Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-09-21


send their children TO school in order to
get rid of them as well as to have their
brains developed. They cannot stand
the boys racket at home, so they ex-
pect the public teacher TO supply the
neglected maternal discipline. God pity
the young graduate of the normal
school. who herself is hardly old enough
to be a mother, and yet has to keep in
line every day thirty or forty boys
and girls. most of whom have not yet
learned what the word obedience"
means!
Then estimate the thickness of the
skull which every year the teacher
has TO pry open 10 let in the intellec-
tual light. 1t must be great pleasure
for the teacher. who is a genius. to de-
velop q genius; for a Lord Chatham to
have for his disciple a William Pitt;
for a Franz List to guide the fingers
of an Anton Rubinstein over the ivory
keys; for an Ignatius Loyola to mold a
Francis Xavier; for a Peter Paul Ru-
bens to have for his pupil an Anthony
Vandyke. One day, after having ex.
amined some of his famous students
work. the great Flemish master delight
edly turned to his class and said: "a
greater than RubenS is here! The
young man whose brush has done this
will some day outmaster his master"
But, though it may be a great pleasure
for genius to develop a genius. yet
ninety mine hundredths of all scholars
in all public school classrooms are gen.
fuses. They are not only children of
ordinary intelligence. but boys and
girls. many of them below the ordinary.
All of those scholars must be develop
ed. This accounts for the teachers eX-
| hauStion. Then the strain. Then often
| complete nervous collapse.
But, oh, my brother. what is the sac
rifce of an earthly teacher for her pu-
pills compared to that which the Divine
| Teacher has made for us? Is there any
| patience like unto his patience? Any
| forgiveness greater than his forgive
ness? Any martyrdom like unto his
martyrdom? During the life of the late
| Thomas Gallaudet. that noble Christ
| like teacher sent by God to serve the
American deaf mutes. he often spent
|
pupil teaching him how to pronounce a
single vowel sound. But great as DR..
Gallaudet's sacrifices were can his pa
tience be compared to my Lords? AS
a Divine Teacher has not Christ spent
years and years and years trying to
teach us how to speak just two words
in the right way. Our Father| We
read how the missionary teachers have
been martyred in China in the defense
of their pupils. But was there ever a
death of a teacher like unto that of the
martyrdom of my Christ? In order to
teach US how to attain eternal life has
he not sacrificed for us in his wounded
hands and wounded feet and wounded
head and gaping side. into which the
Roman soldier thrust his spear? Yes
My Lord and my God is a self sacrific-
ing teacher. He gave his life for his
gospel students. He died that we might
live.
Chrfst's Greater Purpose.
But the Divine Teacher Christ has @
far greater purpose than to merely
save his gospel students. He teaches
his disciples, who sit at his feet in or
der that they may become like him
how they in turn may carry his mes
! sage and truth to the farthermOst part:
: of the earth. He looks upon his stu
!, dents with respect to their future, a:
: every true instructor ought to do.
once read Of a famous teacher wht
I never entered his classroom but he al
ways took off his hat and bowed be
I fore his scholars as though he wa
coming into the presence of a king
, "for," he said, mo one knows wha
5 future ruler or leader of the peopl
: may be developing under my touch
Therefore l wish to show my student
proper respect" Christ in the sam
way is looking at his gospel student
. through the eyes of prophecy. He
] the Divine Instructor, who teaches hi
:. disciples that through them we ma
. ! learn the way of life. He is teachin
l.. his disciples in order that the count
s less multitudes. cropping about in th
e darkness of heathendom. may throug
: us be brought into saving touch wit
d the cross.
e To duplicate the teachers knowledg
e and life in the lives Of his students
e always the far reaching purpose of tru
: teaching. Why did General Samut
o Chapman Armstrong found the HamI
e ton school near Old Point Comfort an
J. why was that other Indian school e:
r tablished in Carlisle. Pa? 1t was
% order to take the Indian boys and CIR
r from the far west to the east. there
7. bring them into touch with the whit
l. mans teachers and the white man
e ways and then to send those India
l. boys back to their tribes in the hOr
r. that the civilized red man would
ic turn civilize his brothers and sister
r Why does Booker T. Washington's wor
&c have the hearty support of the whit
Is men both of the north and the south
4. Because he is trying to duplicate b
st plain. common sense. practical life
the lives of his students. He is n,