Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-27
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Life Is and always win remain a battle.
IN the sweat OF his face shall man earn
his bread. Labor will ever be his por-
ton The wisdom Of Omnipotence has
so decreed
But the conditions OF life are chang
ing. The crowded, growing cities are
absorbing the rural population. The
Guys ways are less simple aud more
CSacting. our children must largely
meet life In the city, whore the fire is
hottest, on the most advanced line of
the battle OF ideas and the conflict of
methods. Life TO them will be broader
richer deeper more complex, than II
has been with w, And Just ms their
young hearts are beating somewhat
nore SOFTLY human than our own, and
Just as they must meet obstacles more
imminent than those which we shall
have encountered, 10 ought they to be
prepared by a train moro thorough and
an education more complete and sys-
tematic than our own has ever been.
That they may accomplish tasks 40
great. every attraction OF real work.
every legitimate incentive to progress
every just and worthy allurement
should be placed about the wonderful
I,the beautiful, the hitherto inaccessible
fields OF knowledge which II Is now
their destiny to traverse, their mission
TO explore, This Is the explanation of
the desire which lies back OF all those
efforts that are being made by the sup
porters Of education In our midst. And
! may at least plead In extenuatlon
OF any seeming severity OF ours hero.
OF any apparent harbhness or rlgldlty
OF discipline, that Il has never been
intended by way OF mere negative pun
ishmeDt, but has been looked upon as
the means for the real advancement
OF the true noble rational pleasures OF
student life, and TO- securing those
ideal conditions OF school work, with
out which our youth cannot accomplish
the heroic tasks which Providence now
places before them,
QUALITY OF OUR YOUTH.
It Is maintained by Judge Of the
supreme court OF Utah non-"Mor-
mon,' that no has beheld growing up
here u race OF very intelligent very no
bic young people, OF an average excel
lence somewhat higher than IN any
other place IN which he has lived or
visited, The mixture OF diverse races
here was bringing out. he declared, the
best qualities OF the respective ancestral
groups; and In his opinion II must fol-
low that the children, inheriting these
qualities, would possess them IN a
higher degree than aid their parents.
And So" he said, Il regard simply
from the standpoint OF biology the evi.
dent fact that a generation OF more
than usually gifted young people is
arising In our midst" Moreover, a
psychologist has observed that nj this
altitude the tendency OF the blood TO the
brain VIII produce greater develop
ment OF that organ and consequent
higher mentality and will power on an
average, than would BIO the case II our
youth lived az the more usual and lower
attitudes. The clear atmosphere, the
strong and almost constant sunlight,
the noble and expansive scenery, the
great hills ard mountain ranges, and
the four seasons so distinctly marked
as they are with us, must, in their turn
tend TO develop the higher imaginative
powers of the intellect. as well as those
impulses, feelings, emotions, and sem
| tlments that inspire a noble race.
therefore feel bound TO maintain that
even as the youth OF this community
are not by nature inferior, but rather, II
there Is any average difference, are
somewhat superior TO the average In
many other communities and that. in
asmuch as God and nature, as we may
reNefently Term the creative agencies Of
heaven and earth, have not failed IN
doing their part for those whom our
elders love 10 designate as the youth OF
Israel, even so we should not be lack
Ing In carrying out the manifest des-
tiny Of these young people--the useful
the honorable, the noble destiny which
God and nature have 80 plainly lndicat-
ed should be theirs.
In a word. then, you have our Sc
cret, We love and admire the youth
OF this people. We appreciate their
worth, and we discern, 10 some extent,
their destiny. For the work they will
have 10 do, no education can be too
rich, no training 700 thorough. Moth
Ing Is too good for them that II is pos
sible for us 10 provide. No buildings
are too elegant, no teachers are too
skillful, no appliances too costly.
There Is no music that Is too choice for
their ears, no words too good for their
hearts, no Ideals too high for their
souls. May their lives be filled with
beauty--with the beauties of holiness,
like the dew OF the morning" May