Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-11
SAYS MANUAL
TRAINING IS OLD
MISSIONARY GIVEN CREDIT
FOR DISCOVERY
Rev William Horace Day, in Sermon,
Asserts That Americans Taught
Turks to Work With Their
Hands in 1886

AT the First Congregational church
last night Rev. William Horace Day
gave the last sermon of the course ON
Modern Heroes Of the Faith" He
spoke on the life of Cyrus Hamln of
Constantinople as the man who dis
covered the value of manual training
as part of education. lie said in
part:
This country has tS6 great manual
training schools where training of the
hands is coupled with training of the
head In producing the highest form of
education. California has reason to
be proud of her San Luis Oblspo Poly
technic. Los Angeles has Just COM
pleted her splendid polytechnic high
school where thirty teachers and over
1000 students are being trained on the
most modern lines.
This evening / want to take you
back to the starting point of this idea
in the life of Cyrus Hamin, who did
what many an other missionary has
done. in meeting his own foreign mis-
Sionary problems. 1t was in the Turkish
empire that the beginnings were to be
made, from which America should i'm
prove her educational system beyond
OlleF peoples.
Young People Are Fortunate
THE young people of Los Angeles
have manual training because of the
decision a young country boy reached
AS he sat in the corner of the pew in
Or. Ieyson's Bible class in Portland,
Maine He there decided he would be-
gin to follow Christ and to live his life
to the glory of God. That led him to
hn mil tn hp
where God could not only use him in
the primary task of persuading ORR
entails to follow Christ. but to train
him i'm new idea which was to en-
rich his, the republic from which he
came.
"In the seminary which he esta b.
lished at Bebek he set up a lathe and
work bench. The pupils were without
money as they were driven out of
their homes because they wanted TO he
educated. How to lead 10 self-help
rather than IL dependence upon the
charity of others. In 1914 COnStanti-
lople had no chimneys and they were
taught to make stovepipe as we'll as
other sheet iron products which We're
easily sold and the self-respeCt of
these students assured.
In 1916, at the urging of tho ear, all
protestants were put under the ban.
Maine Yankee was equal to the emer-
gency. He conceived the idea of max
ing sweet bread, and after some ex-
perimenting the starving church mem
bers were taught to do the work. Con-
stantinople had "a new quality Of bread,
each loaf overweight, sweet and fresh.
Made Bread for Soldiers
"'rhc industrial support of the per-
secuted was settled. Soon after the
Crimean war broke out. At Scutari
n great hospital was started in an old
barracks and by some chance the
authorities found the bread sent out
by the mission bakery, and this bread
must be supplied for the sick.
This missionary educator was be-
ing trained between the years 1874 and
1856 to see that Il short period of
skilled labor with the hands. coupled
with mental activity, was producing
results far superior to those attained
under the old method. After eighteen
years he came home on vacation. He
preached in Maine and other New
England states, he visited Worcester
on many occasions Americans heard
the story for the first time of the i'm
dustrial education. If it was so valu-
able in Turkey why not have the best
things for American boys and girls ?
In 1860 he visited home once more,
seeking the endowment of an American
college modelled on the lines of Bow
dcin, Maine, plus the new plan of in
dustrial training. Again he visited the
principal cities. In Worcester the idea
was taking root and five years later
money was given for the first Amer
icah manual training school in that
city out of the brain of Il consecrated
American, working on the shore OF
the Bosphorus, came the idea which is
doing so much to advance education
in the United States. You who find
your own culture better because OF
various forms of manual training have
TO thank missionary of the American
hoard-Cyrus Hamlin"