The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-16

lie sat by the way side, or hcsitatingl the
gate of city. Hcsitating again, and
turning TO Rev. Mr.. Whitaker Which was
it, Mr.. Whitaker"
Mr.. Whitaker. --"By the waysidc.'
Mr.. Dwell, | wasn't sure. You see
turning to the school | am not rs clear as
/ might be in my knowledge Of the script
ures. Laughter, My biblical education
was evidently also somewhat neglected
when went to school. Laughter.
"Bartimcus sat Ivy the waysidc begging
lie had been blind from his birth. He had
heard all the sounds of nature, but he knew
not what they meant The voices
oil father, mother, sister and brother
had been music in his ears, but he had
never looked upon human face. lie had
listened to the songs Of birds, the rustling
OF leaves, the ripping Of water, the fall Of
rain in showers and storms, the murmur of
the ocean IN is unrest and the roar of its
wrathiul waves; but he had never looked
at naturc-.had never seen the morning In
its loveliness, midday in It's glory, twilight
in its beauty or night with its splendos. lie
stood in the darkness OF blindness wonder.
ing. One day so the book says---the
SAVIOR opened the eyes Of this blind man,
and he saw,aw the beauty Of the sun
light, and Of the clouds floating above the
world, and Of the landscape with its woods,
fields, flowers, cities and moving beings.
The change was amazing. cannot de-
scribe the emotions that must have flooded
the heart Of Bsrtimeus. | do not wonder
that he followed Jesus in the way.
"lIow shall apply this For what pur-
pose have told you Of this miracle TO
impress upon your minds the great bless.
ings education is confering upon you--to
show you how it opens the eyes OF the
mind.
The ignorant man IL an intellectual Bar.
tmcus lie site by the wayside of pro.
grcss and neither sees nor compre-
hends facts lie j. intellectually blind.
He knows nothing Of the beauties of
the world. He sees with the natural
eye but hc does not understand
"A primrose by the rivers brlm
4 yellow primrose II ~ hin
And lite nothing more,
Education gives 10 him the faculty OF com
pretending, 1t opens the eyes Of his mind,
and enables him to see greater beauties in
nature than Bartimrus saw when hc looked
for the first time upon the glory OF light
and the wonders Of the world IL clothes
every ohjec' with new meaning. 1t exa!ts
the primrose into importance, 1t enables
man to
Find tongues. IN trees book. in the running brook,
Sermonr In stones, and good In everything
"Education-cycn the elementary cduca.
ton you are receiving in this schools
doing this work Tor you, is opening your
intellect 10 a comprehension Of facts and
things. The schoolnastcr annoints the
eyes Of your mind 50 that all the wonders
Of the natural world, of government, of
science, Of philosophy, Of art, Of literature
and Of human nature may in good
time be made manifest to you. Applause.
He does more. He even teaches
those who have been blind from their birth,
as Bartimeus, 10 understand what they can
not sec, and those who have never heard
sound to comprehend what they cannot
hc.r. At jacksonville, sometime ago in
the asylums for the Blind and the Deaf and
the Dumb saw the blind reading with
their hands and hearing with their eyes /;
and then concluded that the sChoolmastcr
was q miracle workcr--that the wonder Of
the waysdc miracle Of the first century was
in a manner finding repetition in the work
Of the schoomaster Of the nintccnth
"From all this | have concluded that the
schoolmostrr is the most influential if not
/ the mos, conspicuous parsonage Of the time.
H. j, more influential that the soliicr, or
/ the newspaper editor or the parson.
In this country he is in fact
the mouldcr Of public opinion.
He bends the twig and thus iuciincs ;hc
tree lie supple. thu fountains that run ia
/ little riyuIcts from their places OF obscur.
ity and blonding swell into the glra, river
7 OF the public mind on which tioat all the
hopes Of the Republic "Lct me make the
ballads Of the people and care not who
maAcs their laws, said Bc0ngcr; hut he
! who has - knowledge of the source from
which flow the public influences now most
; potent will no, hesitate in saying "Lat me
make the school books Of the people and
care not who makes either their ballads
or their laws" II is true the ballad.makcr
1 is set powerful and the !awmakcr strong.
hat the s4hoDlmastcr l. uirOad u0w and it
is h. who givra tone 20 the thu poets voice
and rolur> the stitCSnnu- mind He il,