DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-31

Stiopl ptoI'c, )ut SUCH IL HoI tlc NVoc
where a proper conception exists Of the
work of both. 1t is a good thing that
we can come together to find this out.
In these meetings sc find the same level,
We learn that Our hearts beat in Unison
together; that the same spirit should in-
form all the work Of teaching; that
every teacher is TO be cstml'cd by his
worth as an individual, and not by a
scale Of higher or lower kinds of teach
ing Our deserts depend on how much
we are worth as men and women apart
from our teaching as influences in our
communities.
AN UNDERPAiD PROFESSION,
We welcome YOU to the university at
this time mindful Of the fact that your
profession, while one of the nobcs,, is
one of the undcrpaid professions and
! that all of us bv Our love of the children
have been put under obligation to you.
/ What would our towns be without our
| preachers and our teachers who engage
in the blessed ministry Of healing and
! helping the souls of their fcllowmon'
The Great Teacher did not work for
wages. He put Himself into his wor':
for the love of His fcllOwmcn In this
spirit thousands Of teachers are working
today 1t i; true that one hears dis
cussions Of a higher scale Of wages and
salaries for teachers. but the teachers
/ who are worthy Of the name carry the
missionary spirit into their calling.
Not one of YOU is receiving what you de
scrvc--pcrhaps Just because we all
expect of the teacher a spirit of self
sacrifice.
WORKERS IN CHAINS
We welcome YOU to the university
J for this convention because Of the
obstacles against which YOU are doing
Your noble work; There is a sense
III which all of our workers are in
chains Many teacher is shaving his
life out under heavy bondage. The
lack Of facilities, the failure on the part
Of the people to property value edit
cation, the sluggishness Of public spirit
the bacliwardncss of the people, the
mcagcr salaries, the short school year.
the thousand and one chains that
bind and fcttcr the worker, give to your
service an added significance. 1t has
been the history of the Kingdom of
Light that it has had to fight the powers
of darkness. The best testimony our
Lords disciples ever gave were from
their prison houScs and bound by
letters of iron, and 50 the noble tcs,i-
monv that YOU, my fellow teachers of
Florid1, are giving in this your day and
generation to the cause of truth, is all
the greater because of the untoward
conditions Under which many of us
work
TEACHERS IDEALS.
We welcome vou here to the univcr.
sity because of YOUR educational ideals;
because YOU represent hundreds of
others OF the teaching profession with
the same ideals; because in these
ideals are the life of the community.
Your service, to the State is a spiritual
service. 1t is interrupted by greed of
gain. It's antagonisms are directed
against ignorance and Superstition and
vice and crime and everything that
ministers to ignoble passions. 1T shall
be the duty of all instructors of youth.
are the words of one school board, TO
impress upon the minds Of children the
principles of piety and Justice, and a
sacred regard Of truth, the love of
common humanity and universal bene-
violence, sobriety, industry and fiugality,
chastity, moderation, temperance.
Other school boards may not direct
their teachers that way, but every
tcacherw hose calling is Of God feels
that WY ubout it,
THE TEACHER IN THE SCHOOL.
In YOUR schools, fellow teachers, YOU
are laying the foundations of character.
The bases of ethics and religion are
found in mans everyday life. He is |
religious or non-religious in respect to
all his common secular activities. |
Ones ordinary conduct towards re-
latives, the aged, the poor the stranger
stamp one as good or bad. ones
manners at home, at the table, at
school, on the street, in public halls or
convcyances are religious or non-rc-
ligious. Punctuality, promptness, reg
u'aritv honesty, Thrift, economy,
cleanliness, are all religious words.
Conduct partal;es of all of these.
These daily activities are rooted in our
conceptions of life and God. The
pubic school, especially, deals with all
of them in germ There the children
get started right or wrong. There an
attitude is given them a point of view;
is given, an unconscious favoring OF
some phase of conduct is given them,
but these later find expression in
definite forms, in the songs they sing, in
the words they use, in the principles
they unconsciously stand for. and the
teacher is the inspiring force of them all
in the beginning
Fellow Teachers, Ladies and Gentle
men, welcome you to this university
on behalf of the trustees of the uni
versty. At their last meeting they
directed me to open this university
from one end to the other, to throw our
buildings open to receive you, to open