Milford chronicle., 1906-05-04

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| formed that the Macedonian hero had
/ conquered the world before his age.
In short, my little school. like the great
world, is made up of kings, politicians.
divines, Ii. DIS fops, buloons, fid-
dlers, sycophants, fools, coxcombs,
chimney sweepers and every other
character known in history or seen in
the world" In other words. just as
John Adams, the teacher, could fore
see the future Of his scholars by their
actions anG predictions at school, so
the child himself, by the inward work
ings of e n9sd and soul. can feel and
see, thoussl Ai-Iay be dimly, what God
wants him TO do.
visidns of Youth.
Oh, the visions of youth! How i'm
portant they are for the development
Of the child. In the book of Proverbs
we read, Where there is no vision the
people perish" That means when the
people have no ideals lowering before
them, where the sculptor cannot see a
more perfect statue in dim outline
standing beside the stone he has chisel-
ed, and the musician cannot hear a
sweeter song than that which he has
composed, and the reformer cannot see
a more perfect Utopia than that in
which he lives. then the development
of those people is retrograding instead
of advancing, involuting instead Of ev-
oluting. But, my friends, if it is es-
sential for the developed man to have
perfect visions ever before him, how
much more important is it for the un-
developed child to have visions before |
him! These visions, when they come |
from God, are not like the unaccount- |
able mirages Of the desert or like air |
castles builded in the sandy wastes. |
They are rational visions builded by /
the angel of hope saying to the child:
Boy, girl. with thy physical and men,
Eal and spiritual nature God bids thee
10 reach out to accomplish these things
which thou now seest. Look up, look
'ut, hook on" Frances HOdgson Bur
lett, looking into the dim past and
writing the history of her girlhood
lays in that fascinating book called
The One l Knew Best of All,' is not
eeing more realistic character than
10 some children when they look into
he dim future and by reason of theirs
hysical and mental and spiritual tend
ncies picture themselves as some
ay being lawyers or doctors or min
sters or merchants or bankers or in
entors or musicians or statesmen or
oets or sOngsters or reformers. These
hildren by such visions hear the call
Dr future work. They hear it so clear
? and distinctly that in their minds
lere is no doubt as to that caH COM
g direct from the throne of God. .
But we must not stop here in the dis
lssion of this mighty theme. 1t is
cry important to have the visions of
Outh, but it is just as important to
ave the child developed Alright after
lose first visions have come and gone. l l
hese first visions Of childhood always :
em to me like the little green shoots
hich spring up out Of the ground. :
are for them. Give them plenty Of :
might, and let not the winds handle
EN- too roughly, or the cold freeze
EN-, or the droughts parch them, and d 4
ey will change themselves inte the u
pings then after awhile into the Il
out young trees and then into the d
ant oaks but crush the roots or de-
10Y the first visions and you may =
in the whole after development.
# l might use another illustration,
= visions of childhood impress me
e the delicate films or plates which
: photographer puts into his instru- >
mt when he is about to take a pic ]
e. He carefully guards those films
IN all light or else they are destroy
When I was travelling around the
rid l had quite a number of these
Is Of films. did not know how to -
e for them. The result was that m
en- l reached Calcutta, India, and on
mt to have my negatives developed 81
ound that l had nothing but blank to
Der. Then after the pictures have Sh
n taken the Photographer takes the tn
satives into a dark room, where, by
h certain acids. he develops them. Or
IN he gives to you the photographs, ed
ich you place upon your bureaus or Of
g upon your walls. So with the mi
IS Of the childs brain. The divine WI
shines upon them The negatives 70
then appear. They are Gods first
ons, but oh. so delicate! They Of -
can be rubbed out almost at a &25
oh. We had better beware how we AJ
yh at or denounce the child. IA
In the Temple. AS
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