The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-16


What pity he had to die so sooDl Moan
out the grief, o, bells of Westminster
Thank God for your books-books for
hard study, books to waft you into a rev.
cry, books to make you laugh. books to
make you weep. books in Morocco, in
satin, in gold-books of anecdote, of
travel, of memoir, OF legend-books col
umned, starred, wreathed, scrolled--
books about birds, about f4hes, about
animals, about insects-books for the
young, books for the old, books for all
peoples and all conditions OF mind.
What is that thunder 1t is ten Cylin'
der printing press of Harper and Serb.
ner and Appleton aud Lippincott and
Ticknor. Thunder again. This time it
is the swift revolving press of the. six
hundred and ssventy-eight dailies, and
of the five thousand six hundred and
thirty one weeklies of the United States,
You may not possess all these blessings
of parlor and drawing room and library
and dining hail. but you all know some
thing of the height and depth and length
and breadth of that sweet, tender, Joyous
and triumph INT word-"home." Look
not upon it merely as place to stay, as
the lion upon his lair, or the fox his
burrow, or the eagle his eyre. Call it
not your house, or residence or lodging;
but for the sake of your old father and
mother-whether here or translated
for the sake of childhood, for the sake of
the dead, for the SAKE that all that is
dear and near to you, call it "home."
To day gather your children together
open the musical instrument, if you
have one. If not, open your heart, and
let the Lord play upon it. 20, give
thanks unto the Lord, for He is good,
for His mercy erdureth foreVer!"
People of the Commonwealth Of New
York, and of the United States, l give
you congratulation. This is the bright
est Thanksgiving morning Of the CEN
tury. Let us thank God for our Church
individual Church, which is IN state OF
spiritual and financial prosperity we
have never before reached. Next to my
own religious hope and my own good
name, feel grateful for this magnificent
field to work in. Did any man ever have
more glorious opportunityP l never
lived among better people, and never
shall until reach Heaven. Since last
Thanksgiving Day we have received
more than seven handred souls into our
membership, and we have now in our
membership over twenty-five hundred
aud all working, as far as l know, to
bless the world; while our Sabbath
morning and Sabbath evening services
bring to the doors more than may enter,
The printing press treat me and my
church most genially. They used to
overhaul US most numerically. Every
body notices the change. But we have
come to understand each other better.
Perhaps we have improved; perhaps
they have improved; perhaps both have
improved. l think this last is the cor
rect statement And while they have to
kpeo fatherly look out for me person
ally, they give me wi !e audience in
which to preach the Gospel of my Mas.
ter, and so thank them while | thank
God.
Let US bless God for our city, our
churches, parks, our Mercantile Library,
our Academy of Music, our City Hall,
our delightful homes, our quiet Sundays,
Especially for our schools ought we to
be thankful ; our Packer and our PrOfes.
sor Vests, and our Polytechnic and our
Adelphi, and all the Public Schools.
What vast Improvement since some of
us used to 60 to school ! spoke mo
ment or two ago about the delightful
memories of boyhood, but we did not
put our school day "reminiscences among
them. l never had a miserable time
except when l went to school in the
country. Happy childhood indeed f.!
What with broken toys, and torn kites,
and the trials of losing the best marble,
and stumping your bare foot against a
stone, and 80 melody sticking pin into
you to see whether you would jump, and
the examination day with four or five
wsemen looking over their spectscIes
tn see if you could parse the first page Of
Doctor Young's Night Thoughts " until
verbs and conjunCtions and partiCipIes
got into a riot worthy OF the Fourth
Ward on election What school. house
that was that l went to in New Jersey
It was called HerOd's School-house,"
because of it's nearness to man by the
name of Herod, but it was doubly proper
because of the massacre Of the inn0Centsl
In those days school began at eight
o'clock in the morning, and lasted unit
five o'clock in the afternoon, and we got
the worth of our money! We had none
of your nonsense in the way of black.
boards and globes and philosophc ap.
paratus, and music, such as " Want to
Be an Angel" Who would want to be
an angel when he could be New Jer
sey school.boy7 Getting an education
was solemn business then, and no tri.
fling. There was desk fastened to the
wall, reaching all around the room, and
a high bench sat by it, 80 that our backs
were to the teacher, and when, some
warm afternoon, we forgot the import
anCe of the great cause Of Common
School education, and sat crooked, the
teacher would come around, and with
one stroke fetch half dozen boys OF US
to full appreciation of our privileges
To sit upright for eight hours-what an
Que reason why many
people in this day have 80 little back
DOne may O6 DeChub5 Ju6y WOIo lb ou oh
the hard sChool-benches! We had vari.
Gus kinds of punishment One was to
bend back the hand, shifting it with
ruler another was to strike him on the
head, thus stimulating the brai aud
another, to take the Culprit over the
school masters knee, 80 that information
came to the boy from both directions
We irreverently called one teacher odd
Hastings" and the other Old Hail." |
expect to meet them in heaven, but do
not care much about seeing them the
first day. From those men OF the rattan
and the hickory switch, how we learned
the A B G 30 that we never flrget it !
What's that2" "I dunno, sir" "That
is (whack y "A" "Whst is that ?"
i | dunno, sir" "That's (whack j 'B"
How much are twice 6veP" Twice
Eve are eight" "Twice FIVE are (whacEp
ten." And from that day to this the
multiplication-t table has been to me an
impossibility. Oh how changed now.
L.