The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-12
|F|NAL SERMON NJ \. ]
OF YEAR
Preached by DR.. D. H.
Bailey.
EDUCATION DISCUSSED
BY two Local Clergymen.
Epworth People Working TO Have
their Pastor Rcmain--Clurch News
of Yesterday.
BY two Local Clergymen.

/
DIR. Bailey has just completed hi
fifth year of good work in this cit,
| and I'm accordance with the conference
| system does not expect to return t
| Marion, unless something unforseer
occurs DR.. Bailey has been request
ed to fill some of the best charges
i'm the state and will probably bt
sent to one of them. Marion meth
odists, however, are working will
great energy to have him returned.
DR. Bailey first read the report fol
year 1901 which was printed II
| the columns of the Mirror q few day.
days ago. In connection with this
| he reported the standing of the Meth
odst church in the United States
1t is the largest in Ohio. in member.
ship, and stands fifteenth in tn,
United States.
"Some Peculiar Phases of Method.
ism" was the subject of the speak
ers interesting sermon, i'm which he
eXpounded the principals of Meth.
odism and the itcnerant system and
plan of assigning preachers to theiI
positions. This system was originated
by John Wesley who contended that
ministers of the gospel were evangel-
lists and should go from town to town,
that greater good could be accomplish
ed by the efforts of many men than
that of one and that new voice and
personality would attract where old
would not. The length of the first
l.N.
tended to one year, then to two, final
ly to three and then five. Now all
limits have been removed and a
church may keep its pastor as long
as he sees lit to remain.
He stated that although q preacher
surrendered all right to choose his
next charge he is always guaranteed
term. II believe" said DR.. Bailey,
that If a Methodist minister stands
for honesty and right and odes his
duty that he will be treated alright
by the Methodist church. The man
who sees work to do and accomplish
es II, will always find his friends
about him." He asserted that the
Methodists were looked upon at one
time as peculiar and fanatical
people but he was willing to be
known as one or the peculiar people
for he loved the Methodists.
Rev, Bates of the Lee street Pres
byterian church took for his text last
evening study to show thyself APP
proved" from which he spoke on the
theme Education" He said:
"As the schools have just opened.
and the people are thinking and
time to discuss the general
subject of education.
When l was away on my vacation,
/ went to the office of one of my
former schoolmates. who was called
a lawyer. II was a large store room.
At one side in front was a small
desk, and back of that a few groc-
fifteen dollars worth. Away in the
rear of the room was bench to
mend harness. In the middle part of
the room a lady had millinery
shop. l asked him about certain
piece of business in which he was
interested. He began to look for "
letter which took him about fifteen
minutes to find. The next day went
back with another man and ii took
him about llftcen minutes to look up
the same letter. l was not surprised
to hear some men say that he knew
nothing about law, and hear others
say that he did not pay his debts.
"He had some opportunities of
education when he was young, but he
lacks the one essential of the edu-
Gated man, that is the ability to take
hold of thing and finish it before
he leaves 1t.
Education Is like culture or good
cloths, II is not to be acquired merely
for its commercial advantage, but be-
cause the person who has IL will
enjoy life better, and make better
appearance as long as he lives for
the possession of 1t. In planning for
education. we should not overlook the
highest things because they are the
most important.
Our American public schools fail
in two particulars. What | consider
their greatest failure is in teaching
English. The most important task
laid on the school is to teach peo-
pie to speak and write a good, idio-
matte English, and they do not do it,
Educators tell me that the great
est failure is In the teaching OF
Arithmetic.
rhe pupils can take the examples
given In the book, follow the rule, and
get the answer But when II comes
to taking the practical problems that
come in every day life, many OF them
cannot do It, Abraham Lincoln learn
ed to cipher on the clapboard used
for a fire shovel, working before the
wood fireplace, and when he was
twenty-one years old, he was a sur
veyor. / suppose he went TO school
five or six months In his life.
believe there are graduates OF
our schools who would not know
how to survey a town lot that has
square corners. True education Is a
thorough training of the man, soul,
mind and body"