The Virginia star., 1878-05-11

no man viii acquire them until he makes vi
his mind that he has need OF tbem.
Allnature, in its development. responds t
the requiromentr fixed 10 Its ,species-th
cedar 10 its perpetual green, the oak and elm
reach their allotted growth by meas of uni
yersaI cause. Nan, no less the subject o
fxed condition, attains the universality Of h
finite maturity by development In coutac
with his fellow-msn in all that pertains te
reason in its broadest Significance. Freedom
to all people means to act, move, labor ant
take part in all that is lawful to be done N
the busy world around Us. Plow, SOW, reap
save, and educate your children in the best
schools at your command. q II. Ill 10
Che twout uthings that are 10 really make Us
part of the nation are education and labor
Labor, in whstever form il may present it.
SELF, is the root of wealth. and wealth COM
bined with education is power whose united
influence can only be estimated BY the effects
they produce in shaping a peoples destinies.
Our children, therefore. must not only have
the education which books afford, but their
hands must be educated also. Parents should
observe the bent Of their children's mind and
have them learn trades for which they are
fitted; for it is evident you cannot make a
silyer-smith out of boy who is inclined to be
huckster; nor can you make a successful
farmer out of the boy who was born to follow
| the sea. at A s
| If boy is not put to that trade which he
has the capacity to learn and understand with
ready facility, he will ,inevidenty go through
the world outside of his sphere, never fulfill
ing the destiny for which God has made him =.
The reason why New Ensiand produces so
many men of power and influence in the va
ried walks of life, is, parents there study
closely the tendencies of their children and i,
whatever may be their condition in life, they
put them to the trades for which they show
capacity to learn, whether it be farmer, team
ster or carpenter. o .t.
The maxim there is, boy never will be
man of destiny outside of the inclination Of
his mind. / was called upon some years ago
to find men who could discharge the DUTIES of
certain kind of work as mechanics, near
Richmond, and after recommending quite
number most all Of them turned out failures,
from the fact that they had never prosecuted
their trades to any degree of perfection, only
in make-shift sort Of way.
But now, friends, the future of both the Ia
Dor and laborers is to be very different in the
South to what it has been In the past-both
must be of higher order; wages will be
higher aud work better, according as the arti-
sans shall perfect their trades. I"
The Arts aud Sciences follow the growth
and advancement of free Institutions; and
wherever men, with their money, carry their
mechanisms, mechanics must be had, and if
they are not found in communities where
work is to be done, then corporations with
capital will import them and those of US
who will not now heed the necessities of the
coming future in this respect. will have the
opportunity afforded them in few years of
seeing the great industries that slavery choked
out of the South, springing up along the
banks of every mill-stream and in every city,
while their children whose education and
trade are now neglected, will be, in conse-
quence of this neglect, the idle lookers-on in
the doors and windows of the workshops of
the State as they are now, having made no
pregress from the condition in which slavery
left them.
The workshops and the plow are twin bro
thers, inseperable to the existence of man.
Rittenhousc, the great astronomer, while pur-
suing his occupation as farmer calculated the
eclipses on his plow-hande. Guildford worked
his first problem in mathematics when cob
bler's apprentice upon small scraps of leather
which he beat smooth for that purpose. Fer
guson, the great thinker, made his wooden
clocks, that accurately measured the hours,
by means Of a common pen-knife, tool
which every boy can own, and especially
those who attend school now w-a-days. He also
laid himself down in the fields at night on a
blanket and made q map of the heavenly bo-
dies by means of thread with small beads
on it stretched between his eyes and the stars.
Opel, when asked by what wonderful process
he mixed his celors, answered: +" mix them
with my brain.' Benjiman West, who cap
tivated those who visited his studios by his
paintings made his first brushes out of q cats
tail. You know that " bad workman never
has good tool" but If the ancients, in the
dark ages of the past, accomplished so much
in their time, without the aid of school mas
tiers, what prgrcess ought our youth make
who have no. only free-schools but all the
modern appliances OF education that the hui
man brain has invented for their impr ove-
ment -@f. G .t
God has problem for the solution of every
race, and it may be that the colored boy is
already born in the county of Albermale who
will yet produce the long - art, perpetual
motion, or how to navigatela balloon against
an adverse current of air.. = 80 /
DE Sun DO MoyE-DE EARTH AM
Sou UARE."-Rev. John Jasper, pastor of
the Sixth Mount Zion (colored) Baptist
Church, Richmond Va, who has become
so,nawhot notorious from his peclliar |