Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-12-09

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to royal race.
There can be no doubt as to our
duty in the way of respecting and
honoring our Teachers. 1t is dnty
which we not only owe to ourselves
we owe it to society, and to our
country.
From all that has been said we
may also gather some idea IS to the
character of the education to be i'm
parted. This should be an educa-
ton calculated to fit us for the life,
which in such country, we are to
live. There are some things which
we all-no matter what our calling is
to be--need in common. We all
alike stand in need of what we style a
Primary education; though we may
differ in our views as to what studies
are necessarily primary. Neverthe-
less one thing is patent to every
mind, no matter what our condition
or station in life-that these are
.sTruths, on which depend our main con-
That It's our shame and mi sery not to
iearn," g.
and which "shine by the side of every
path we tread"
The "lifting po,cer' of these
truths, like that of certain seed bur
led deep beneath the walls of old cas-
ties, is truly wonderful. 1t has been
estimated that the "lif:ing po'ce'"
of acertain species of seed, as its
power is developed, is equal TO that
of 5000 lbs. And we need not en-
dorse any notion of metempaychosis
or transmigration of the soul, and
so suppose this puny seed as it raises
the burdens placed upon it, to have
become by some strange process, the
coffin of some son of Anak, who had
once defied the armies of Israel; or,
that we only behold in its prodigious,
4 silent efforts, simply the dying
struggles of some blind Samson in
the temple of his tormentors. The
power of any primary truth, proper
iv instilled into the mind, is more
wonderful than this. BY its own in
herent forces, in which no son OF
Anak can share, it is moulding the
world into shape, as by q perpetual
miracle, for which the great God
holds every man and woman responsi-
: BILE. Physical or mechanical power
we can compute-we can measure it
by weight or bv line-but, ., the
moral forces of which we speak
.would battle the arithmetic of the
; tallest angel. And we move among
these forces as the plannets move in
their respective spheres.
These forces have, under God,
been placed in our own hands As Il
solemn and vet joyous trust. In our
various capacities, it is our privilege
to train- tall trees aud grace them
with every variety of vines for this
garden of our American civilization
! we may place noble crowns upon
noble citizens which we ourselves
have made; or, neglecting our duty
we may twist the sapling il
the earth, and leave the thriced
gnarled oak to tell of us for ages tC
come.
Some of these forces are brought
to bear upon us the moment we come
| into being. 1t is said that the i'm
preston produced upon blind man,
: when first restored to sight, by the
l moon and the stars, is an impression
b, that never leaves him. What the i'm
t pressions of Adam we're when he
: awoke out of that deep sleep-ol
what our own when we first woke and
). found ourselves in a mothers arms
c we will not attempt to describe. But
:, we are reminded of certain powers
s and influences like the sweet iniiu
: ences of the Pleiades, which are evel
= felt. and which no man can resist
e Go where we may there are memo
ries. which, if we have spark o
" manhood left, bar the power OF temp
tation-lift us over the rugged edges
It of life. and make the hills and th(
y mountains less difficult. And the
} more pure, educated, and refined this
), influence, the more potent does it be
= come. Mothers, as the centres OF ou
l. homes, WELD a power such as Casa
l. never possessed; and the thought I'm
y presses itself upon me, that, for wis
Il nurposes, the great God has caused
Vt moral influences, as distingulshe'
e from those that are physical, to de
+, scend upon us through those chan
Of ncls where they can be more imme
,r diately felt and produce a more last
Of inc effect. We have a remarkable Il
er lustration of our position in tn
Adams family-certainly one of tn
a. most remarkable and honored ofall til
he families that our country has ever PR
Of duced-and of which Mrs. Adams, tn
j. wife of John, was the acknowledge
r centre and support. "All that lam,
" said her, son John Quincy, 81 owe
Ii. nv motherw. l recall long list
ct great and good and honored names
III and from their mothers they all Do
r. row such a grand and sacred lustr
Ia that we lose sight of their father
ut The mothers of the Wesleys and tn
,r- Edwardses-of Washington and
n. Jackson-and the mother OF job
y Newton and Macauley-yes, and I'll
he mother and grand mother of Time
rs tby. and the heroic mother of Nose
,te whose own spirit and hand could /
lie seen in all the wonderful life of thu
No. most wonderful of men; and Rut
lie too. the great grandmother of Davic
II and a host of still other great and n
oo BILE mothers still live and WELD
NV influence that will never perish fro
mt the earth. And then again recs
he one, left by the wayside as wall
he the child of Goddess and wicked p
mt rents, who instead of being plac'
no in some wholesome school by the a
til thorities, because no provision ha