The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

people. There are great things IN store
for the South if We move forward wisely,
and by intelligent methods. But there
are some practical lessons now waiting
to be learned The blighting moral in
iirmities that have come TO some of our
people from their poverty, that grinding
and relentless foe to real progress, should
be cured. A. depressed and unhealthy
moral state of public sentiment, the re-
mote and ultimate effect in great meas
ue of former bad government and dis
orded condition of political dfairs,
should be resisted and overcome, and
we should encourage and cultivate the
return of q national sentiment
In this great work OF the education of
a people, in relation to public and polit-
ical morals, there is 10 force more potent
than the newspaper press with its thou
sand tongues. These editors OF newspa-
pers are essentially educators of men--a
high and responsible calling, affecting.
the reputation of individuals, the inter
ests of communities, the welfare of States.
often the existence Of nations. They
create as often as they reflect public sen
tlment and opinion. Potent for good or
potent for evil, they can in Il great degree
educate downward OF educate upward
Many discharge this trust intelligently,
conscienciously, with an earnest desire
to elevate their fellows: using their pens
honestly only in honest causes; accepting
the frowns of tickle public rather than
| desert the battle-flag of Truth. These
are true soldiers in the battle of life.
But there are others who use the errors,
and ignorance, and vices Of the public as
so many stepping stones in their own
selfish fortunes. Let us hope they are
few.
! Every human being to whom God has
given will and an intellect superior to
Others is an educator aforce, in society,
for good or for evil. And, it can be tru-
ly said that every one makes an impress
on the happiness or fortunes Of those
around him the circle of influence may
be large, or it may beyery small. Every
single atom and creature in the world
has its dual life, and its existence in re-
lation to others. When this great truth
is contemplated We may readily perceive
what important Responsibilities given
to the least of us.
Labor and trouble are given to us.
Without the one, there would be no e1-
cellence. without the other. no real ham
piness. And laboris sweet. because if
is given to us, and because it inherently
brings its reward, all in its own good
time A German philosopher has said.
and there is a profound pathos in the
thought: owe live three score years,
OF three score wears and ten. and the de-
light of our life is labor and trouble. "
Therefore. in this life of labor. in the
personal task of providing for personal
wants. and in the more complex, and to
society the more important one Of mov-
inc the mass OF mankind forward. or
contributing his pro-rata to this end. it
is Of prime necessity that the individual
sbould not mistake the kind of work that
is sllited to his capabilities.
Mr.. Carlyle in his original and vigorous
slyle has said "Not what I have. but
/ what do is my KINGDOM. To each is
tiycn CERTAIN inward 'talent, a certain
outward environment OF fortune; to each
I l,v wigeet combinations Of these two a
! certain maximum ofcapabjlity. But the
hardest problem was ever this, to fnd
bv study of Yourself, and Of the ground
Won stand on what vourcombined inward
/ and outward capabilitv specially is.
Tins in a whole imbroglio of fcapabilities
we 90 rropinq about to grasp which is
Ours and often clutch the wrong one
/ in this mad work must several Years Of
our small term be spent tilltha purblind
youth by practice acquire notions of dis
/ lance. and become seeing man. Nay
3 l.,
ever new expectation, ever new disap-
pointment, shift from enterprise and from
side to side. till at length as exasperated
/ striplings of three score-and-ten they
shift into their last enterprise that OF
1 gettinq-buried.
/ These latter are what the world calls
4 the failures of life. Poor fellows not
wanting in education, in intellect, with
ever so earnest a desire to work, lacking
in something, nobody knows what,
hopelessly driftless ending only in get
Some years ago one OF them lawyer
OF university honors, OF intellect, gentle,
man Of good habits, died OF pride and
starvation, in seedy black clothes, IN
garret in London The world is beeom-
ing vitality interested In decreasing those
failures, and in having the aggregate OF
capabilities utilized to the highest point
and worked in the right direction. This
is certainly an important part OF educa-,
ton to discover this right direction, and
equip the individual Tor hls special work.
Take him to develop if you can
And hcw out the block, and get out the man."
So far as the education of the stelner
SEX the Lords of creation" +" is concern
ed. the principles and methods of modern
civilization are well settled the system
NAV be modified but the essential prin-
cipies are well understood to mean the
utmost possible grasp and expansion Of
al 59' tbe iptSiIecfuei IL I p6wers in every de-
i t,a r'oiGepai of iettors poMae scienee "
and art, All possible spbo.-o Of
and ,I al al rossihfe cell ANS lou2L.
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