The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-11-12

to all schools without charge and has
already placed them in nearly 8,OO0
schools, but the demand is now over
whelming and beyond the leagues re-
sources to supply.
To assist this free distribution the
league has appealed to the newspapers,
which have generously offered to issue
these character lessons serially once a
week for thirty weeks.
To Teachers and Parents.
1t is suggested that one week be de-
voted to each trait, that 1t be written
upon the blackboard together with ap-
propriate quotations for memorizing.
that 1t be made the subject for com
position, the illustrations being taken
from the examples, and that talks be
made daily from the material supplied
These lessons may be used in many
other ways, according to the individual
genius Of the teacher. AS q method
Of training, urge the pupils to bring
to the schoolroom for discussion sto-
ries and reports of acts and deeds,
which may be collected into book Of
golden deeds. Small prizes for the
greatest number will arouse discrim-
mating interest, through which the
children unconsciously will learn to
love the good, while at the same time
It is being crystallized in their own
character.
This system of character training Is
receiving the enthusiastic Endorsement
Of all employing 1t. The result is a
revolution In habits and behavior, an
increased conscientiousness, an up
rlghtness In public sentiment, all of
which must inevitably result in devel-
oping a higher type of character.
I.-Obedience.
Obedience is to do what those in au.
thority over us tell US to do.
The child should be taught obedl.
ence from the cradle. Regularity IN
feeding and sleeping is a great help,
for it implants the habit of yielding
to rules. 1t is of the utmost impor-
tance that the child be made to real
ize that there exists a higher will than
its own.
Not only must children obey, but
everybody must obey. The pupil
obeys the teacher, but the teacher also
obeys rules which the child knows
nothing of.
Grownup people are obliged to
obey more strictly than children, for
there are duties, obligations and re-
sponsibilities In life which cannot be
disobeyed without loss of position,
property and even life.
Children sometimes think that It is
manly to defy the rules of the home or
the school. On the contrary, it is
obedience that is manly and disobedi-
ence that is childish.
Obedience in human life is what law
Is in the natural world Henry Ward
Beecher said, "Laws are not masters,
but servants, and he rules them who
obeys them"
The child who would learn to read
must obey his teacher, as guide
through an unknown country must be
followed. A captain trusts implicitly
to the pilot when going into port; so
as pilots, our parents steer us through
] the difficulties and dangers of trouble
| and sickness, through the perplexlties
of business or In misunderstanding
with friends.
Obedience should not be from com
pulsion. Everything depends upon
the spirit and comparatively little on
the action itself, because II the spir
II be there the action must follow
and mere compulsory obedience with
out the right motive is like q nut
which has shell, but no kernel.
First.-Obedience to ones parents
The parents loving ministratlons dur
ing the years of infancy should be
repaid with gratitude and affection
which should command instant and
implicit obedience TO their loving com
mand.
Second.-Obedienc to superiors
which is the soldiers duty. 1t is only
by instant, unquestioning obedience
that a body of troops can be moved
as though but single man.
Third.-Obedience TO the call OF
mems needs and for assistance In
time of necessity. When war broke
out with Spain 1t was necessary tC
deliver Immediately message TO Gar