Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-05-31

thoughts,
Aud every sweetness that inspired their z
hearts,
Aud minds, and muses. on admired
themes;
II a. the heavenly quintessence they still
From their immortal flowers of poesy,
Wherein, as in u mirror, We perceive
The highest resches of u human wit;
II these had made one poems period.
Aud all combined in beauty's worthiness,
Yet should there hover ia their restless
heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder, at
the best,
| Which into words no virtue can digest"
IL. 1t is time. then, to pronounce
more distinctly fixed connection be-
tween teachers unconscious tuition |
and the foregoing discipline of his life.
What he is to impart, at least by this
delicate and secret medium, he must be.
" No admittance for shams" is stamped
on that sanctuary's door. Nothing can
come out that has not gone in Celestial
opportunities avail us nothing unless we
have ourselves been educated up to their
level. If an angel come to converse
with US OH the mountain top he must
find our tent already pitched in that
upper air. Each day recites a lesson for
. which all preceding days were prep
aration. For the exhibition days Of
Providence there is no preconcerted col
!. .oquy-no hasty retrieving on the eve OF
the examination.
III. My third and final point is that as
i the. unconscious tuition emanates from
the inmost spirit of the teachers life,
not by accident or careless caprice, but
in real accordance with the antecedent
a growth and quality of his character, SC
+. it is the most decisive energy moulding
= the interior life of the scholar. The
whole divine economy, as respects oul
constitution, renders it impossible t.
detach the power of mans speech from
the style of his personal manhood. A
handsome but heartless speaker nevel
nv yet stole the secret Of sincere convic
tiou. He may gain an unlimited
-. admiration, but he is abridged OF per
~, manent strength If there is mora
ingredient in the business of education
70 at all then, as with all other institution
nd that affect society the question is para
,re mont, What is the quality, temper, lit
-, of the speaking man When an aspiran
=, for public office, of vicious substance
-. or no substance at all, is defeated i,
~. his ravenous and lying ambition, how
~, ever correct his mere political opinions
no there is divine justice in his disappoin'
ment. Aud we are well persuaded,
IS we are good citizens, that when chilean
o0t and falsehood gain a temporary promo
ton, the Nemesis that can afford to wal
is not outwitted. The worlds arden
.. and lasting enthusiasms centre in som
great personal object. We can easil
conceive of all the bare material {
90, instruction being conveyed into schoo
-, room through mechanism of pipes
80 the wall, or maps let down by pulley
!. and it's discipline administered by
,. yelled executioner, no Decentralization
- heing suffered to grow up betwee
..o teacher and taught. Into what sort {
-; bleak degradation would generatio
-, be reduced by such machinery "
:. every teacher approaches to that METAL
- and unillumined regimen who let's h
office degenerate into a routine; VII
~, plods through his daily taskwork lik
=. the tread-wheel wood-sawing horse i
the railway station shed, with no mol
freshness of spirit than the beast, All
=. no more aspiration than the circuls
!, saw he drives who succumbs to th
:, deadening repetition, and is virtu,
!, slave, yoked under bondage to the GU
49,, side custom of his work. Going throug
49,, the whole lesson of life in the homel
~ est prose, from spade to sermon, frol
>. kitchen TO church, from making loav.
to making love, from marketing to ma
80, riage, such people dwarf down the who
wondrods majesty and mystery of OF
!, being to contemplate carving-mil
:, turning out so many blocks or blocl
;. heads from so much timber. But tn
-. wrong done is never more disastro,
than when it falls on the buoyant, til
!. impossible, the affectionate and aspirin
soul of childhood. Let every beginne
!, on the threshold Of his vocation, earnestI
pray and strive to be saved from ii
doom of routine teacher !--Bisho
Huntington.
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