El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-13

New. H. w. moore prSbcneu Ii Gue
Presbyterian church last night from
text: "a teacher comes from Cod,
John III. 2. The speaker said there
is no nobler or more useful profession
than that of teaching. The school desk
should be as sacred as a throne and the
teacher as proud OF that position as a
king or queen. In the hands of the
school teachers of America rests the
future of our republic, and the battles
to be fought tomorrow by the senate,
the platform, ulpit, printing press and
ballot box are being won or lost today
under the school house roof. The
teachers work is fundamental work.
His work is structural. The teacher
reaches every phase of human
society. They build not for
today only, but for five, ten, twenty,
fifty years from today. They are
makers of manhood, woman cod, do
you know that last week in the Tn ted
States between sixteen aud'seventeen
million school children started to
school? Do you know that between
one and two million little ones from
five to seven years of age left their
mothers knee last week to sit for the
first time under the teachers care,
here are more thsn 900 school
teachers in the United STATES alone.
Texas sent to the public school rooms
last year over lis, 900 pupils, between
the ages of eight and seventeen. Texas
-pent last year over 2,o15 900 for pub
tic schOol education. There are be-
ween Ii, 900 and 1900 school teachers
in Texas alone. This shows the states
idea of education. 1t believes that
ignorance is the mother of crime, in
temperance, and o-e thousand social
evils. Education in the home, the
shop, at the DISK, in the pulpit. every
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ness.
We are living in an age of mind.
The days of brute power has gone for
ever. The future battles of the world
will not be fought with marching arm
les. the cannon and the drum beat. AS
Henry w. Grady has said, 1.-The future
battles of the world are to be fought by
the school house, the press, the ballot
box and platform. the scholar is the
champion. Learning is supreme. Wa
terloO was won at Oxford. Sedan at
Berliu.'' Not only the Intellect but
the moral nature. the heart must be
trained in an age when such great
powers as the torch. the knife, the re-
peatiug rifle and dynamite are within
the reach of all. Whether we have
revolution or evolution, peace or war,
depends largely on the disposition of
men and women. In our cities and
towns there is growing up a hoodlum
class, class of coarsa, rough men and
women upon whose moral culture much
depends There is the work of the
home, the school, the church, the
press Oh, the in fluence a teacher may
exert. The teacher has these pupils
five or six hours a day, five days week,
| thirty-six weeks a year, and ten to
| thirteen years of their lives. They
come to the teach RS with minds like
wax, and 60 away bearing granite i'm
pressions. Every boy and girl is q
| harp. The eacher has the key to each
string. She can tune these strings to
send forth such music as she wills. She
| can lead them gradually from the mis-
| ty lOwlands where truth is dim to hill
locks and mountains whence they can
see the great stretches OF history, the
green pastures OF literature and science.
| The home training and heredity must
| be taken into account, yet in many
instances the teachers power is SUI
preme.
| Honor your noble calling. Arnold
of Rugby, was d teacher. So was Gar
| field, Arthur and a dozen OF our pres
| delts. So was DR.. McCOsh, Mark
| Hopkins, Mary Lyon. So was Plato
and Pe-talozzi. So was Paul, the fiery
| Elijah, all the missionaries, 50 was
Jesus Christ. How many trace their
first desire to love high living to some
noble school teacher. ''Phillip OF
Macedon gave me life,' said Alexan
der, "but Aristotle, my teacher taught
me how to make the most of life The
personal magnetism of the teacher is
all-conquerinp: love for knowledge a
love for the pupil, a love to impart that
knowledge to one you love is an IT.
resistable power. Brains and heart
must go together. A teacher
who teaches only hook knowl
edge lacks much. The pupil is not al
intellect; he hss heart. Hold up be
fore the dull boy, the dull girl, the
poor boys and girls, the sickly boys ant
girls ideas of men and womel
who have overcome. Inspire them
thrill them. If you cannot reaci
them through the head try til,
heart. Be thorough, the teudenc