The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-07-06

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long to be remembered by tho people, and
by the class that steps out and announces
to the world that it is ready for work. - He
gave An outline of the Normal School work
Of the State. He was very sorry the St.
Cloud School had not it's now building
The old 'Stcarns House, had been made
so good that many thought it was good
enough. But the people will understand
hat real graduates are being turned out
here, for " ork, and when the Legislature
meets again it would, he was confident,
make IN appropriation for the new build
ing. (Hope We may have an unprecedented
Governor, who will not veto the bill-EDIr-
on.) The American people dare not be
apathetic in tho work of education. Our
children must be educated until every one
can intelli gently take hold Of the wheel of
government. He was favorably impressed
with the idea Of purpose expressed in the
Essays. This alone can make true men and
women. The time has come when your
teachers pronounce you ready for duty
There is to-day great call for teachers
The harvest is ready and white for the Ia
borers. Your path will not be all sunshine.
You will have many tiues an aching heart.
Cultivate forbearance, patience and the
largest hearted philanthropy. II there
are evils in the world, try to lessen them.
Love the little children committed to your
charge. No person should be allowed to
be teacher who had not the bump Of phi
loprogenitiveness largely developed. There
should be firm, unyielding religious mind
not Observation-Disclosures through
our school system. Teach the children
| the fear Of the Lord-it will aid to wis.,
| dom, and discipline will be more easy.
At the conclusion of the address, there
was short recess, when the essays were
resumed.
No. 6-":Why Not? p by Emma Hsrri-
man. 1t is an old idea that woman's high
est destiny is to be married. "A boy has
purpose and marries: q girl simply mar
ries. This is the result Of wrong education.
| If We do not endeavor to correct this, why
! not?
No. 1.-THE Habit of Idleness;' by
Evelyn A. Mckinney. The habit was
analysed, and traced to its cause-improp-
er training. A person who has acquired,
in his youth, habits of industry, seldom
becomes an idler.
sth-.'Wisdem and Knowledge" by Ada
A. Dam. Skillin so using knowledge as to
obtain the best ends is wisdom. The diff
ference between the two words, 80 closely
allied, was clearly marked out.
| 9th-"Music as an educator )" by Flora
E. Hayward. The first music was that Of
the forces of nature. Among savage ma
lions music is merely discordant sounds;
among civilized nations it has reached tho
highest perfection. The degree Of re-
6nement to which We have attained is At
tribut"ble largely to music.
| As our space will permit us to give, in
full, only one Of these essays, We publish
the last, by Virginia Mason
FREE, OF IN BONDS?
The minds Of men and women are pris-
matte, separating the white light Of truth
into many colored rays; one predominates
IN the dispensing medium, tinging it with
its own peculiar hue.
As are the colors Of our minds, so are
our views Of life, it's realities and localities.
Perhaps the ray is golden, and the mind
dwells in q comfortable world Of pleasure,
ease and sentiment; perhaps 1t has lurld
glow and We are fanatics, revolutionists,
slaves of passion; now and then one catch
est the blue and exists in region Of pure
thought and fancy. One fears illusion, and
tells US, "'Tis world Of granite and hard
fact;" he chains the fancy which would il
lumine and witty the outward reality or
inward thought, seeing not that tho mind
does not TEST in any actually that the
largest fact, the most perfect beauty which
nature offers, is valuable mainly in sug-
gestion; that the imagination. going be-
yond the perception Of sense, toward tho
limiuess gives the "splendor in the grass,
the glory in the flower" Another fears
facts and chains the reason; VIC hear from
him of the materialistic tendencies Of this
scientific age which chill poetic and relig
ious thought. Does he forget upon what
foundation the poet raises anthems and
epics? that from knowledge of the rel
alive, the seer constructs philosophy of
the absolute =? From larger facts and
congratulations we shall not need to fear
poorer results. Countless are those who
fetter the spiritual energies of the soul, by
unquestioniRg acceptance of inherited
creeds and codes, az containing the highest
wisdom and the final truth. The fret are
crystalized faiths the second, crystalized
morals, and from the very nature of things
can contain no vital principle, for life is
change; organic tissues never assume the
crystalline form. Concentration is the hard
master of some minds, and for them, be it
idea, aim or friend the wide world holds
but one. Do not cons Of time and infinite
spaces speak Of the boundless wealth and
extent OF the universe, and suggest that
life is or ought to be many-sided? Others
rid themselves Of all responsibility in the
world of thought and action by imposing it
upon temperament or circumstances they
sign an ignoble treaty in which fate i'm
poses all the conditions, and are forever
ruled by her terms. But whether it be
fact o. fancy, custom or condition, the men
tai field Of vision is bounded on every side
by the dominant idea; the mind which
should have the range of the universe is
chaiaed to single thought, within reach Of
the fullness Of life doomed to inevitable
death ; enthusiasm Of youth, the spontane-
Gus product Of overaowing vitality, is sue
ceeded BY low estimates Of life, ennui, ex.
elements generous sympathies give place
to narrowing interests, to growing preju-
dioss, which find naturally expression in
An inquieitorial and prosecuting spirit
Objects Of thought and belief are viewed
from single standpoint, and that deter
miued, it may be, by chance, by custom,
or ~ self interest. The process of reason
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