The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-23

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guide a child's mind, is the grand
est sway. The teacher is greater
than the king. The king rules
without, the teacher rules within.
What is this our want of education
of the young. Education is to un-
fold nature, to strengthen good and
conquer evil to give self-help; to
make a man. The end of educa-
ton must be to teach us how to live
rightly. And let us say, we cannot
completely seculiarize education ell
iminating from man his heart, soul,
conscience belief and aspirations.
What we want is men, manysided'
full-orbed. 1t is sublime TO know
to investigate, to philosophize, to
master languages, sciences, arts
but what God and man want to know
of the business dealer, lawyer, ply
sician, mechanic, is, is he manly :?
Has he manliness ? Is he honorable,
trustworthy, conscientious? ? l do
believe we have all need to have
morals taught in the primary and
higher grades of our most excellent
public shools. Why wait till senior
year at college to teach boys and
girls, "ethics?" As another has well
put it, we would have sin hated
worse than syntax corrupt; loose
lives abominated more than loose
sentences; lie avoided more than
Latin misconstrued; bad associations
feared more than bad grammar. We
would have our youth believe that
whole heart is more than a whole
number; the formation of character
more than the formation of char
acters; and putting proper emphasis
on conduct, more than getting right
Greek accents. We would have
them know that the Ten Command
ments are as important as the ten
digits, honesty as history, purity as
physics, chivalry as chemistry. We
would teach them that there are
other things pure besides pure math-
ematics, other things right besides
right angels, other things vulgar be-
sides vulgar fractions, other things
base besides base lines" (Rev. Levi
Gilbert.) But a second thing which
we shall name as an element in the
production of good conscience, is
purity Purity of heart; purity of
life Guilt is Il synonym of i'm
purity. It's very essence is impurity.
The Devil knows this better than
any many living, and so he works
it for all that is in it. The pernici-
GUS influence and effects Of the dam
nablo poison sown broadcast over
our land to-day as thick and fast as
autumn leaves b, fore driving wind,
is but proof positive Of the truth Of
our assertion. If sin was not fos-
tered by this bad literature, why
should we have so much of it, and
why should good men and women
have to fight it so hard Then these
aids to impurity find ready pre-
pared ground in the awful tendency
to deiilement growing out Of our
chronic tendency to sin. Hence we
see that to keep this monitor pure is
not child's play Yet we believe it
grows out Of what we have already
touched upon us the luscious fruit
grows out of the fertile, healthy
bloom. We must not for moment
imagine that those who are conspic-
uously evil and notoriously impure
are the only ones who should and
must submit to this purifying pro-
cess. 1t is necessary for all. Why
the tendercst and sweetest natures
have elements Of i'll in them that
need remedyinp; we ali have need
to have the conscience pursed rom
dead works that we may serve the
living God. The worship in which
God particularly delights is pure
worship, rendered from pure hearts,
in pure lives; and to have the heart
and life pure, we must be freed from
the effects of an "evil" conscience.
Concluded neM tecek.
A Warning,