The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-27

1t was s: 10 o'clock last night before
Colonel Parker's car arrived at Pro-
gress hall, and a few moments later
before his splendid lecture on Work
began The audience was, as usual,
quite large The lecturer said in part:
The subject Work is harp of a
thousand strings. Work that produces
something for mankind is the one cen
trail thing. Blessed is the man who
works. There are two great classes
of workers in this world. The differ
ence in the reflex action between them,
however, is work There is a class
which realizes a thing fully and then
initiates and reprOduces it for others.
The shoemaker, the tailor, are some.
Copyist. Another class of workers
must originate. The artisan supplies
general demand, a necessity. The
originator, on the other hand, meets
special cases. This simply defines the
two classes of workers.
These workers have characters tics.
The artisan learns his trade, and set
ties down to his life vocation. But
when the artist appears with some
thing better, he has to start again.
Look at the CONSERVATION among the
spinning wheel workers when the sew
ing machines appeared. Copying pro-
duces conservatism; the artist cries out
to everything higher and better to help
him. The artist must be original all
the time. When an artist drifts into
the grooves of the artisan, he is to be
criticised. A medical student may do
this. Some of these are called quack
DOCTORS Medicine is an everlasting
study. 1t is a great profession. Arti-
san methods viii not do. Every new
case brings new conditions. Study
should not stop in this life surely.
When properly followed medicine be-
comes q beautiful art.
Legal students frequently become
copyists. They make ease" lawyers.
Going into court they may say: Your
honor here is my case in these law
books. Lawyers must know Roman
law, English law, their own law, and
all the law of the world.
Many preachers are artisans. They
go through the perfunctOry perform
ances and think they are doing their
duty. They have OratOricaI powers,
but as eXpounders are mere cOpyists.
A minister must know God and man,
He must know all that goes on around
him.
Art is entirely personal The art
ist studies nature, sees some beauties
beyond the power of others, and then
reveals it with his brush or his chisel.
That tells humanity something; draws
the mind away to nature and beauty.
That is true art. Art never can be
copied; and the glory Of it is in its
being personal.
Every material discovery means the
foundation of some spiritual good.
Think Of Watt and his discovery Of
steam. Look at the railroad trains
crossing continents, carrying people
from oppression into Gods free air and
following them up with religion and
education and enlightenment. Take
StevensOn's idea Of the railroad engine
and think of il. Mr.. Gardiner, of CHI
cagO. said that Fulton's steamboat
would never work.
There can not be an artisan in the
profession of teaching. An artisan
teacher must be fixed; and that will
be fatal to his work. That old mechan-
ical idea that you must have the order
of suppression in the schools is wrong.
No mind can pain the artist teacher.
No one ever arose to the pitch of art
who worked for money. 1t is a heart
work, a soul work.
What stands in the way Of the de-
velOpment of the artist teacher? The
people. The people cling to artisan
methods Of teaching and retard
growth. Mothers must give up tenn
perance work and study education.
The w. c. T. L. is a good thing, but