The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-05-17

oStuhdtolJ, tHluk CitdIlJ, tuiuk cpI-
rectly, that you may be able to live
out your life to its largest measure
with happiness to yourself and bless.
ing to your neighbors.
One point more; il you educate
mans body and make him light
fingered and educate bis head and
make him clever and quick witted,
what have you il you stop there ?
Only an exceedingly capable rascal,
an exceedingly clever rascal, with
willy, supple body and mind fit for
any ingenuity. But il you educate
mans spirit to believe that he
ought to be the largest and best that
man can be, then you have we'll
rounded man, clear headed, good
hearted, able to live Alright, making
life blessing to himself and others.
Now few words TO those of you
who are teachers, as to what you may
be. l like that thought OF the boy
about the schoolhouse. | like DIR.
Frost's remark that the old log
sehoolhouse was good. But | began
TO think of this: 1t is said that once
upon time there was state of
affairs when the priests of a certain
people had only wooden chslices,
humble and lacking in art, lacking
in intrinsic value or merit; no beauty.
And by and by wealth came, pros
perity came, and everything was
hourishing, and they had chalices Of
gold. And it was said that when
the chalices were made of wood they
had golden priests and when the
chalices were OF gold the priests had
all become wooden men. Don't trust
too much to the big, beautiful school
house, lest the teacher may become a
wooden teacher, lacking in heart, in
spirit and in soul. The gold must
be in you and with you if you are to
lift up the hearts Of the young chill
dren.
/ remember some years ago in
England | went to see the Derby, the
great horse race. / suppose it is not
wicked TO go to horse race. never
could see that it was Especially il
your horse came out ahead. But
there at the Derby were young colts
under three years old, eighteen start
ers on one great track, trained for
less than three years, and the race of
mile and a half run in less than
three minutes. Those eighteen colts
came laundering down where was
i can hear them pounding still and
the one that won the Derby came in
ahead in the last two seconds. His
thoroughness brought him out ahead
in just the last three great leaps. A
good many young people viii stick
to thing until they are near the end
and then let go, when just the last
bit was needed to make it right.
Some years ago | gave a small sum
in prizes to school boys who would
pick the biggest hea Is Of the oats
and wheat and SOW them again and
get better crops. Then / asked one
Of my friends for $4,000 to give for
prizes. He gave the money. That
was a big sum, but it is a big
country. We go one-sixth of the way
around the globe. We have more
land than you have, but Canada is
bigger than the States in every way!
l am reminded of one of your men
who said your great country stretched
from the aurora borealis way down
TO some constellation in the south,
and from some distant sky point in
the east through to the end of the
second day after the day of judgment
in the west Still we have big
country up there.
So | had these 439 boys picking
the biggest heads and sowing the
seed and getting better crops. And
all this started in the school house.
Now have a nephew named Alfred
Wheaton, and he was in this compe-
tition; and he had come out first for
two years, and the prize was to be
800 He was rather easy going
chap and he just failed to pick out
the big heads of the crop for the
third year; and when il was reaped
he could not find the big heads, and
so lost the 500 prize. He was going
to school then. | sent him to college
for two more years, and there he did
the very same thing finished
things quite as he ought to-was not
thorough enough. | said: alfred,
you'd better go and begin to earn
living. l have mothered you long
enough Though his mother was still
living; | am making you SO that you
depend upon other people and are
not thorough in yourself" That was
FIVE years ago. The other day had
a letter from him; "My dear uncle
Now / SOC I am sorry | was an slack