Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-09
NORMAL INSTITUTE
Held at the LeMOyne schoOI-Address
by Judge James o. Pierce
the
Dignity OF LaDOr-The Story by the Rev.
Il. L. Hall, Entitled "ren Times
One Is Ten.''

The Normal Institute, now in session at
LsMoyne school, reached yesterday at
tendance of 100 teachers. DR.. Henderson,
the county superintendent, was in attend
ance the entire day, as he will be to-day,
dividing his time equally between the two
schools at Bartlett and in this city. Last
night Judge Pierce spoke TO the members of
the Institute on the idea of labor as digni-
fed. He said, in substance:
JUDGE PIERCE ON THE DIGNITY OF LABOR
Ole not himself teacher, can hardly ex-
pect to instruct you in the art of teaching;
that you get in this Normal Institute. But
if / may not hope to instruct you as a
teacher, may hope to say something of gen.
eralinterest to you as men and women. In
listening to the exercises of the graduating
class OF this institution, few days since,
i was especially struck by the
number ITEM that made up the graduating
class. That reminded me of the noted
story by the Rev. f. E. Hall, entitled, Ten
Times One is Ten. This book details how one
m an after his death, or his memory, had in
spired ten other persons to lives of useful
ness as his OWE had been inspired. These
ten in turn inspiring each ten others, and
this hundred thousand others, and so on.
/ trust that this class that was sent from this
institution may have the same success in
forming the lives of a hundred others, and
so on. am Stdu 10 Know lndl THIS lUsLl-
tute now in session here, numbers ten times
ten. l shall hope to say word to you that
may impress you with the possibility and
necessity of extending your influences, for
from such centers this all good influences
flow 10 the world. 1 would speak to you to-
night of
THE VALUE AND DIGNITY OF LABOR.
L would not be of those who apologize for
labor or its necessity, for labor is a neces-
sity in our American life. We are nation
of lsborers-a nation of intellectual and
physical laborers. Other nations have classes
who need not work, but who dominate affairs
of government. In our own country every
person of every class may feel and have in
terest in every affair of our land. Why lie
it, would have you inquire, that it is neces-
sary that we should labor? Because, / would
answer, created we are in the image
OF God, the creator, We are made
in the capacity and with the
power for labor, like in kind as the effort put
forth by Him as the Creator. God, in His
wisdom and love for man, has wisely placed
US in surroundings calling for effort on our
part. What sort of a race would that be
that should be surrounded by all the needful
things of life? God designed that we should,
through struggle and effort, reach out and up
ward toward him. Only that is blessing
to man that calls for effort on his part. Any
of you, as teachers, must know that in the wsys
of mental requirement nothing can be at
tanned that is not worked for. So, as a cor
ollary, you may teach that
GOOD IN ANY WAY
is only attained through effort. Education
is process of activity, of drawing out what
is in the mind. We need but step to the
street TO see how idleness, dislike Of labor,
leads to wretchedness and misery. The funda-
mental idea OF possession is labor, and those
who seek possession without labor violate the
first law of nature. Property as word
means something peculiar, something made