The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-19
PROVO SUMNER SCHOOL.
Great Interest Manifested in thu
Proceedings.
THE LECTURES OUTLINED.
DR.. BaldWin's Discourse on Educating
the Will.
Instructive Talk by DR.. Talmage on the
Great Salt Lake-ssSuccess, or the
Art of Making Great Mem
Other Lectures.
THE LECTURES OUTLINED,

win resumed his lecture on the eoucatlon
OF the viii. He said:
There are two kinds ofsubstance, materi-
al and spiritual. Whatever moves is SUBJ
stance, and whatever thinksis substance.
Worlds and systems viii serve their pur-
pose and disappear; but spirit Is ever
lasting. We are so apt to look without
that we forget the real world is within.
Motives are considerations which we
weigh, reasons why we should or should
not act. Impulses impel to action, but
never compel, as long as reason is IN the
ascendant. When you bay you can = nelp
doing an unwise act, you admit that yon
were not quite rational.
Will is the sovereign, from whose decl-
sion there is no appeal; when you DO
wrong, evil has captured your will, and
when q strong evil, like lntemperance,
captures and subjugates the will, how
ablect the man is!
We cannot expect a child to take high
position and hold 1t, because its will is
not developed, but manhood and woman
hood should Lave a strong Will and an
educated judgment.
There is not an hour of life in which
we are not called to decide important
matters, and it is absolutely necessary
that the education of men and women
should strengthen the will end sharpen
the Judgment. The great trouble with
the masses of men is the lack OF will
power; the abundance of it makes the
great man among men.
When shall this power be developed?
say, begin in early childhood. What
ever leads the child to choose good is
means OF educating the will. Biography
is the best literature to this end, but self
study is above that.
How shall we educate the will Alright?
Leave person free to shoose and con-
triYe 10 have him choose right. II YOU
understand the soul of the child you can
usually induce HIM to choose wisely; and
every time he does SO he gains moral
strength.
Our training is too largely negative.
The old schoolmaster taught language
with false syntax, but now we adhere to
showing the correct forms. It should be
so in the education of the will. We must
keep the right in view continually, and
keep wrong out OF range as far as pos
sible.
The chairman introduced President
Kingsbury, of the University of Utah,
who spoke of the folly of living beyond
our means, and suggested that every boy
should be taught political and financial
economy.
Professor Giles played g march, and
long class of little girls fled in and seated
themselves on two long benches, which
quite filed the stage. After some tone
exercises the children sang tIn the Sky
Above U.s. very softly and sweetly.
Next they sang verse loudly, followed
by the same verse sung softly, to show
how much more sweet was soft singing.
Oae small girl sang a soft, sweet song, to
illustrate the idea of small force and sweet
tone. The professor said sweetness is the
main thing in youth, and power Will
come later.
DR.. Talmage spoke on the Great Salt
Lake of Utah: This lake, said he, is in
teresting less from its present character,
than from its past. This lake, Utah Lake
and Sewer Lake are remains of greater
lake which once occupied nearly the
whole of the great basin, with an outlet
northward, sending a stream through the
Columbia River. 1t was not at that time
more than slightly salt character. 1t
had an average depth of about one thous-
aud feet, as its imprints on hiflsides will
abundsntly prove. Since the lake fell be-
low its outlet. it has steadily grown more
saline on account of its vast accumula-
tions OF sediment from its inlets. 1t this
thirsty atmosphere, evaporation goes on
at very surprising rate. This lake still
rises and tails in periods of years as well
as eemi-annuaily. The composition of
its water varies with these risings and
failings, low water containing more solid
matter in solution than high water.
The cold water of winter holds in solution
less solids than the warm water of
summer. In winter the waves deposit
crystals OF salt and sodium suiphate on
the beach; where, if they lie until
warm weather, they will be reGbsorbed.
Doubtless the waters of this lake will
hereafter be used in the manufacture of
many staple chemicals.
The popular idea that no living thing
inhabits this lake is not true. Four
kinds OF inferior animals exist there and
we are justified in inferring, from this
premise alone, that vegetable lie exists
also.
The sand on the shore is calcarious and
globular; and when we cali it sand we
simply follow a popular mode.
The speaker does not believe that the
natural food OF gnats and mosquitoes is
blood, but decaying vegetable matter.
He invited all who might desire, to visit
the microscope view some mounted
specimens of the insects, also some sand
from the Great Salt lake.
On Thursday evening DR.. Baldwin de-
livered particularly interesting lecture
on the subject, success, or the Art of
Making Great Men,"
He said: Tonight l shall present to
you the individual and personal problem.
The saddest things in life are the thou
sands OF men end women who spend their
lives on the dead level of inferiority and
never have wish to rise above It.
How shall we make the most of our
lives? Let us approach the subject on the
historical side. What man has done.
men may do again. Solomon asked for
great wisdom, and received that and also
riches and honor.
The history of the Spartans tells us
how man may become great physically.
Who can lind limit to the might OF a
human mind? When we look at our
Websters and Gledstones, we wonder
that man can accomplish so much; but
look ahead for million years of progress
and see that the great labors of today
will be only child'S play then.
How do our great men become great?
Take Patrick Henry, an awkward, IN
couth boy; when he went into business
he Jailed in that because he was practic-
ing being teacher and leader of men:
and when the great cali came, he was
ready to answer it.
Winship spent but one hour in a day
at his physical exercise, and great men
work only short hours at their mental
labors; but they work in earnest, and |
then rest awhile.
Emma G. Bracket commenced in q |
country school in Vermont; through adj |
verse circumstances sent herself to col |
lege, got situation as teacher and in a 1
few years became principal of high |
school In st. Louis at a salary % g, 700 a |
year. AID now she is III New York at a |
salary of $1,000.
The speaker told eloouently the story |
of Francis Willard, James Garfield, Henry |
Clay and others TO illustrate the idea that |
those who strive Will succeed in spite of |
obstacles.
Education is necessary to success, be-
cause man to rise high must know what |
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