The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-13
With heart for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait"

With heart for any fate.
 Still achieving, still pursuing.
 Learn to labor and to wait"
 Srtiplin said;
 "It is pleasure, I am sure. that we have with us tonight a representative Of the City of BrotherJy Love-a national character, educationally. We appreciate more than We can tell the honor of having him leave his work and come such a great distance to be among us. Ladies and gentlemen, [ present Dean Pennl- man."
 pr. Pennimans address was OH ''The Teacher: His Profession and It's Mis- slon." and he said in part:
 Pennman's Address.
 "It Is a great pleasure--1 esteem 1t very highly-to be with yon to talk about our profession, for I think we have the right to call our work profession. There are a great many considerations in our work One of the greatest considerations Is the fact that the life of boy or a girl in all the centuries and millenums, Is the same throughout.
 Dr. Penniman read Il letter from d boy to his father. which had been found lately on the Nile, written in the second or third century. It illustrated that the boy had the same outlook on life. the same love for his father that boys of today have. The profession of teaching school was the highest ordained by AL mighty God Next to the paternal and the maternal rela tionship that of the teacher was the closest and most important in moulding the life of q boy or girl. Words worth, one of the most influential of the TDa. I 4 the desire to be remembered as teacher or nothing.
 There were two qualities a teacher must possess, he said. the love for nature in It's different aspects and the love for his work.
 Some Are Limited.
 People of strong prejudice and temper are limited when their work comes. to be compared with one who loves his work No teacher can be successful who does not love boys and suls, Kind words often decide many boys fate. In these days teaching has become profession. The day has passed when those who fail in everything else can turn to teach- ing regardless of fitness. Continuing the speaker said:
 Ut is little short of crime-if short at alto commit boy or a girl to an incapable teacher. One of the great qual- ities necessary is personal fitness. knowl- edge of the subject Is almost taken for granted. But it is the wonderful intiu- ence of personality that counts. Two teachers stand forth as the greatest of all teachers-Christ and Socrates. If you study His peda2ogue. His method of pre- senting truth, you will find It was all in His wonderful personality-that He reach ed the hearts of men. With these two be- fore iis we can never underestimate the greatness of a teachers g mission. In Eng land they still talk of Edwin Arnold and Edwin Thring.
 '.If we have tempers, If we have nerves. If we can not love boys and girls, If we arc old--and age isn't 6 matter of years, 1t is in feeling that we grow old-we are unfit to teach. Now this Edwin Thring had great power in teaching boys He had q great understanding of the sim pie psychology of boy His second great power-one we ought all 10 aspire 10 have-the intersity Of feeling for the worth of life Thoreau said T am not afraid that I shall overeshmate the greatness of life. but that l shall not be up 10 the great occasion, which f. is
 Would Not Last.
 "If the teachers do mol do their work well this republic would not last through half fl century. We are laying the stable foundation stones on which the future must rest. Mayor Mcclellan said, speak Ing 10 a teachers convention: What we need is moi SD much mon who do AS mon who think.
 ''The, teachers of this country are doing more than all of the bankers and brokers put together. for they are entrusted with the richest treasures on earth.
 .It IS not fine buildings that make schools Out of inadequate buildings, in- adequately equipped, come boys well and splcndidly trained. After all. it is the great personality of the teacher overflow ane with love for his pupils that leaves