The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-21
EMPHASIZE THE GOOD.

correcting the puplls errors, not b.,
drawing attention to the error made, bu
by substituting for it the correct form O
the correct movement. II IL is mis-
take in language, she does not repeat tn,
wrong form OF speech, and SO only i'm,
press upon the child's ear the mistaken
sound; but she gives him, in it
stead, the correct expression, using it of
ten and training him to recognize 1t a,
the right one for his own use
What would you think of drawing
teacher who set an imperfect model before
his class, called their attention to the lack
of proportion and the misshapen lines
and then asked them to use the model,
correcting its wrong points as they
worked out the copy?
We are ready enough to admit the value
of keeping perfection before the mind as
a means toward training in language and
art, but someway we lose sight of the
value Of the same method when applied
elsewhere.
"What are you doing there? Well,
stop it; don't do II again. - How many
times day on an average does child
hear that do you suppose? How often is
there welcome change to the far better?
"Let's do so and so"-or "please do this
or that?" No wonder that the little fell
low, whose father asked when he came
home at night, "Well, Johnny, what
have you been doing all day?" replied
with pout, "Haven't been doing any
thing-been don'ting." There is a "John-
N.Y. inside good many of us "child-
rem of larger growth" that often rebels
at the amount of "don'ting" imposed
upon us. The phiianthropist know
that il they would save man from evil
doing, they must put him in way to
see and do the right. They don't enlarge
upon the horror of his evil ways, but
they go quietly to work to put before his
mind better ways of living. They know
that there is nothing more beautiful,
more attractive than genuine goodness;
and they simply give it a chance to prove
its magnetism.
When the workers in the slums start To
save child from the evil atmosphere
there they first OF all place that child
where he can learn the existence of some
things that he has never known--beauty
and virtue. When the child finds out
that there are such things as flowers and
kind hearts he turns to them like pale
plant to the sunshine. 1t is this charm OF
beauty and goodness that holds the secret
'f the redeeming influence in "Country
Weeks" and "Flower Missions"
We have grown into a habit of laying
stress upon the worlds evil rather than
Is good When we read of crime in the
columns of daily paper, we bewail the
yickedness OF the human race-all the |
ime ignoring the fact that for the one |
nan who perhaps betrays his trust, and
urns embezzler, there are a thousand
ionest men working faithfully with never
thought Of departure from their line of
onscientious drudgery. They pass un-
nown; II is the dishonest man whose
anne is held up before the world. We
It the ordinary, humdrum virtues escape
ur notice so busy are we with censuring
be faults of our fellowmen; and this is
ur mistake.
The habit OF looking for the good in
eople and things develops into con-
tant quality akin to the charity that
thinketh no evil" 1t puts world of
ourage into a mans heart to have the
est that is in him recognized and cred
ed; to have someone see the success i'm
hat to most people seem like his utter
lures. We know from our own expert.
ice how much such generous willing
ess to emphasize the good is worth to
). And il we remember this, we can.
ot fail TO pass along the good cheer and
} to someone else just such bearer OF
and cOurnpe until ~
myth we gain something like the whole
me helpfulness that was in that woman
whom BROWNING wrote:
ie praised each effort; laughed, "weu
climbed!r
lille others groaned. Unore eyor |
grovelled so!''
CHURCH unity is making progression
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