Arizona republican., 1898-06-14

pose your class. Wherever you are, whether in graded or ungraded schools, you will be working with ma terials that are the most sacred things
 on earth-the human soul And most of all should you be thankful for the privilege of reaching the human soul. If there is anything of strength or leadership in you, it is yours to put your whole heart into that little soul You are to rule reverently and if you reverence the divine possibilities in your own soul you Till reveren.r the
 divine possibilities in those souls en- trusted to your teaching to rever- ently rule the little lives that you have
 and to bring out the possibilities
 wrapped up in them, not only to rule them reyerently, but to guide them Iruthfully. You cannot try .co nard to be gentle. Oh, how many a boy has been spoiled for life because a will has
 been brought up against his. When he asked, 'Why?' you told him, It is none of your business why, I told you to do it. That is enough Did you eyer hear that? The teacher stands between the child and God. He is the interpreter. The Christ i'll the child to be developed, the power that is to be drawn out, and l say to you that it is yours as a teacher, to
 lead and guide them reverently-
 And if you teach not in graded school, but have command of a class where young men and women assem- Dle, it is still your duty to guide them
 truly, to build them broadly Don't
 be content with a narrow policy-with $65 a month. Don't be content that you get through and that possibly you will be hired next year. Build broad. Are you narrow? 'No,' you say, I am not. I know of only one kind of folk that are narrow They are these poor narrow, contracted Christians oh, mo- said the speaker laughingly, there are other folks who are narrow. There are narrow infidels' There are narrow people of all sorts. Don't get the idea that you can build broadly if you are
 not broad. If you are not comprehen sive yourself you cannot do it. You belong to that school, to- build it broadly. because you have to train them How truthfully can you do it? What is the meaning of 'train?' To teach is to cause to know to train | is to cause to do,' so you are to train your school to do the truth, to speak the truth, to love the truth. and lastly more than all else and including all
 else you are to teach them earnestly.
 "And now I want you to think Of this: You can never, by yourself, go
 feverentiy before the possibilities that | lie in the smallest child or the dullest mind. It may be a little freckled faced boy as ornery as they make them.
 ard yet that boy has in him the divine possibilities, possibilities that sweep
 gil the way from the devil to tte Son
 of God. What are you going to do
 with him? 1 tell you you had better ask yourself the questions, Am 1 fit
 to teach?' What are the motives that
 prompt me to do it? Am I a teacher,
 or am I not?' If you do not intend to look at these things you are not fit to
 teach. l would like just for moment to again remind you that you are not your own. If you will keep that in
 your life, if you will remember it and
 act upon it, if you will daily pursue your researches along the line of that progress-if you do that, the facts will
 ring in your ears, constantly you will hear it, 'Ye are not your own,' and 1 there will come to be in your life a feeling of divine companionship that
 will hold you always steady and true 1 to the task that you have got to do. Society will be better, prayer will
 have meaning in it it never had be- l fore, and the crimson-yeined marble temples you marked upon are com
 plete as the temples of greater souls Let it be your motto. 'Ye are not
 your own,' that you will so build your selves into human society that it will
 all come back to you many fold and your lives will be better and deeper
 and mount up and up until man and God will be one.
 God bless you, class of '98, and let me speak the text and say goodbye,
 'Ye are not your own May it ring and sting and cling and compel until
 white snow drifts mount your temples
 and the topmost stone Of your tower of character becomes the foundation stone of the throne of God"
 There will be no exercises tomorrow night. The day will be taken up with examinations