The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-01-11

naught but distordant notes; but if
you are master you will make him
sing aloud in joyous melody. Play
acith a masters hand.
". WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH HIM?
1. Growl at him? He'll return it
with the worst kind of compound in
terest.
2. Stuff him with facts? Then
you make big intellectual bologna
out Of him.
3. Give him his own sweet will?
Then Satan will find some mischief
for him to do.
4. Make him do that which is dis
taseful to him? If so you ruin his
young life, and undertake to thwart
the purpose for which God created
him.
5. Make an old man out Of him?
By no MEANS He will be that soon
enough. Let him wear the bloom and
freshness Of youth as long as he can.
The cloud Of care and the wrinkles of
responsibility will come soon enough,
without your hurrying them.
6. answer: Make man out Of
him. He was not made for beast Of
burden. His ears are not long enough
for that. He was not made for an ig-
norant drudge. The OK was made for
that, and well does he discharge his
duty.
But the boy was made for moral and
religious culture. He was made to
rule empires; to guide the ship Of
state; to draw sword in defence of the
rights of man; to unravel the myster-
teries Of nature, and unlock the gates
of knowledge.
He was made for bui. ding up a
moral character which will ennoble
him in the sight Of the angels. He
} was made to be moral hero.
For he is capable Of descending far
below the beasts in degradation if he
lacks moral culture. If left to him
self he will saturate himself with liq-
| uor and tobacco until the wolves of
| the prairie would scorn to eat Of his
dead carcass. His soul will become
saturated with obscene filth. His
words will be intermingled with foul
and horrid oaths until he becomes a
fend incarnate. This is the end of
the abandoned boy. The boat cast
adrift on the Niagara River floats
} helplessly down the rapids. gathering
speed and momentum as it advances
until it shoots over the falls, and is
! ! hurled into the abyss below. 1t is but
the symbol of the abandoned boy
But he has capacities in another direc-
tion. If you lay for him good foun.
dation, broad and deep, and teach him
well how to build thereon, he will rise
breast high with an angel, and event.
ually build a character nobler thar
they. I had rather be man than al
angel; for the possibilities Of man arr
a, . greater. Hence, I say, make MAJ
out Of him.
. . Last evening that problem was dis
: cussed so well by my dear Brothe
- Cherington, C that I need not re-opel
the discussion here. You cannot, a
e teachers, overrate your mission. Yo,
9 cannot have too high standard Q
: moral character in your mind. Yo7
i cannot be too careful as to the mora
: example you set before them. AM
y you cannot have too high an intellect
:, ual preparation for this grand worl
;. in which you are engaged. You ar
n to develop in the schools the futur
giants in the intellectual world; fo
there are to be giants in these comini
= days. If you do not understand Gh
o principles cf the minds action; if yo
y have not an adequate knowledge o
. the principles Of the processes of men
tai action, how can you train tina
% mind to right modes Of thought? "IS
norance cannot teach." It should b
;s debarred forever from the school room
q from the pulpit, from every profess
g ion. The quack doctor is bad enough
=, he may destroy your body; the quac
8 lawyer is too bad he will get you int
,s a world Of trouble, and make you pa
4 for it, roundly. But the quack teach
r. Ell and quack preacher, will ruin th
I fair temple which God intended the
70 should beautify, and adorn for hin
;, self, and they should be forever exc
= Grated and banished from our free RI
;S public. And let all the people sa
- Amen! I know there is a sentimer
abroad that such and such person
- ought to have this or that school b,
IS cause they hare no other means Of earn
70 ing a Hving! I denounce this as a
- outrage on the boys. One term of ig
- norant cultus may warp the boy
. mind forerer. Not only one boy, bu
i the entire school. Better send you
;s boys to the pest-house, and allow ther
- to become infected with the small
- =, pox. Yes, a thousand times better
n for that may be cured; but moral G
u or intellectual scar, given to the boy
n remains .fore0er.
J. Boys are worth taking care o.
They are the heroes of the Twentiet