The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-08-11
For the Hartford Herald.
EDUCATION.
By JUNO.

Numerous are tire men who have been
deprived of an educational advantage
through Indifference Of parents, who were
able to have given their children the
knowledge they so much desired; who in
childhood had pictured to themselves the
great ACHIEVEMENTS they would make in
after life, but, alas when they arrived at
the years Of maturity, they found their
knowledge inadequate to enable them to
ever reach their destined goal, and are
consequently forced to attain to some OBJ
iect Of lesser magnitude, which they often
fall far short of reaching, ever having an
insatate thirst for something higher; and,
with this desire unsatisfed, they live, but
to no purpose, and finally pass away, I'M
known to fortune and to fame-a mere
bubble cast upon the shores of time for a
while, and vanisheth forever; and all
through the negligence of parents to edu-
cate them.
The man who pUrsues the agricultural
calling finds an education Of vast benefit.
1t enables him to better familiarize him-
self with his business; with cultivated
mind he can better cultivate his soil; it
learns him when and how to SOW his seeds
that they may yield MIN the richest har-
vest; it fits him to more fully appreciate
the beauteous works of nature in wander
ing over his domains; to look with inter-
est upon the the most minute insect he
happens to find; he watches more intently
the growth of the tniest sprig that bursts
from the soil and grows to stupendous
hight; every grain ofwheat, oats, and corn,
with its prolifc'growth, seems to peculiar
ly attract him; and upon everything that
has being he seems TO gaze with pleas
ure and admiration. And when his day S
labor has ended, and he has returned to
his family, he feels qualified to instruct
the youthful minds Of his children, who
never grow weary of listening, and their
happy beaming countenances spread a
halo of lustre around him, which wildly
presents itself in after years, long after he
has discharged his duty towards his chill
dren, upon whom he now looks with joy
and pride.
A minister of God should be educated,
that he may more fully divine the teach
ings of Holy Writ, and better interest and
promulgate the marvellous words of God,
spoken to man to make him a better
being, and TO qualify him for the enjoy
ment of eternal happiness.
The doctor, whose philanthropic heart
prompts him TO seek profession in which
he may minister to his feIIow-man, in as
sisting nature to dispel from his system
the many loathsome diseases, should be
a man of knowledge in more than that OF
his profession, for he is expected to be the
family counsellor among his vast number
of patrons, to be looked up to in all mat
tiers ofimportance; and for his mind to be
stored with knowledge like this, it has to
be cultivated in youth, for as his body
grows, so must his mind continually ex-
pand. and have a capacity for receiving
and retaining in memory's casket knowl-
edge relative to mans every requirement
in life, but without this education he can
never be truly successful.
SO it is with every calling in life, and
hence, parents should give TO their chill
dren the education they require, that they
may be enabled to pursue the callings
they so much desire, and not to think
for a moment that, though Newton and
others Of rcnown, whose wonderful achiev
ments will ever be revered by all, and
who as "a child gathering pebbles on the
sea~shore," were always collecting fact:
and adding them together, in this way
filling their minds with extensive inform.
alton and giving it to the world for its ed
fication; though such men as these LIVED
and became famous in the worlds history
without the early culture Of their MUD:
| in a school-room, that children of thes,
latter days can do SO; for minds as wei
as times have changed, and we find no
where now, that men who have beer
blessed with all the educational facilitie
of the day, are able to compete will
Franklin and others; and imagine for {
moment what these men cOnld have done
had these blessings been theirs
Parents, educate your children; it is re
qured of you, and it is the greatest for
tune you can give them. 1t will fit then
for all callings in life the more they learl
/ the more love will abound in their heart
towards you; a more charitable spirit vii
possess them; love to do good for eyi
will animate them; it will fit them for so
cety, will prevent them from seeking
companions in the ten-by-ten grogshop
that infest our land, and are found it
every little town and hamlet; they vii
| forsake pla ces of vice and immortality
and grow up to be men wh'
seek the higher callings of life, and learl
to love Him who died for their redemp
ton.
Build school houses, and instruct YOU
children, and the evil, selfish disposition
that now pervades our land will disap
pear, and a feeling of friendship an,
brotherly love will abound, and your chill