The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-10


! these await the progressive workers.
L cite you an instance of a truly
! great man-great in the integrity of
| ms heart, in the meekness and hu-
mility of his spirit, and in the divinely
! bestowed power with which he was
] endowed Moses, the deliverer and
law-giver Of Israel, received his pri-
| mary education in the palaces of the
Pharoahs, ROBBED and attended as be-
came the son of a king. There amidst
royal surroundings he learned princely
| ways, and in time was prepared for
| more advanced instruction. And what
| institution did he attend for this
! higher tuition and training? The
! university of the wilderness. While
keeping his sheep in the desert he
WIS free to commune with his God
! and to receive wisdom from the foun-
tain head of truth. After forty years
of this kind of schooling, during which
| his powers of observation and judg-
ment were perfected, his self-control
! developed and the weakness of ignor-
ance dissipa ted. He was adjudged by
the Great Teacher worthy of further
| advancement, how to become leader
and lawgiver to a nation, the teacher
and Scourge of kings.
And SO with many more, after an
adequate probation in palaces of learn
! ing they are led by the divinely APP
| pointed circumstances Of necessity into
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their experience, to perfect their
knowledge; and happy, indeed, may
they be, for great will they become,
If the conditions of their appointed lot
be ever made to soften and to beautify
their natures. Many of these lessons,
oiten the deeI st and most valuable of
all, are not set down on the pro-
gramme of daily order; they are not
considered in detail as we arrange our
plans for schooling; they belong to
what we call general education, which
results from association with our fell
lows, and from contact with the world
There has been in the recent period
OF human history q very general
throwing open of the doors in schools
and colleges, but still there remains
much of the clustered air about these
institutions of both high and low de-
gree. We must not, we cannot, re-
main there closeted forever. L would
not keep a student in school for all
time. / would wish him passed when
prepared, as preparation goes, to the
more practical departments of life. But
he should go forth. as perhaps he came
not ina student, indeed.
In the early stages of the years
work this was declared to you, and
often in the course of the flying weeks
has the lesson been repeated. 1 trust
that none have ignored it. You were
told, and l tell you again, that your
alma mater expects of you, demands
OF you, indeed, something more than
simple devotion to prescribed classes.
True, you are pupils of hers; but more
than that she regards you as her
children, and as such she takes an in
terest and pride in all your doings; in
your future as in your past Her
ambition is that you become not alone
scholars, but men and women in the
truest and most honorable meaning of
the terms. Your work may stand re-
corded on official registers as of high
grade in language, literature, mathe-
mates, art, and science; but if today
you are not truer, nobler, better sons
and daughters than when you entered
upon your studies, if your aca-
demic training has not made and
will not continue to make of
you better citizens. more honorable
and moro useful in the world you
should count yourselves among the
failed and resolutely determine to re-
deem the record. The modern aspect
of education is pre-eminently a utili-
tartan one; this is an encouraging
condition, unless by utility we under
stand mere money getting power. That
knowledge is most useful which puts
and keeps its possessor in strictest
harmony with the music of progress
with which the world today resounds.
To find ones place in the economy of
life, to fill it honorably, unostenta-
tiously, completely is the great duty
of man. Not to confute, disorganize,
and destroy, but to build UP and to
subserve the general good.
1 spoke of harmony and music;
what great lessons lie in the proper
application of that comparison! Life
is musical, labor is melodious to all
whose ears are prepared to hear,
whose souls are attuned to respond.
In the combined orchestra and choir
of effort, pouring forth the sublime
strains of the great anthem endeavor,
now in soft and peaceful tones, now
in rolling volumes that thunder forth
the passages of struggle, each is a
singer, or an operator with his part
so necessary ID the harmony of the
majestic whole. A traveller who So
journed for time in the Italian
cline of song. tells of an instructive
experience He entered at evening
time a little church in a small hamlet
where only poor people lived. In the
course of the service the congregation
sang, and our visitor was surprised at
+he discord that marked the effort to-
ward musical praise. Being himself
a lover of sweet sound he was greatly
distressed and rose to leave the
chanel and its earnest but unframed
singers. AS he reached the door he
caught the pure tones of one whose
voice was in strictest time and tune
His eve swept the congregation Ger,
in search of the sweet musician, as
one may peer among the foliage of
the copse to catch sight of some
feathered songster whose notes have
entered his soul. He had little trouble
in recognizing the object of his search
ing gaze. A woman stood at the foot
of the pulpit steps, beautiful in the
soulful expression of her countenance
as in the sweetness of her voice, her
notes seeming all the purer from con-
trast. And on she sang paying little
heed to the discordant accompan1-
ment. She made no effort to drown
the other voices; had she so done she
might have wandered far from her
own course of melody. Before the
s+anza was finished a dozen were sing
ing in harmony with her, and by ones
and rwos they followed her lead till
the hymn closed with every voice in
time. So sings a single earnest
worker amongst the masses who
know no more than to shrek ana
howl. Sing on, devout soul; let thy
COMPANIONS disturb thee not; nor cause
thee to skip a bar nor drop a note
through their discord-without thy
consciousness or theirs sooner or later
they will sing with thee o. cease 20
disturb if thou art right and they are
wrong. Thou mayest not be thu di-
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