The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1910-12-24
LINCOLN MANUAL TRAINING
SCHOOL WORKSHOP.
IA True Heart, a Trained Mind
and a Trained Hand.
Lest We Forget"


tors, through the instrumentality
of whose labors, tears and prayers
we are afforded the splendid op-
portunities which we enjoy to-
day.
1t is well to turn aside from the
usual program at the close of the
old year to do honor to the great
educators and reformers of the
present day.
1t is for us to mediate over the
high ideals and aspirations which
permeate the entire being of the
heroic founder of the Lincoln
Manual Training School and his
earnest co-laborers.
If in the rehearsal of their lives
and achievements, we succeed in
arousing new aspirations and
greater determinations to make
the most Of the glorious oppor-
tunities at hand, we shall have
done well.
1t has been well said, and gen
orally agreed upon, that our good
Bishop Osborne, because of his
keen insight into the future and
the great things which he has un-
dertaken and accomplished, lives
at an opportune time, and that the
efforts of his labors are culminat-
ing and shall in time not far dis
tant flourish as the green bay tree.
He with his co-workers fully
realize the situation of the col
ored boys and girls of Springfield
and exemplifying the old adage
of "Peace ON Earth, Good Will
toward Men," founded the lin
coin Manual Training School Nov.
L, 1909.
The departments of this school
consist of a tailoring, shoe making,
carpentering and laundry depart
ments, as well as domestic arts,
sewing and cooking. 1t is one of
the finest trade schools in this
state and the only one open to
Colored boys and girls.
The greatest need of the hour
is for real, true genuine manhood
and womanhood, which means a
useful life.
There are great masses of peo-
pie in the world, but alas too few
who stop to consider what life
really holds for them, but join the
onward march which leads to the
mistic river, without becoming
awakened to the fact that Life is
what we make it. :" We cast an
chor in order that worthy, sincere,
earnest and conscientious boys and
girls, men and women, who can
stand the test in an hour when
duty is called in question. 1t is
often said, q can't get anything
to do" but the question is, What
can you do?"
Industrial education is the art
which enables one to intellectually
do with the hand, heart and mind.
The discipline of this school
aims to lead its pupils to self
control and to prepare themselves
for the successful discharge of the
practical duties of everyday life
and citizenship; as well as for the
special duties of school, shop and
home.
One thought which we wish to
impress is that labor is dignified
and is necessary to all individual
or social development. Who can
conceive of race, made in the
image of God, forever remaining
"hewers of wood and drawers Of
water. p"
The idea is to train boys and
girls into an atmosphere where
labor is no longer a drudgery but
an honorable and dignified trade
which makes a man or woman
stand upon firm individuality and
the very best service that any in
stitution Of learning can give its
students is to help form high
ideals morally and spiritually.
Here, too, this school labors in
the molding and fashioning the
lives of the youths who are being
planted and watered under the ex-
cellent management of Principal
II. G.. Hamilton.
In conclusion ! would say, let
those of mature years as well as
the young, beware of being daz-
zled by the splendor of individual
achievements and of forgetting
that the door of opportunities is
open to us, if we but take advant-
age of these precious gifts.
We are to bid adieu to the pass
ing year with its many blessings
and smile to welcome the new year
with sincere greetings Believing
that in the year 1911 choice bless
ings will be added to our store
house, and when the year 1911
is slowly passing from us, we are