The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-03-09
A TEACHERS WORK
Rev. DR.. Talmage PreaChes on
the Profession of Education.
The Privilege of Guiding Young
Minds and the Duty of Con-
scientiOus and Self Sac
rincing Labor.

Copyright, 1906. by Louis Klopschl
los ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 2i.-ln this
sermon the preacher pays tribute to the
work Of those who are molding the
character and shaping the career Of the
men and women Of the future to the
teachers Of America, the text chosen
being Romans xii, I, He that teacheth,
on teaching"
The adage, Every man 10 his trade,
is not child of the nineteenth or TWEEN
tleth century. Its cradle was rocked by
the murmuring waters Of the Pison and
the GlhOn and the Hiddekel and the Eu-
pirates rivers when the world was
young. Ii comes down TO us with gray
| hairs but with stout limbs Of a "Wan-
| dering jew" Its voice has been heard
upon every hilltop and In every valley
since Abel became a herdsman and
| Cain a tiller of the soil. No sooner did
man combine with man In communities
or associations to protect himself from
| foreign foes than he became a special
ist He said to some members Of his
community, you be our soldiers TO
| protect US In time Of war" He said 10
others. you be our legislators and
make our laws" He said to others,
You be our priests and teach US about
God" He said to others, you be our
physicians or medicine men and care
for us while we are sick" He said 70
others, you be our sailors and navi-
gate our ships and bring 10 US our mer-
chandise from afar." He said to the
wives and mothers. "You be our house
keepers and nurses and splnners and
rear our young and cook our food and
weave our clothing" He said TO others,
You be our farmers or our architects
and raise our crops or build our TEN
pies and homes and aqueducts" And
everywhere the necessities Of life have
compelled man not to do all things well,
but to do one thing for the benefit Of
ALL Thus as the centuries have gone on
man has more and more become spe
clalist.
More than that, as the world has adj
vanced in its development trades and |
professions have been divided and sub |
divided into specialties. Once the fam |
ily physicians duties were almost as |
numerous as the tlnts Of the rainbow. |
lie was not only doctor, but he was |
surgeon and dentist and pharmacist |
and Oculist as well. If a man had n
toothache IL was the village physician
who pushed In the forceps and pulled
ont the decayed molar. IL the patient |
needed medicine the physician not only
wrote the prescription, but compound
ed the drugs. If the leg had to be am
putated It was the family physician
who drove in the knife. II the aged
mans eyes were in trouble II was the
family physician who cut away the
cataract or fitted on the glasses. Now
all these different duties are done by
specialists. The average family physi-
clan would no more expect TO be the
surgeon or the ocullst or the pharma-
cist than he would expect to DO the
work Of the lawyer or the electrician
or the mining engineer. In other
words, "every man to his trade" is an
adage which has divided and subdivld-
ed and kept on redividing the human
race into its different groups until
men by natural adaptation learn TO do
one thing well rather than n dozen
things poorly.
Paul nearly 1000 years ago recog-
nzed the social law, Every man to
his trade" Writing to the Romans he
said. Having, then, gifts differing ac-
cordlng to the grace that is given to
us" That means, having special pow
ers Of brain, Of body and Of conse-
Grafton, let us do the work God has !
given 20 us 10 do each in his own line
and in his own sphere. Then Paul goes |
on 70 enumerate the different lines Of
work 10 which God has called different
men. Among those different lines Of
work he mentions that Of teaching.
He seems 10 say: 20 man, II God has
called you to the teachers throne, give
10 your work the very best energies Of
your llfel Never neglect your noble
profession one instant" And Of all
he professions and works Paul here
mentions do not believe there IS one !,
more important than that of teaching.
Thus this morning | select a mighty y
subject. May God help us to show the =.
,ower Of "the teachers throne" and
low we should honor It's occupant and
'ecognlze the responsibility Of the work
hat Is done there and It's valuel
The first great reason why we send
,ur children to school is to wake up I,
be mind and put It into touch with y J,
he outside world. That mental awak- =
ming is no easy task to perform. The =
word education" comes from the Lat ,,
n word "educo." meaning "to bring =
,ut." Education means literally" 4
ays the photographer. "the educing, u
he leading out or drawing out Of the u
atent powers of an individual" But =
n order to draw out you must first u
mt In. You must open the avenues Of @
upon which thoughts" az @
harioteers can harness up their fash "
ng eyed verbal chargers and drive. o
'ou must have the great wires con- a
getting brain with brain. as the Allan 1
ic cable connects the old world with il
be new. In other words. the school a
eacher must mold the child's mind so
bat II can read and write and multi Il
ly and spell. az
The well Of knowledge always seems b.
, me like that great deep well on your y,
lther's farm. In order 10 make the 81
'ork Of drawing the water from that a
'ell a little easier for your mother di
our father bought an iron pump and Il
ut It IN the shed Just outside Of the m
itchen. But though that pump was al
opposed to relieve your mother, II in
'as the pest Of your life In the first tu
lace, inevitably the family would use st