Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06

and kindred, the affairs over which
Memory poured her kindling breath
OF devotion. Hope and Change
nave reversed all that. To-day lives
tor It's children. Tomorrow. and
not yesterday, inspires us; it is the
magic of the future and not the past
| that charms us. We act for what is
coming more than for what is 90
ing. "Let the dead bury the dead:"
| follow me-" is the voice Of orr
Leader from out of the everlasting
lite, perpetual birth-a perpetual
ascension. Education brings up the
harp OF Nature, already strong, to
consciousness. Education is the
self-revelation of Harmony written
IN the claw of the lnind.' Educa-
ton is the bringing of the latent
score of spiritual time and tone, and
volume and movement, into orches-
trail action. It is the striking of the
chimes Of eternal order in the bel
fries of the soul.
Joubelt says: "In bringing up
child, think of its old age" This
is only what a poet meant when he
said: "The child is father of the
man," and the evangelist, esfirst the
blade then the ear, then the full corn;'
and esus, "Ye must be born again."
The beginning is only the end an
ticipated; the end may be frustrated
if the beginning has it not in view.
The crown should rock the cradle.
The stars of immortality must shed
down their influence upon the des-
TIMES of time. Tutors from the
Kings court must tend the heir.
Here is the genius of Religion.
Nothing is more sacred than in
dividuality, specific differences make
| the definitions of us. Otherwise
| wheat and corn and grass would be
one. To each should be left his own
TYPE. That is the seal of his divine
origin, and should be respected.
Temperament, capacity, bent, adapt
ability, genius, force, weakness, all
must be kept in order. Otherwise
the career will be unhappy and the
end a failure.
Children need models, not critics.
The mild and gentle light of higher
personality is more insinuating than
the excathedra Of the schools. Twi-
light breaks the slumber and lifts
the lids; the sudden burst of noon
would be blindness. In the Orient
was the morning time of the world.
There was the childhood, the sym
bols, the dreams, the parallels. The
West thinks, questions, disputes,
acts.
When imagination was on the
throne, Gods came down to earth
and became men; when Reason
came to the throne, men arose and
] took their seats with the Gods. In
the childhood Of the world, heroes
and seers had Gods for their fathers
and virgins for their mothers; in the
manhood of the world, childish
things fade away. Incarnations and
Apotheoses are opposite extremes of
the same thing. This is splitting
the truth into two lessons. AS edu-
cation advances and the light of rea-
son chases away the shadows of i'm
agination and myth, the broken an
j alysis of the worlds mental impo-
tence shall give place to grand
synthesis of its waxing strength,
an the temple of truth shall rise
upon the solid foundation of fact
and reality, all the parts fitted to-
gether, harmonious and i'll order, a
thing of beauty and strength endur-
ing. One of the most thrilling in
SEPARATIONS Of the day, is. the clear
vision of this Temple, rising out of
the future, leaving all the fallen
scaffoldlng of dream and fiction for
ever behind, fit abode for God and
Man, Divine word spoken alike
by each.
The true purpose Of all govern
ments, schools, churches, institutions
and industries, is to educate the
world. And when Religion, and
Law, and Science, and Art, and
even the homely asiduities Of COM
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