Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-14

which collection was lifted.
DR.. P. s. Henson, d. D., of Philadel-
phia, was introduced and in brilliant
discourse, answered the question what
must be back of teaching % He said it is
not every man or woman who is a6.apted
to teach and those who cannot do it ought
not to try it. Nothing is more common in
the world than mistakes made in the Sc
lection of vocation, of square men trying
to get into round holes. There is an eter-
nal fitness of things that ought to be OBJ
served. To be good teacher a man
must have head, heart, a hoiy
life and the Holy Ghost. He must
have that which Edward Everett said was
the most uncommon thing in the world,
common sense" He must have some.
thing in his head. 1t will not do to at
tempt to feed cherubs from an empty
spoon they will soon detect the cheat.
The teacher must he ever alert, have his
eyes and ears open, and seek knowledge
constantly from all quarters, that he m
be able to impart it to all applicants. His
head must he full, surcllarged, ready to
burst with knowledge. Secondly lie must
have heart and a big one; it must be a new
heart. None without it should attempt to
teach or preach. A man can only tell what
he knows, and an unregenerate man knows
nothing of the spirit of religion. He must
also have warm heart, and it is not every
Christian that has one. There are men,
who, in all other respects appear to be
Christians, who are merely Christion ice
bergs, freezing every thing with which
they come in contact they have under
taker-likc faces, and their voices have a
"hark. from the tomb tone. These
people should not be allowed to teach.
The heart must not only be warm
but vigorous it must have force
like gunpowder, that would drive
home the truths Of religion. He
did not believe with Milton tint gun
powder was the invention of the devil on
the contrary he thought gunpowdcr was Il
very good thing it had done much to-
ward ameliorating the horrors of war /;
men do not now rs they did of old meet
face TO face in battle, throttle each other,
glare in each others faces with devilish ma
Lightly and hack each other to pieces with
knives. They kill each other more gen
teelly and at 4 greater distance and for
his own part, il Lc has to die violent
death, which lac hopes he won't, he wants
to be shot by somebody about Il mile
off SO that he can't see the man that
does it. While on the sunpowder question
DR.. Henson related d case in point. He
once went to hcara great man prcacl,-a
college professor. lie was immense Of
body and brain and mind-a wonder Of
knowledge and argument. He listened to
him with awe his every word appeared
to weigh Il ton, and his argument grew
until it appeared like Ossa piled on Pelion.
Realizing his own insisniticance, and
ashamed that he had ever presumed to
preach, convinced that he did not even
know what preaching was. DR.. Henson
shrunk back into his own iittlcness
and felt like sinking through the
floor. when casting his eyes over the audi
ence he saw that one half Of them were
asleep and the other half looked rs if they
would like to be. The great mans great
discourse was SO heavy tha: il had fallen
at his own feet.
DIR. Henson then spoke Of the necessity
of pure life Oh the part Of the teacher.
Holiness docs not consist merely in profess
ing religion. The most damaging thing
to religion is canting hypocrisy. But
above all other requisites the power of tho
Holy Ghost must be the teachers greatest
hope. Without it, head, and heart, and
holiness, amount to nothing. With it, and
with the other qualifications named, tho
faithful teacher will be rewarded with an
abundant harvest OF souls.
The doxology was sung and the convcL.
tion adjourned with a benedicti"n by Prof.
Dubbs.
7Aursday .uoraing.-Thc convention
opened with music, led by Prof. Fischer,
followed by prayer by Rev. Chas. f. Gcp-
hart, of Carlisle.
President Whitney asked to he excused
for the morning and called Mr.. Mccormick,
of Harrisburg, to fill the chair.
The committee on nominations submit
ted the followiog report:
President-John II. Whitney, Bryn
Mawr.
Vice Presdents-Gen. John Patton, Cur
wensville; Ed. S. Wagner, Mechanics
burg.
Treasurer-John Weist, Frceburg.
Executive Committee-James McCorm-
ick (presidcnt), Harrisburg L. ID. Vail,
Philadelphia Eli S. Reinhold, Mailanoy
City Rev. E. w. Rice, Philadelphia !;
Rev. Albert E. Funk, Philadelphia j. IL.
Miller, Lebanon J. X. Baldwin, Pitts
burgh :; w. l.. Woodcock, Altoona II.
c. Moore, Lancaster; Rev. Jesse b.
Young, Altoona Rev. W. II. Conard,
Philadelphia Rev, II. Crittenden, Belle
fonte Rev. Ii. II. Fleck, Stone Church
Rev. W. NJ. Frysinger, Harrisburg
Rev. S. G. Shannon, Milway X.
w. Hare, Philadelphia Henry
Small, York Rev. B. B. Hamlin, d. d.,
Altoona Rev. r. A. Fink, ID. D., Johns
town; Rev. A. NJ. Stirk, Easton: Rev.
G. w. Snyder, Harrisburg; H. II. Mos
ser, New Cumberland :; Rev. J. w. Sulli-
van. Cornwall; w. r. Davenport. Erie
F. Z. Nettleton, Scranton; G. II. PEhlcr,
Columbia ; DR.. J. w. Kerr, York J. Nc
Means, Shippensburg; Hon. ii. W. Will
Jams, Tioga Rev. w. ID. Slecse, Greene
county: James Gamble. jr., Williams
port j. B. Bachman, East Berlin W.
B. Marshall, Indiana Rev. J. Il. Soulc.
Objection being made to the name of
Rev. J. b. Soulc, the name Off. ii. Red
seeker, Lebanon, was substituted. Mir.
James Mccormick declined the post of
president of the executive committee.
The report was then adopted.
The committee on state Secretary'S re-
port made report favoring, first, the
merging of the offices Of state secretary
and statistical secretary into one general
secretaryship, the office to be made a sala-
ried one, the amount of salary to be pro-
vided for 10y the executive committee.
Second, in favor Of appointing delegates
to the third international convention,
which will assemble in Toronto, Canada,
in June, 1881, be left to a sub. committee
of the executive committee. Third, that
while the pro rata assessment of the inter-
national convention cannot be recognized
as debt, the executive committee shall
appropriate $3.50 to that convention.
The committee on the organization OF
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