur poor may well be questioned and still more
he supporting in idleness Of our various classes
/ also recommend a''truant-law' for the gov
srning of truants from our schools Massachu-
'etts has such a law which works wonders in
he larger towns and cities.
What Shall the blood and treasure of this
Iast country be so freely given to preserve a
lation of young idlers? Do we now realize that
/ nation to be stable and prosperous must be
made up Of good and industrious menl Do we
yet believe that the masses the working men
must be educated in free country, so that they
viii know how to use their freedom and their
'ufrages? And in this age of fraud and treach-
Try against the best government ever instituted
by enlightened men, do we know that to pre-
erve it, we must have true and wise men, both
n and out of office? If we don't we or our
children must be made to feel it, and BY Bit
erer experience than we now have. Ny hope
# humanity, and of my beloved country, is in
he moral worth and integrity of the masses
The Presidents Body Guard.
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