Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-11-16

canSt, but my son, get knowledge"
candidly think here is the remedy
"rhe sOvereignest thing on earth" i:
hard head work for mental emptiness
What cannot the young teacher reason
ably hope for who sets out with such
purpose, and lives up to it.
Hugh Miller advises the young peo
pie of Scotland, to seek not happfnes
in what is miscalled pleasure; but rath
er, in what is known as study. Is thai
advice not well suited to Ohio? Act on
it, and soon you can smile com placent
ly on Examining Boards, and instead
of fiery trial, their lists of questions
m the legal branches, will scarcely ex.
cite gentle warmth. You will moi
need to hunt situations; situations will
hunt you. The young teacher who
wOrthily musters in intellectual con.
f1ict the urchins of the log school house,
may, in time, preside over our best ap.
pointed College. Hence, a door is open
to the laudabiy ambitious, to become
known in the world. But that is not
requisite to success in life. Success
what is it? Not. necessarily fame, po-
sition or riches, but so acting your part
that the world will be some better for
your having lived in it. This success
the teacher may have in abundant
measure, and linked With those Othea
more palpable, more attractive results;
more attractive, / say, for few of US
have the grace to desire ObScurity
In view of the truth mentioned, and
many Others bearin, on the case, is ii
surpr sing that so many teachers seem
satisfied with their limited attachments
and their consequent poor situations
and scanty pay-that neither the SUBJ
lime pleasure of knowledge, whose val
ue is beyond computation, nor Uhe.ma-
terial advantage, whose worth can be
ct down in dollars and cents, will per-
suade them to lay hold of this lever of
self-culture.
My young friends here assembled,
let me advise YOU to study. Make a
VOW upon the altar o. your own man
hood that you will go up higher-high-
er in station it may be, but in any
event, higher in capacity for usefulness,
higher in spiritual development. 1t
cannot be done by fine dreaming about
the future-your future will likely be
just what you make it; the world owes
you nothing-truSt nothing to your
genius-a sandy foundation at best, no
more fit to build the structure of your
life on than the ghoStly twill o. the
wisp" Is to guide the sailor midst sur
ging midnight WIVES. M, so n ethinx
more definite is needed-the path to
success must resist those temptations
which entice you to waste your time
must count that session lost to which
you cannot LOOK back aslthe time when
you diligently pursued studies, aud
grlsped a higher rJu Id Of that ladder
whose foot is in your path of duty,
whose top is lost in the glory of q high
er, nobler life,
Do not rest content with knowledge
of textbooks in the branches you teach
Why, the boys and.'girls of your i U.s.
es are expected to soon know them.
Pursue your in I1irieS into other fields.
Nature, from her livln, pIge5, will
furnish you IN abundant store of fresh
facts and il ussrttiols, which will!n aie
yOar in5trd:tiOlS m)re entertain n 81
AMI you mist interest your pupils orI
failure is Sure-Yill OD I'll your h5lfGda1
enable you to establish AMI keep in
working order the mysterious tel =
graph of thought between your mind
and the minds of your pupils, by char
ging the battery with knOIle lye and
enthusiasm, and insulating the wire
with devoted attent on and love for
the work.
The various agencies Of Institutes,
Normal Schools and Executive Boards,
are for the one purpos :, ,tosecuse well
qualified teacher behind each teachers
desk Use these. Attend the former,
and support the latter, in their efforts
to raise the standard, and perfect the
model, OF what a teacher should be.
But that other lever you have your
own han;ls, by which imprOve-the
God given talents in your possession,
the good books 80 easily obtained, the
ample stores of knowledge to be gath
ere1 from Natures fields, the very
discipline the schoOl-room affords. Use
these, young teachers, as you may use
them; then the go ID results 70 your
selves are beyond conception, while
the free-schOol system of our Site
could proudly overcome all other hind
RANGES, and the future wonld see it-i
city upon a hill, which cannot be hid
a liz hit, shining more and moe unto
perfect day.