The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-09
BISHOP vMCENT'S LECTURE
LARGE AUDIENCE AT THE FIRST
METHODIST CHURCH.
The Subject Was seTom and His
Teachers" and the Address Was
Lesson For PIrents and Guar
dams of Children.

Bishop Vincent, the founder of the
Chantauqua Literary society, a famous
pulpit orator and one of the most adj
mired men in the Methodist church,
lectured last evening at the First NJ.
e. church, his subject being Tom and
His Teacher"
The address was announced for s
o'clock, and at that time the hall was
almost flied, although it was a quarter
OF an hour later when the bishop APP
peared, and from the beginning 10 the
close oe the lecture he held his audi
ence spen-bound.
His lecture formed a lesson to par
ents or guardians of children as to the
proper way 70 bring boys up. Tom"
being the example of a model lad.
Tom never comes shuffiing into the
house with mud on his shoes. His
manner TO his mother, brothers and sis
ters was conSiderafe-the consideration
born of affection. They We're all the
result Of proper training, for training
in them was as essential as in spelling
or arithmetic. Tom respects old age,
too.
Another thing Tom had to learn was
that he was a person, not a thing; a
cause, not am effect; not victim of
circumStan ces, nor d victim of habit.
He must go into his work wholesouled,
and determined to win. 81 was stand
ing on a levee of the Mississippi river
come time ago. said the speaker,
when L saw some logs floating down
stream. Soon some of them became
tangled together and in some way were
stopped. A little while after, l saw q
tug come from a little lower down the
stream. and making its way against
the mighty current, it pulled for the
logs. After a. desperate effort, it
reached them and freed them and they
went on down stream. Now the tug
reached the logs because it had an
energy, or we might say, a heart in
the work. Tom must be like the tug,
and not the logs. in travelling down the
stream of life.
II was on my way over to Ireland
one June two or three years ago, in
a big ocean liner. The wind was with
US, and we were making good time, the
engineer said twenty knots an hour.
Coming back in August, I came over
another line. The wind was very
strong and was right in our teeth. The
ship was struggling fearfully through
the rough waters, but we were going
at a good rate considering the condi-
tons, about six knots an hour 1
would rather Tom should be sturdy like
the Cebtic steamer on the voyage
across the dark sea of life
There many other things Tom will
have to battle with. Here is an ex-
ample of one. He was at school one
Lay when he Was accosted by a
crowd of boys who were engaged in
rolling cigarettes. One asked him to
smoke but he said he didn't care to.
The rufflan said he would give him six
weeks to learn. At the expiration of
six weeks Tom was asked why he
hadn't learned TO smoke. He said he
had three reasons for not doing so. The
first was that it was injurious TO the
internal organs Secondly, 1t wastes
money that would be useful for other
things. Lastly. ne had promised his
mother that he would not touch to-
bacco in any form. A boy who has
the courage to stand before a crowd Of
boys and, without fiinchtng, give them
some arguments like those three is
sure to get along in life.
tom mukL learn independence.
Sometime ago there was a good mayor
of New York, of course this was un-
common, and furthermore he was a
Democrat Well he told me that he
was training mis- boy up to take care of
himself. lie was ceach1Br- MS boy TO
work for his living so that e would
respect others who had to take care
of themselves.
Tom must also learn independence.
That is why the public schools are so
beneficial. They treat the rich and
poor alike They go by merit, not
money. When a question is put to the
scholars, 1t is not always che wealthtest
boy who answers it. More generally
the poor boy who knows that his fu-
ture life depends upon his education.
But Tom has a better teacher chan
his public school teacher, better even
than his mother. That is his first en-
ployer. If his employer takes an inter-
est in his affairs, it helps him along
and makes him fit for the future bust
ness man. If he is cross and dis
agreeable, the boy is liable TO be ruined
al through life.
Another thing you must remember.
Never give Tom up. He might act so
dull and stupid that you would decide
to make HIM a preacher. but don't do
ii. Stick to him through thick and
thin. And last but not least, take
good care of his morals. He might be
very bad. but there is always chance
for his reform, and be ready to make
the best of it.
The audience was highly apprecia-
tive and the bishop was greeted with
frequent outbursts of applause.