The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-23
sDr Sanderson on the Subject Of
Higher and Better Education
for Montana Youth.
Colleges and Academies and Their
ADVANTAGES to Striving Tai
ent and Ambition.
a p,.a for the Montana Thoroughbred"
I'll. Most Promising Youngsters any
State has to Show.

sanh Sarderson, of BoZeman, contains sew
eral interesting suggestions concerning our
educational system. They arc worthy of
careful consideration. The text was taken
from Luke l. &c.
"Wbat manner of child shall this be -
Mr.. Sanderson said: This was the query
raised at the birth of one afterwards owned
Of Christ as the greatest of woman born"
-'among them that are born OF women,
there hath not arisen greater than John
the Baptist
Maryels that were birth marks of Jesus,
to certain extent attended the birth of his
famous kinsman: just as the marvellous of
the life of our Lord reached on afterwards
and accompanied his apostles. Hence it
was more than the adulation of the house
hold and of neiehbors over the COM
ing of a baby that raised the query
s.What then shall this child be?"
For a thing so common since Adam, what
an epoch is the advent of a little one? The
dawning of young fresh life. How swift
the wishes come. as if each attendant was q
fairy eodmother How fervent the prayers
mingle for both lives, mother and child.
But how vague is all prop hecy? Traits and
dispositions of near progenltors-the very
atmosphere of the home and the comlnun-
ity--the abundance or lack of earthly ad-
vantages. are all swiftly counted to help
guess "what manner of child this shall be-"
Here and there bit of helpless mortality
is cast up as by the waves, with never a
care or prayer or thought as to its mortal
or immortal possibilities. But in proper
ton to the intelligent Christian refinement
of the home is the event delivered from
mere animal unconcern. In one instance
the little life is sent out to join the herd,
with barely brand of ownership, while the
other, the gift of God, arrives almost as a
mansions above. But how about the anx-
ious wish. and prayer, and prophecy, later
on, when the child takes on years, and the
boy or girl natures almost perceptibly
day by day? Babvhood is the prophesy of
life yet to be-"The child is father to the
man, What then? Who can portray the
visions of the night. or the ambitious illu-
sions of the father regarding his boy, while
yet this kinship with something celestial
seems new cleaning in the smiling dimpled
form before him. After while these illu-
sions cease.
and holy wishes. to be carried on into later
years, when they stand almost at the goal
of the best realizations Dreams may be
formulated into existence, and the tints
and shadows take on determinate bounds.
Wishes have found fruition-and all the
PACbuAC6 bCcu nv suuElst EIIUB I'D do RlOrluoO
at the close of day. Even as the reverse
has often come true and every thing in the
young life turn to dead sea apples-al]
blasted and withered. l have known man,
once as fair as the child on the bosom OF
Elizabeth, turn to loathing and actually
fan of !ife,s last citadel, mothers heart, 5
mothers blessing. 10y
1t does not help to call in fatalism, Of
blindly trust in the might of race OF
mighty ancestors; if this2is all. ! believe
in good stock; in pure strains: Blood will
tell" Yes; it sometimes tells fatally to de-
struction. But more is absolute. Every
accessory, every fortuitous help, beyond
even prayer alone.
II is the weightiest endeavor in all life'e
enterprises to fashion life, and inspirit it
with the best. "To train up child" seems
go feeble and commonplace, as the phrase
drops from these pages OF God. 1t has
possibly picture to the mind in passing of
gardener catching up a sprig here, OF
pinning back tendril there, and leaving
all the rest to the earth and sunshine. with
bit of watering at the close of day. But
the florist knows more even of this sugges-
tion-and the master of the vineyard tells
Us far more beside.
There have been years when this race
reached physical perfection. Our art re-
sources go back to that day when the curve
and symmetry of the human form were
attained only after the EXTREMIST care and
this through centuries reaching into mag
nlfcence. Breeding, training. fashioning
through and by the severest processes,
There was a discipline even unto agony.
The ultimate was perfect man. 1t was
the classic age and has served the necessi-
ties of art, but scarcely aught beside II
was for man, but not for humanity, nor for
the world best estate. There was perfec-
ton III mentality, it is true-grace in all
that was artistic, as we'll as all that is i'm
Perishable in architecture. The classic age
has its purpose and we are the gamers in
all that: on marbles; in the great epics: in
philosophers; in word, in having all that
man could achieve, having mere relation to
earth. and apart from the living and the
true God. Save, of course, us here and
there an instinct of something reverential
gave sublimity to thought.
And this was Greece. Another age Col
lowed with widened scope of territory
with powers and purpose to fashion the
bartanic nations of the world into some
thing higher. Wonderfully potent wa!
this sway under the Caesars and the senate
pliances, and yet Rome followed Greece
Indeed as did the Hebrew nation from tn
heights of glory as in Solomon's day whel
kings came to the brightness of .that ria
ing Though with divine favor, sublim
inherent beliefs, with heroic past and
glory of prophesy even unfolded befor
their eyes Israel is scattered broad cas-
among the nations to-day.
No man can live unto himself-no natio
can live unto itself. And the motions c
the ages are not alone. Gods quiet pull
poses uIravelling apart from what man
dong. If it Is true, that in the past tt
centuries moved slowly us now the yeal
march in almost bewildering movement,
Is because men are coming up to help til
Lord. God has not quickened, no mol
does lie work his purpose alone. Thei
thoughts are related.
These days are mightier than all 9TH
days combined-and the occasions, as a
the past, redeemed to one happy mighty o.
portunlty. And I'VE are brought into Il
MMngdom for Just such time as this
what remains of prophesy is fast being re
egated into history. The generation th'
SNAIL lap these two centuries, this one en-,
ing, and the other awaiting tomorrow
Dawn, will outliye the eliminating work
the mission of the browning. 1 belle,
tnere never was such now as this no,
Mere physical perfection, or military pro,
ess, or the highest of art, or the unfoldiI
OF the last idea of the animal. Nor wi
mere exclusive claim to Gods favor ACHE
the result. 1t will be as this and the ne
succeeding race of young men and wom
snail achieve with God and the race in vie
Il VIII be knowledge with purpose, the me
TAI WITH soul development. In a word,
Will be largely as your children shall achie
under God for the world.
Inns Will task tine whole manhood a
gomanhood as insistently as Greek you
IN MS gymnasium underwent his develo
ment. As the Roman took to military q
grandlsement or the Hebrew to devotie