The herald., 1895-05-20
Why People Become Failures
in This World
PLAN FOR PERFECT SOCIETY
Views of DR.. Thomson on the SUBJ
ject
The Saving Church Is the Catholic Church
and Its Shepherd is Jesus Christ, Says
Father McAuliffe

At The Church of the Unity yesterday
the pastor, J. S. Thomson, .had selected
for mis- text the words. Train up a child
in the way he should go. proverbs.
12:6, and preached a sermon on 1ndivld-
ualism in the Public Schools.
In the Bible we find 1t stated that the
spirit of every child is sent from God into
this world for special purpose. Inc
Creator appointed the spirit OF jeremiah
before his incarnation to be prophet.
The work and character OF John the Bap-
tist had been described by the angel be-
fore his spirit was incarnated. Christ
says that he was sanctified ana sent INTO
the world to be n witness to the truth.
Paul says that he was born to reveal
Christ. Every child comes into the
world with genius for some special
work. Parents and teachers should study
the child carefully and prayerfully to dis
cover its genius. This gift OF God in the
child should be trained properly ior lts
work.
OF the 800, 600, 600 souls now on the
globe no two were created to do exactly
the same work, and God has created Il
certain number Of these souls to be cler-
gymen. lawyers, farmers, engineers sail
ors. merchants. physicians, teachers, ma
sons. If all the persons on earth were
now doins what they were created to do,
there would be no unemployed men, there
would not be hundreds applying for the
same situation. The mon who are crowd
ed out of the way IN the struggles OF lie
who have been thrown\ aside as failures
in competition, are men that force
themselves into positions they were not
created to fill. They might have been
successful in the work they were born to
do. No man can be failure if he Will
do the work Providence calls him to dc.
Society will never be peaceful. prosper
GUS and happy until every child is trained
to do its own work, the work of its
genius. Criminals are persons who were
not educated to do their special work.
There are eight new demands in educa-
tional affairs: Find out the child's ge-
MUS; train its genius for its work; all
the faculties of the child should receive
proper proportion of training; do not
obige the child to learn what its life will
not need teach every child some trade;
teach the young the dignity of labor; the
child should be taught to reason as a
whole number and not as fraction; and
no instruction should be tolerated that
Injuries the child's health.
Indlvidualsm in the public schools
would satisfy these eight demands, and
the machine or class system cannot sat
isiy them. 1t never has satisfied them.
The machine is q failure, because 1T nights
against God in the nature of the child.
1t is atheism in education. Individual
ism has not had fair trial in our schools.
If the school board would agree to let
Superintendent Search test his method
in one of our largest grammar schools for
three years, without interference or noisy
prejudice, then our people would have
an opportunity TO see and Judge the re
suits The rest of the schools, managed
on the common plan should receive due
attention in order that theii best results
might be seen. Those who think that
children should always be educated by
the machine should pray that the C1eator
would make every child alike so that all
children would fit the machine. AS God
makes them now they do not fit the ma
chine. Los Angeles today stands before
the world like Lots wife. Politicians,
bCoders, cergymen OF all sects, ignorant
men and women, and immoral peiso
should never be allowed to dictate the
management of the public schools. They
should be managed on civil service prin-
ciples. and their management should be
SO wise and conscientious that the young
would be inspired to noble thoughts and
deeds. The positions in the schools
should not be for sale to the highest bid
der. The teachers should be treated like
human beings and their places should be
sure tc them, so that at the end of the
year they could plan FOL their vacation,
without having to wait and worry about
their places. 1t would be an eternal dis
grace to Los Angeles if Superintendent
Search, through spiteful treatment Of any
kind, were forced to resign his position
at the head of our schools. The schools
neeed strong, progressive, wise and
conscientious superintendent. We have
such a superintendent now. Let us ie-
tain him and use him well. 1t is the
duty of our citizens, board of education,
teachers and superintendent to work to-
gether for the best interests of our
schools. We owe it to our children to do
our best for their proper education. and
to show them that we ale consec1ated to
their development, that we can super
intend our schools without misunder-
standings, spite and quarrels Let all
mistakes be forgotten. and let the future
record of our schools be such as to make
every citizen OF Los Angeles proud and
grateful.