The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-04-03

hoah IN SbiOtI htis uul Ill ullllus
nothing that concerns the heart
No pains have been spar1d in fa'
vor of the intellect, while the sensi.
tive part of our nature, the mora
emotions, the lower notifications
of desire and the affections have
been left to grow without training
Surprising this to be nearly the
true state of things all rejecting
minds will contemplate it with
regret, and look forward will
great interest to the time when
moral education will at least be on
equal footing with intellectual,
Admitting the great Importance
of moral culture, it might be
suggested that the establishing
of moral principles might be omit
ted until n person is old enough to
decide upon subjects of this ma.
ture himself This suggestion
would be entitled to more weight,
were it possible in the mean time
for the mind To remain moral
blank; but as the mind Is continu-
ally operative it is almost an in
evitable consequence that it early
receives, and MS it were, incorpor-
ates into itself principles of eth
er right or wrong. 1t Is neeesse-
Try then to pr8oeoupy the mind
with a careful introduction and q
cultivation of those clements hay-
ing a moral tendency, Let The
young mind, therefore, be made
the subject of asgidious moral
culture, Is it not the work of
those to whom the training Of the
mind is entrusted to give this
culture so far as the time the
child is in his care will permit
During childhood and youth, and
until pupils education is com
pleted he is really under the care
of his teacher more than his pa
rents, and fifty spoken words from
him appealing to The t6onseience
of his pupil will prodopAa moe
lasting influence than fpRa ~
rent. Who Of us will rst remem-
bei ever the words from our pre-
ceptors to us that appealed direct
" to our emotional principles and
had great bearing upon our CON
duct? 1t may have been but q
sentence, OF it may have been but
a word, yet it produced deep
impression. AS the dew drop
falls upon the wheat ear and asks
the sun to kiss it, and being invig-
Grated by its genial rays, wandors
down through a tiny tissure and
contributes its share in nourish-
ing the stalk, so does each moral
word spoken by a teacher sink its
roots deep into the heart of his
pupil and produces great effect,
although that effect may not be
perceptible until years hence.
The least and most unperceptable
impression made ON children have
consequences Of importance and
long duration. And these impress
sions are of frequent occurrence,
The mind of child in school is
continually expanding and grasp
ing for something new, and by
some casual act or word from its
teacher an impression for good or
evil is made upon that mind daily
Then while that child's instructor
is blending his energies to engrsft
into Its mind intellectual knowl-
edge, let him with correspl nding
energy endeayor to train his pu-
piI to discern moral as well rs in
telleetual truth. The foundations
of an honorable ago are formed
in childhood; Cor two-thirds of the
human family are what they are,
good or bad, useful or pernicious
to society through the instructions
they have received. On moral
education depends the difference
observable between themn In
tellectual culture without moral
discernment is harlot who lives
in moral night Decorated in the
tlnsol of art and letters, she al
lures the weak and wicked to the
fathomless abyss Of eternal misery
and woe, From the correctly
cultivated mind and heart ia reap .
ed the harvest of moral excellence,
spiritual beauty and eternal adj
vantage. Moral instructions com.
municated TO the youthful memory
are in possession Of a power which
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