, 1877-07-14

'VISlIe influences must smile on n To aid
There must BE- helping hand. srrr,chrd
out in this great work, or the upmlding
"' the man cannot 60 on. The proycr,
lone man, no man. tenchrs the truth Z;
man sHregorious IN nd shurprns mind ::
Isolated he is nothing The knowledge
OF the ages; the truths discovered aud
established IN the past; HE srw dr,lnc
''ons OF th" long, pati"nt, ,oius ccn,u.
rlcs mast minister in this work.
But there nrc others vino rrsnld moral
cultur. IN school as a waste of time. A
sad mistake Were asked how one
should begin TO make boy g,cat
scholar, or fit him for great work of any
sort in lite, would say cultivate his
moral nature. There IS IA direct au mti-
mate connection hetwrtn Ignorance and
lmmorIity. | never me, low, base
villain vino did not hate good learning
as bitterly MS all other good things
never knew pure heart hut lnyrd hooks
and tue light of Knowledge. These
things seem Ms instincts. l never knew
boy. however bright and ambitious.
who fell n,o evil practices, who found
hls way into low company, to cigar
stands, to whisky saloons. to the dice
box but he lost all his taste for study.
all desire to excel. Asa boy grows up
into manhood without tia refining and
restraining influence 0f morality, he he
comes sell willed and insolent, unuycly
and unloving in hs disposition, nor is
there anything in him TO appeal TO or
work upon. How often in my life have
seen capable and promising youths go
so sadly tn ruin because their moral ma
ture had been lett unCultivated and thus
themselves left helpless prey to every
temptation ct the world. So I say he.
gin, coGtine and end with morality.
You would understand the value OF
training IT you saw boy learning to
catch basc ball. He generally takes
the first in his eye, the second on tue
end Of his nose, the third on the buck of
his head and the fourth in his mouth
That is lesson number one. Then he rests
Tor twenty tour hours. II be has what
boys call grit he takes number two the
nexI day with, perhaps, result little dif-
ferent. But it he sticks to il he learns.
As che ioggle End lahorer says to Mr..
Crauley IN one OF Trollope's novels, "Its
dogged us it does It," Exercise repeated
- action, habit. skill, There is the order
in any s.,sJf education, whether 1t be
the blscks,uth's arm, the logician's acu
men, tue speakers ready words or the
brave maa's power "to tell the truth and
shame the devil,' the process is The same,
iescie ageSdO. There is the whole theory
of education and the whole secret of
success. There is a great deal of talk
about education. That is the practical
most practical which creates the most
strength and skill. For this is whut life
requires.
Life do not ask what il might be,
or Whist it should be; but what it is.
Alasl q sore rial, II hsrd-fOught battle,
struggle where muscle must strain and
nerve writhe in anguish, where the brow
is bathed in sweat and the lungs toll in
suffocating gasps, where the heart aches
sometimes grows faint and dies. Life I!
sort of lshnGlitish thing your hand
against every man and every mans hand
against you. Yes, and thick as the cir.
cumambient air--the beings Ot an Unseen
world. Principalites and powers,
thrones and dominions, spiritual wicked
ness exalted to place OF commanding
might-Gll set against us TO hinder US
from success. What does life require in
body, mind and soRl2 Power and skill
to use it promptly. Power comes from
traiaing. Power comes from effort upon
effort. 1t comes from trying though it
be only to fail and failing only to try
again, and as the giant IN the fable gath.
ering new strength for each fall, so from
every failure we get power to try better
in the next struggle. BY use of every
power comes more power aud also skill to
use it better.
Our work, then, is tU train the whole
man, to develop all his faculties. l am
aware Of the other view, which regards
cducnton as merely the iurnishing OF Il
icw tools for work hereafter Il nlwavs