Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-04
USES OF N D SCHOOLS.

Science, makes use of a remark capa-
BILE of much wider application than he
has given it: GA parent who assidu-
ously follows his children throughout
the various steps of their education,
will find his own knowledge increased,
and his own education carried forward,
vastly beyond what he would have con-
ceiyed possible. There are very few
things which a child ought to learn'
from the study Of which an adult Will
not derive great advantage, especially
if he go through the process OF simpi'-
ication and analysis, which is so nee
essary to communicate knowledge to
the young. A parents superiority can
not be retained, if, as soon MS he enters
upon active business, he desist from all
effort after intellectual cultivation, and
surrenders himself a slave to physical
labor, while he devotes his child to
mere mental cultivation, and thus rem
ders intellectual intercourse between
himself and his children impossible
The Sunday School system is COM
plete within itself, if the whole of those
who heartily engage in it move forward
together. Those who teach also learn.
It has been begun with little children
who could neither read nor write, and
it has been carried on among theologi-
cal professors and students with all the
profounduess of the most thorough and
critical exegesis. 1t can thus adapt
itself without aid from without, and
bear the whole mass upward from the
little child to the man Of gray hairs,
to the hight of all Biblical and
religious knowledge, which their adj
vantages, time and diligence, may
enable them to pursue. The Sun
day School is q system Of author
lied Lay instruction. There is
q vast amoun of intelligence combined
with piety, which, in Il religious point
Of view, would be almost utterly
wasted, were it not for Sunday schools,
while by them it is brought into the
most efficient action. It thus performs
a very large portion of the work of an
educated ministry, in an authorized and
efficient manner, and makes their labors
60 much further and produce far more
effect. Preaching is not any better I'M
derstood, but more highly priced, and
it is from the Sunday school that almost
all the churches of the land are replen-
ished.
1t is, moreover, q system thoroughly
adapted to all classes and capacities.
Indeed the religious studies on which
it is based have this remarkable fea-
ture, of making interesting all other
studies connected with them, however
remotely. The geography of the Holy
Land will become interesting to many a
child who has cried over his geography
during the week. Around all history
these studies throw q peculiar charm,
| and many of the researches now being
made as to ancient Nineveh, Babylon
and Egypt derive their chief interest
from the light they throw upon sacred
narrative s. No doubt the study Of the
classics has produced much profound
research into various points Of history,
anners and customs, but the study Of
religion as a whole has produced some
of the most valuable Investigations Of
our times into all branches Of knowl-
edge.
A large proportion of the study Of
the dead languages is applied to the
illustration Of the Sacred Volume.
Much of the process Of this labor and
all its results are brought out by Com
mcutaries and Bible Dictionaries; and
profound metaphysical powers may be
brought to greater physical perfection
from the careful study Of the original
language and doctrines Of the Bible,
than in any other way. The Sunday
school seems to possess the faculty of
making all its knowledge interesting.
There is no doubt that the Sunday
school is the great nursery from which
not only the ministry, but the most
efficient benevolent men and women are
supplied. 1t may thus be known before
hand, who will be practically useful
as teachers and rs citizens. Those apt
to teach in the Sunday school give at
least no small promise that they will be
found apt to teach in other spheres Of
usefulness and labor. But If they are
above devoting themselves to the hum
BILE labors of the Sunday school, and
Jealous only to declaim before crowded
audiences, it is not difficult to sec that
they must make but shallow and frothy
preachers. Perhaps it may also be
added that there is no other knowledge
so easily and certainly retained, where
it exists, as that Of an carly and thor
ough acquaintance with the Bible. In
many cases, the lack Of this will never
be overcome, while q thorough study Of
the Scriptures will give weight and
success to all further progress, that
nothing besides could supply.
HUMAN Bones IN A QUEER PLACE
A very interesting, and, in one aspect,
a profoundly important discovery has
been lately made at Antelope, a station