Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-29
Calnage
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaae, d. D.

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character and shaping the career of the
men and women Of the future, to the
teachers OF America, the text chosen
being Romans xii, Z, HE that teacheth,
on teaching"
The adage. Every man TO his trade"
is not a child Of the nineteenth or twen-
tieth century. It's cradle was rocked by
the murmuring waters of the Pison and
the Gihon and the Hiddekel and the Eu-
pirates rivers when the world was
young. 1t 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
list. He said to some members of his
community, You be our soldiers to
protect us in time OF war" He said to
others, "You be our legislators and
make our laws" He said to others,
You be priests and teach us about
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physicians or medicine men and care
for us while we are sick" He said to
others, You be our sailors and navi-
gate our ships and bring to us our mer-
chandise from affair."" He said to the
wives and mothers, .'You be our house
Keepers and nurses and spinners and
rear our young and cook our food and
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''You be our farmers or our architects
and raise our crops or build our tenn
piles 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
mar has more and more become a spe-
cialist.
More than that, as the world has ad-
vanced in its development trades and
professions have been divided and sub
divided into specialties. Once the fam
lily physicians duties were almost as
numerous as the tints OF the rainbow.
He was not only doctor, but he was
surgeon and dentist and pharmacist
and oculist as well. IF a man had a
toothache it was the village physician
who pushed in the. forceps and pulled
out the decayed molar. If the patient
needed medicine the physician not Only
wrote the prescription, but compound.
ed the drugs. If the leg had, to be am
putated II was the family physician
who drove in the knife II the aged
mans eyes were in trouble it 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 oculist 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 subdivid-
ed and kept on redividing the human
race into it's different groups until
men by natural adaptation learn to do
one thing well rather than a dozen
things poorly.
Livery van 10 HIS TRADE.
Paul nearly 1000 years ago recog-
nized the social law, Every man to
his trade" Writing TO the Romans, he
said, Having. then, gifts differing &C
cording to the grace that is given to
{. rs" That means, having special pow
ers of brain, of body and of conse-
Grafton, let US do the work God has
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and in his own sphere. Then Paul goes
on to enumerate the different lines OF
work TO which God has called different
Among those different lines Of
work he mentions that of teaching
he seems to A9y; 80 man, if God ha:
called you to the teachers throne. give
TO your work the very best energies o.
your life! Never neglect your noble
profession one instant" And Of al
the professions and works Paul here
mentions | do not believe there is ont
more important than that of teaching
Thus this morning / select a mighty
subject. May God help us to show the
power of 1.-THE teachers throne" ant
how we should honor its occupant anC
recognize the responsibility of the WORK
that Is done there and its value!
The first great reason why we senC
our children to school is to wake NJ
the mind and put it into touch Will
the outside world. That mental awak
ening is no easy task to perform. The
word education comes from the Lat
I'm word "educo.' meaning ito bring
out" Education means literally
SAYS the photographer, 'the educing
the leading out or drawing out Of the
latent powers Of an Individual" Bur
I'm order 10 draw out you must frs,
put In. You must open the avenues o.
knowledge upon which Thoughts a
characters can harness up their fash
ing eyed verbal chargers and drive
You must have the great wires con
Meeting brain with brain. as the Atlan
tic cable connects the old world wit
the new. In other words. the school
teacher must mold the child's mind $
that IL can read and write and multi
ply and spell.