Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22

captured by an Indian, becomes an
Indian after all; he is dwarfed and
stunted, he partakes through the ser -es
and resources of his life's surround
ings. Not to make the contrast too
striking, remove at an early age the
child of cultured parents. establish
him in the midst of dissipation. let all
his surroundings he criminal and i'm.
moral, and 1t would be contrary to ex-
perience to find in him a lofty type of
all the virtues. The boy who acquires
habit of reading prurient literature
and continues 1t in manhood Is very
apt to become sensual and a moral
wreck. Observation has proved
that the reading of local daily paper
In years gone by has demoralized
whole households, and uprooted the
faith which had withstood years Of
persecution and variety of trial. A
scientific reader lin the minds eye) Is
so saturated with the nomenclature
of science that greater truths are hair
lost in the verbiage of words. An In
dividual raised until past maturity in
the Methodist church receives the Cos
pei and dies at good old age, but In
his phraseology and quotations he was
Methodist to the day of his DEATH
Thousands who gather to Utah from
foreign lands never master the Ian
guage of their adopted country. All
over the wide world are persons from
the different counties of England who
never lose the twang Of early days; the
Scotchman, Irishman. Welshman, after
enlarged travel and much human
friction hardly ever become changed
in tone and accent-though they are
cosmopolitan in thought and donation
allied in habit or action.
Associations mental. moral and re-
ligious do affect the man. His educa-
tion, his development. his aspirations,
are very much under the control of
surroundings. and as most observers
think, the results are seen and real
lied most easily and keenly when the
discipline and surroundings are applied
and purified in the morning hours OF
youth. Parents, teachers, guardians
Of the unsophisucated and unperverted
minds of youth. should make 1t as
much matter of anxious solicitude
that companionship. including mental
and spiritual food, shall be nourishing
and healthy. as pure and unadulterated
as are the supplies for securing Wig
orous, long-llved. perfect physique
The I4atter-day Saints cannot build to
their destiny on any other foundation.
The end they seek cannot be achieved
only through unremitting, undaunted
spiritual and religious faith and habit.
Schools and institutions can only min
lister in this direction. as their control
lers comprehend the work on hand anu
the essentials of success.
True education aims to round the
man: 1t viii not cultivate or overhaul
ance one part of the fabric at the ex-
pense OF another nor can 1t ignore.
neglect or belittle attributes or facul-
ties as they are. True educators,
whether divines, scientists or special
professors, must think and seek unit
eddy To harmonize the demands of or
gauizatlon which includes the physical.
moral, mental and religious, that the
pupil or student may be thoroughly
furnished unto every good word and
work."
Broad men. whose equilibrium is
above suspicion. and whose comprehen-
sion OF man from divine sources, are
needed more now than at any other po-
tential period of human history. for
everything uheory or practice) that
can be shaken win be, in the fervent
and searching processes Of the great
last days. when tho to-be-taught are
very numerous and the teachers but a
few.