Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28

ridicule or unca led-for severity. The
Ounce Of the school can be converted
into a handwriting student by a
kind word, after floggings have fail.
ed; the dullard be made an eager
learner by encouragement, when all
other devices known to the profess
ion have been found useless; and
the laggard in the race can be sp T.
red into competition by Il smile, when
the unsuccessful rod has been laid
aside. Honest, persistent, and ear
nest effort, in kindly way, will win
! for the teacher success in the voca-
ton that will come no other way. 1t
is SO in all the varied forms Of life.
1t is true in the nursery Of the home,
and true IN the nursery Of the school.
a kind word IA soft answer-will
sometimes form character INTO no
billty. and useflln IS, that would
otherwise sink into the slough Of de-
spond, and be lost in the mire of
crime and ignorance. can pick
out such, who taught me, when Il boy,
and their classes tiourishe | accord
ing ly.
Wei do | remember the rattan in
the hands Of the hasty and forbidding,
and the VOWS Of vengeance that
would have often become realities,
but that the boy is weaker than the
man.
The scholar is no; an enemy, that
every post should be guarded and
sentried, lest the exuberance of
youth burst forth. The classroom is
not i battlefield, save for the good
contentious Of intellect, where mind
against mind shall flash out the
bright thoughts of cultured genius.
lie Is IN embryo man, and his teach
cr should bt his best friend. And
friendship is joy, and sunny teach
cr is II joyous friend. His mind is in
your keeping, that you shall culture
II, ana foster it, and develop it-a
flower to bud and bloom and blossom
under your care, till, in the beauty of
It's deve opment, its fragrance per-
meatcs the air around, and spreads
high and holy influence to the outer
most circle, blessing you and your
work, or hangs on the stem litcless,
wlthcred thing, devoid of both
beauty and fragrance, a monument to
your indiscretion or want OF heart.
DO not think for moment that |
deem the classroom the place for
merrlmcnt, or the study hour the
time for jokes. Nay, | believe in
discipline firm and steady, but the dis
cipline of affection, and | find far bet
ter dlscipllnarlans among my sunny
friends, than among those bears who
snarl, and growl, and show their
teeth at every circumstance that rut:
files them.
Are there such among you? There
were once. Those who believed the
chief end of the pedagogue to be to
tlog his scholars and drive knowledge
to the brain through the medium of
the back, or drop it into singing
palms from the end of rod. | DENY
1t. This world is not Il waste wild
ernes. 1t is Gods acre, wherein are
blooming flowers that will be radiant
with the brightest beauty in the gar
dens above. j is not "A vale of
tears, save to those who would make
it 50. 1t is the great and glorious
thought OF God, whose name is Love.
1t is the echo OF that voice that went
over the waste OF waters in the far off
misty creation. 1t is the world that
was evolved from God by God, upon
which He looked and was satisfied,
rs it sung its birth anthem Of graft
tudc and praise. 1t is Il light and
beautiful world, filled with love and
loving hearts, with heroes and hero
ines, with good noble men and wo-
men 1t is the bright and beautiful |
threshold to the better world up above |
the clouds, where the angels dwell !
and sing, and the sun always shines,
and the flowers bloom, aud the child
rem are aIl JOY an / happiness.
lake 1t thus Ill your hearts, and |.
when you stand before your classes
remember it, and they will catch
from You at least the reflection of
your JOY, and be joyful with you.
You cannot always praise, and /
without IN effort you cannot always
be happy; but let your praise be fire.
qu"nt, your blame judicious. | would
have even your censure mixed with
praise. Seek for words Of commcn-
dalion and reward, and SO mix the
IN .diclne, sometimes necessarily CIV
en-, with honey, that though the dis
case he reached, the patient flinches
not at the dose. The repuISive pills
of the olden profession have given
place to the susar-coated ones of the
ncw-the dose is less mauscous, the
benefit greater.
(CohciudeQ nert 7ceek.)