The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-18

after lives. Whenever an infaLt
gazes at surrounding objects with
wide open eyes it is the first step in
the discovery of unseen planets, the
invention of engines, the production
of great paintings, or the compost.
ton of wonderful symphonies and
operas.
Home, its perfect trust and truth,
its simple holiness, its exquisite hap
pinesS, is to the world what con-
science is to the human mind :"
Home has we'll been called "the
grandest of all institutions "the
nursery of the infinite Home is a
church within a church, republic
within Il republic, Il worlG within a
world.
But, before proceeding with the
study of "Home Education, it Is
needful for us to examine the or
ganized character of the human con-
stitution. Man is very complex
being. He is completely organized
being. Primarily he consists of
boiy and a mind and Il spirit. Giles
has expressed this threefold charac-
ter of man well by saying: "When-
ever contemplate man in the actual
world or in the Ideal, | am lost
amidst the infinite multiformlty of
his life, but always end in wonder at
the essential unity of his nature"
Therefore, to be well educated, a
man must have his body educated,
his mind educated, and his spirit
educated. The ideal education,
which consists in this education of
mind, body and spirit, as well as In
all material, aesthetical, and intel.
lectual advancement must be begun
at home. The training received at
home-not during any certain num-
Der of years, but all through child
hood and youth, is written indelibly /,
ia the life and character Of every |
man and woman. We believe in the
theory of evolution to certain ex-
tent. Livery human soul repre-
sents the development of thousands
and thousands of years back of u.s."
Even the very simplest creatures
cannot be known except by years of
study. The science of education is
founded upon this theory of "a con-
tlnuous period of growth. In this
sense the human mind is growth.
We know that God gives individ-
uality to lis that We might forward
the kind of evolution that means
power and virtue. The home was
left as mighty power to develop
this individuality, and to draw our
hearts upward to brighter home
the heaven.
Progress is the fundamental law
of civilization. The mission of the
home is to make the utmost of the
noblest of Gods created works-the
human race. 1t devolves upon the
parents, to whom the child is en-
trusted by the Creator, to train a
soul which will live throughout all
eternity. Plato said that the State
should train the children-and ad.
ded that the wisest man should rule
the State; but in this serious prob
lem the universal and infinite love of
the mothers heart is more important
than mere wisdom. The mother
soul should be, OH, so full of infinite
power and sweetness and glory.
Children must sooner or later
learn that there are great laws
laws everywhere-in the Bible, in
our souls, and even written with a
pen of iron upon our bodies. Let a
child's punishment be natural--na-
ture punishments, as it were. Nature
never forgets to punish her rebellious
children and an earthly parent must
inculcate within the hearts and minds
of his children this sense of just and
due retribution. While we do not