The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-02-20

ourselves kneeling at our mothers knee
in the long ago, her sweet hands tracing
out to us the percepts of the good old
Book of God-her soft-toned voice like
songs of the redeemed and saved in
heaven, comes floating down the years
and into the little hour in which we now
live, with cAdences of love and hope.
So, we conceive, should education of
the individual be directed, its first and
controlling impulses given at the fire.
side, where our laws detain the child
man during the most impressionable
yeriod of his life, and these evoked and
impressed by love in right methods of
instruction and discipline. So taught
and trained, the school and college may
take up energies already directed, that
will grow not downward into oblivion,
but upward and outward into Gods pure
sunlight, to blossom and bear fruit
through the ages.
Industrial education is more or less
the results of individual education in
practical forms and the mechanical arts
Philosophy tells us of the two sub
stances in man-body and spirit. The
soul works ont all the forms that please
the eye and the useful things that min
.ster to the senses of sight, and sound
and feeling. The most wonderful in
strument in the creation of these mira
cles is the hand. One has said: "Man's
superiority over animals is not altogether
in the something called a soul, but in
bringing round the fifth finger and MAX
ing thumb opposed to the other FOUR
and on this right angular meeting rest
all architecture and art that have embel-
lished the centuries. The hand Think
for moment what Il mighty instrument
it is 1t built Babel and Cheops, and
the Colosseum and the Atlantic cable.
So minute and nice its craft that for
| ages the Geneva vase was considered a
solid emerald. You will linger till i
tell the legend: 1t was supposed to
have been presented by the queen of
Sheba to Solomon, and was the same
cup out of which the Savior ate the
last supper, and it was sure death to
any who touched it, except to Catholic
priest. Napoleon captured and carried
it to France, and the scholars of the in
stitute decided it was no stone at all
but curious work of the hand Cicero
relates that he had seen the Iliad written
on skin so that it could be folded up
in nutshell. Nero's ring had a gem
upon it through which he watched the
swOrd-play of the gladiators, and, nc
doubt too, the faces of the Roman beau
ties who graced those inhuman butcher
les with their presence. The Damascus
blade could be bent point to hilt and
put into a scabbard like corkscreW
and bent every way without breaking,
like lady's neck taking the set of hel
new bonnet in pier mirror.
Think what men have been skillfu
with the hand: Washington the sur
veyor, Lincoln the rail-splitter, Hugh
Miller the stone-cutter, Burritt the
blacksmith, Henry Wilson the shoe
maker. The hand is artist, poet, builder
musician. Hunt threw away the brush
aud rubbed his paints on aud off his
canvas with his wonderful thumb.
Michael Angelo carved. Theodor,
Thomas executes his multiform min
strelsy with the hand. Napoleon used
to say his army was his outstretche(
hand. We give the hand in love and join
it to its mate in marriage. We holdit NJ
in our courts Of justice to mark the sol
emnity of our oaths. IT plants the land
mark, casts the ballot, affixes the seal
of office, passes title deeds, and, accord
ing to Leibnitz, affirms the Christian
doctrine of the souls immortality whe1
it puts the sign manual to the last viii
and testament. Like the hand on tn,
dial, it may be golden or an iron one
but if true one it points to what o'clocl
the soul is as the time goes by.
Industrial education preserves and
keeps the harmony between the spiri
and body. The soul rarely develops in {
musty old cask of body. Proper sou
development is the attendant of physica
development We are not speaking o
athletic development of the body, bu
functional development. The memory
of the muscle has ingenuities and per
formances as widely useful and wonder
full as those of the mind, and its cultur,
is equally elaborate and manifest
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