The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-04-06

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their duty according to the school law,
but those who obey Gods law. Men
who are brave and courageous and
without fear or affection will correct
and reprove the evil doer, the swearer,
the liar, the filthy, the Sabbath breaker
and 60 on.
Having our teacher we next consider
the second most important item, viz,
the full and hearty approval, by the
pareHts, of teachers course and their
perfect cooperation. Let them also cry
out against sin and wickedness, and
teach their children to abhor evil deeds
and to shun evil deeds. Tell them the
teacher is right when he Furnishes for
lying, swearing, obscene talk and prac-
tees, stealing, fighting and so on. Wis.,
it your schools often and encourage the
scholars ard teacher. In this way you
can assist in laying the foundation for
true education, which will be bless
ing to the owner, and result in the final
happiness Of your children, when Christ
Jesus our blessed Lord comes 10 make
up his jewels.
shall now notice q few hinderances
or checks to the cause of true education.
In the first place, teachers and parents
are not all God fearing men themselves,
consequently, they first discharge their
duties merely to satisfy the law, caring
but little about the true welfare of the
scholar; the second - parents - are
angered at the pious teacher, when their
children are corrected or reproved for
Immoral and wicked practices and say
before their children that it
10 none of tho teachers
business. When the teacher talks to
his scholars how wicked and ungen-
teel it is to lie, swear, cheat &C., If this
course is practiced and upheld at home
(for if the parent practices such things
before his children lie in one sense up
holds it) if the scholar is guilty he does
not relish the talk. Should the teacher
tell his scholars, there is q great God
who sees, hears and knows what is
done; if they are guilty of misdeeds
they do not wish to hear of it. If schol-
ars take unfair advantage of one anoth-
er and the teacher tells them it is wrong
and dishonest and that the same prin-
ciple, if followed, would incarcerate
them in jails and penitentiaries,
and perhaps lead them to the gallows,
they don't like to hear it, nor the man
that tells them so.
If the strong impose upon the weak
and are corrected for it, they don't like
the teacher. If the scholar, whose moth
er-tongue is English, hears German,
Bohemian, Irish, Missourian etc. schol-
ar speak or recite his lessons, lie laughs
at aud ridicules, the broken language of
the child. If he is reproved for his UNI
kindness and told that no gentleman
would be guilty of such unfeeling aud
ungenerous conduct-he don't like the
teacher. These "don't likes" in the
great majority Of cases makes their APP
pearence in the scholar whose parents
consider it none of the teachers business
to talk about such things and as mat
ter very evident, refuse to cooperate
with the teacher; consequently, are
such who aid the first described educa-
ton and oppose true education. Let
such pause and take another view Of the
picture presented for their especial in
spectiOn.
In short, if the teacher does not per-
nit anything aud everything, he is not
liked by such scholars. And suppose a
teacher was SO weak minded, that for
the sake of being popular with such
(who are in general, ring-leaders of the
districts they infest,) he would allow
things to be carried OH which morality
and his own judgment tell him, is wick
ed and ruinous? what an unenviable
position he would find himself occupy
ing! But the answer 10 that supposi.
ton is so self evident that man who is
fit to hold certificate could not DC de-
ceived by such palpable "humbug" for
the thousandth part of one short second.
Then, I say, teachers, once certain that
your course is according to correct prin.
cip!es, pursue it with answering tideli-
ty, and God the searcher of all hearts,
will reward you in the day when the
New Jerusalem" shall come down from
God out of Heaven, prepared as bride
adorned for her husband. When God
shall wipe away all tears from his pco-
PIES eyes; and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow nor crying, Meth
er shall there be any more pain; for the
former things are passed away. But the
fearful (not fearing, observc) and unbe-
lieving, and the abominable, and muir.
derers, and wlloremongcrs, and sorcer
ers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall
have their part in the lake, which burn
eth with fire aud birthstone, which is
the second DEATH"
But let us, for moment hearken to
sounds that seem to he flying in the air
such as, "Our children don't like the
teacher and consequently can't learn
anything" "Who ever heard of schol.
ars learning under teacher whom they
hate?" ave had better have a change"
He, 1 suppose, is good teacher, but he
is played out here" according to re-
port, he teaches morality which might be
well enough, but then bah he is no
better than he ought to be-" "Well |
don't believe much in man talking in
school, about cheating, lying, stealing,
gambling, drunkenness &C., "None of
his business. at all. l don't want my
children to practice such things but
then ! guess l can tell them so about as
he cam" so say I, neighbor Profanity,
let him teach book larnin' and let