Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-24

young man whose brush has done this
will some day outmaster his MASTER
But, though 1t may be great pleasure
for genius to develop genius, yet
ninety-nine hundredths Of all scholars
in all public school cassrooms 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 Otter
complete nervous collapse.
But, oh, my brother what is the sac
riflce Of an earthly teacher for her pl.
pills compared to that which the Divine
Teacher has made for us? Is there any
patience Ike unto his patience7 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
days and weeks and months over one
pupil teaching him how to pronounce q
oihS'N NONCl SOuiiti. IDut GItdt as LII.
Gallaudet's sacrifices We're can his pa.
thence be compared to my Lords? AS
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 q
death of 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 sacrifc-
ing teacher He gave his life for his
gospel students. He died that we might
live.
Cbrists Greater Purpose.
But the Divine Teacher Christ has n
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 parts
of the earth. He looks upon his stu
dents with respect to their future, as
every true instructor ought to do.
once read of famous teacher who
never entered his classroom but he al
ways took off his hat and bowed be
fore his scholars as though he was
coming into the presence of Il king
for he said, mo one knows what
future ruler or leader of the people
may be developing under my touch
Therefore l wish to show my students
proper respect" Christ in the same
way is looking at his gospel students
through the eyes of prophecy. He is
the Divine Instructor, who teaches his
disciples that through them we mQy
learn the way of life. He is teaching
his disciples in order that the count
less multitudes, cropping about In the
darkness of heathendom. may through
us be brought into saving touch with
the cross.
TO duplicate the teachers knowledge
and life in the lives of his students is
always the far reaching purpose of true
teaching. Why did General Samuel
Chapman Armstrong found the Hanp-
ton school near Old Point Comfort, and
why was that other Indian school es-
tabllshed in Carlisle Pa? 1t was in
order to take the Indian boys and girls
from the far west to the east. there to
hrit1tr than into tntrRl with fhn u-l q
mans teachers and the white mans
ways and then to send those Indian
boys back TO their tribes in the hope
that the civilized red man would in
turn civiliZe his brothers and sisters
Why does Booker 7. Washington's work
have the hearty support of the white
men both of the north and the south
Because he is trying to duplicate his
plain, common sense, practical life in
the lives of his students. lie is not
trying to teach the doctrine that the
white and the black races should in
termarry. He is the apostle preaching
that life means work; that the black
race will never lift itself by political
agitations. but only by its members be.
ing good walters and coachmen and
honest laborers and provident farmers
and Intelligent wives and mothers. lie
Is preaching "the gospel of the tooth
brush" He does not believe man
colored or white, can be respectable
and be chronicaly dirty. Such is the
Duplicating purpose of Alabama's fore
most negro educator. Now my friends
Jesus Christ as divine teacher should
have duplicating power in the lives
of his students. 1t should be found ir
the lives of his processing disciples, ir
the lives of some of US who have beer
crowding the gospel classroom for the
last ten, twenty-yes, even thirty and
forty years. Christ's duplicating pow
er should be found in us, because
through us the gospel must be sent tc
some sinful and some lost soul to whom
otherwise 1t may never be sent at all.
For the Weak and Helpless.
We have often read how heroic deed
In martial life have saved an army 70
an earthly king. Can We not realiz.
how our deeds as the representative
Of Christ can draw men to or driY,
them away from the cross? Man.
years ago a French army was battling
under the hot and blasting Algerian
sun. The forced marches and the coun
| ter marches which that army was com
| PEELED to take were enough to kill al
African negro, let alone a European
Then in order to increase the horro