Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
Edited and Conducted by
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Submission to the authority of Law.

government Oh Jaws. All our people
should therefore be accustomed, from
their earliest years, to submit to the au
thority OF law to submit, not BY compul
sion, but voluntarily. This is one strong
reason why authority should be establish
cd, AMI laws strictly observed, Ia every
school. In this respect, school mast 6s q
preparation for the Society of the world
1t should be the object of every teacher, il
his or her system of government. 10 form
the habit of obeying the law because it Il
just law, and because it is for the common
good.
Another fundamental principle 10 bein-
calculated is, love Of Truth, and the habit
Of respecting it. Children should bc
taught, as early as possible, to feel how
mean, base, loathsome, cowardly, aud
wicked thing falSehood is, and how no
bic, generous, and glorious it is always TO
tell the truth. Nothing is SO important
to the future character of child as that il
should have the right feeling, and, built
upon the feeling, and growing out of It,
the right habit in regard TO truth and
falsehood rhe first requisite, my fellow
teachers is, that you y0,'rssj should have
an adherence OF ialsehood. Remcmbcr,
that every deception, tho matter oi what
kindl is lie, and, ii prac;iced upon pa
pil, Injuries and tends to destroy the NOR
al sense oi t nj pupil. You should not al
low yourself or your pupils 10 use exag
gerat.on. or spsak in extravagant language.
Peys rs OF little cOnscientiousness will be
likely TO think sIch practices OF slight
consequence. Children are often driven
to falsehood by lear That must be bad
system of government, in family. or u d.
school, which urges children to have re
course TO ialse ehood 10 avoid punis. mant.
You rs teacher should avoiu amy ap
prOach 10 it, you should uniformly teach
that f.slsehood is worse than any other Of
fcnsr of which chiidfca can be guilty.
To raise yourselves still higher in the
scale OF your calling. you must reverence
aud worship the invisible Being who has
created, anu who preserves you. Ii is the
highest distinction and the most precious
God, and 10 do something to lead oilers
TO worship him and reverence his Jaws
This distinction and this privilege, in
their widest extent, belong 10 the teacher
and it Is for him or her to do and to leach
The teacher must ill his or her soul with
alteration OF the Infinite Father, and must
begin every day with God. Make no pre-
tensions to sanctity, bat do it seriously
and in earnest, else let it alone. The
deadiest offence against Heaven, against
your own soul and against the souls OF
your pupils, is hypocrisy.
Every occasion that presents itself in
the course of the day must be used to
awaken AMI strengthen the sentiment of
reverence. Formal lectures will do no
good. There must bc the feel lg of rev.
erence in what is said. The institutions
of religion should always be spoken of
with respect. On the subject OF religion,
we as teachers should respect the opin-
ions of others, even when we differ from
them. The feeling of reverence is exleE
ded to the moral law, and it should be
also extended to the laws of the intellect
and of the body. Ii we, as teachers &C
knowledge God to be the author of both,
they are all His laws, and to be obsyed
as such.
Here my fellow-teachers opens new
series OF duties. You are tn study these
laws, to observe and teach them. Yeu
are to explain them to your pupils, and
thus enliyiiten your conscience in regard
to them, SO that they shall consider it no
less really part of duty to keep the body
in health, and 10 exercise and improve all
the faculties of the mind, than to observe
the laws of the Decalogue. l say that a
new series Of duties here opens u the
teacher. because great many persons
speak and &C; as if they thought that the
laws that relate 10 the body and the mind
were not Gods laws, and to violate them
were not disobedience to him.
have thus spoken of our duties as
moral teachers. This am bound to do.
am not at liberty to do lekk To multi
tudes Of our pupils We are the only teach
ers of moral truth. Unless they get a
sense of their moral duties from US, they
will not get il at I'll. And holding, as
do, that mans moral and religious nature
Is the highest part of his nature, / must
bold that teacher has no right topeglec'
the cultivation of this part of the nature
ct his or her pupils. This is vastly the
most important part of their education
the most important 10 themselves and To
the community. and for their whole future
existence. 1t is more important to
mans self that he should be an uprigh
and conscientious man, than that be SHOULD
be an intelligent, a skiltul, or Learned
man. And tits, beyond measure, NOR
important Tn fha CON, r,,,r,;tx ord egDtcial