The Newtown bee., 1907-06-28

the track; education is horse of high mettle, splendid for draught when managed with bit and rein. We'll did the ancients represent Neptune, the sea- god, riding in his car over the tumultu- f ous wave and poising aloft his wave stilling trident. We'll did they think of Phoebus Apollo, the sun-god, as holding the rein over the flying steeds that paced the hours across the flaming sky. You can get many things, but do not get them just because you can get them 1t is road of liberty that you travel. Truth doth make you free, you are not slaves; and yet though broad the road and wide the way, in travelling the road to success many gates must close beside you; many inviting lanes must be looked at with blind eyes, and many
 tempting Siren voices must not be
 heard. God holds us responsible for
 nature plus nurture. for self plus possi-
 bilities. "I slept and dreamed that
 life was beauty. woke and found that
 life was duty" It is duty; and duty is not rough growth covered with nettles that bricks us to unwilling tasks; but it is a figure clothed in homespun that warns us from the road, that leads nowhither. You have been given in the routine of the schoolroom fine fortune. It can provide you many things personal comforts, anu sement, social delights, but leave not out of your account the value Of discipline. | Marshall Field became the merchant
 prince of Chicago because he had
 learned when boy uncomplainingly to
 do chores and to clerk in a small store
 in the village of Pittsfield. Shall give you the secret of education's power?
 It is this Make yourself able to do
 what you ought to do when you ought
 to do it. and never give it up.
 You are a composite, compound of
 body, mind and soul. Do you know
 what sort of interest you will get along | any line? It is compound interest; and
 it piles up in either way not alway to your advantage. Look back to your garden after you have been away on a
 vacation. What compound interest of weeds! These parts of your compound
 self must work together. Minister to
 the body alone. you become an animal I; cultivate the mind alone, you develop into an intellectual freak ;..think only of
 the needs ot the soul, you are lifted in
 the air and wings touch not ca rth s common things. It is yours, my dear boys and girls, so to adjust this nice
 mechanism that it's parts shall play in
 to each other to form the well educated
 man or womna, a power for the right not easy to measure. Your education gives you rights to get so many things. 1t enlarges you and broadens you a hundredfold. 1t changes you from pig , my to giant strength; but there is one right you never can forfeit. This is the right always to be counted and to be counted on the right side. Do not allow yourself to be an unfired gun. Do
 not relinquish your right to do some : thing that will make you remembered ] beyond the gravestone's chronological = tale.
 Daniels windows were open towart 0 Jerusalem. He looked across the Flu n pirates and across the desert sands to e see what he could do for God in tn, 0 land where his fathers had worshipped ' That gave him good outlook. His ey e was clouded by the gross materialisn s of Babylon around him, and he cleare j. his vision by looking away. This is g grand world in which prophet Daniel f can find broad outlook for life's arc h ma and grand work to do. Do no e look too long at the earth around you l. feet. There may come q time whe e you may need to cut loose from all tha IT you have been and look away Bird e learn to fly by getting out of the crowd Il ed nest. Learn to be an electic Il Choose the best things. Don't get ey u erything you can, but get what will ad 2. to your moral avoirdupois. A goo al education makes you a leader. You ar ,e to set standards henceforth for your fe to lowmen. You are to do your best wor to by thinking not as the crowd think er1 and adopting principles that will wes ,n out time. If you wish one day to enro