The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-21

tenn and is maintained at cost of hum
dreds OF thousands of dollars every |
year
Il once asked Dr. Carl q. Measer how
ne came 10 establish the Brigham
President Young had told him TO go
down into Utah county and establish
school where knowledge OF the world
and OF the gospel might be taught 10
the people who lived in that vicinity.
Before 1 left said DR.. Maeser. i asked
President Young for Instructions as to
how 10 proceed. and he told me. go.
and God go with you. But don't at
tempt To teach even the multiplication
table without the spirit of God"
The church school system as il ex-
lists among the Latter-day Saints has
two great ideals. The first of these is
| a complete education and. the second,
the application of the first ideal-the
use OF that education toward the up
! lifting and salvation of mankind.
What do 1 mean BY a complete edu-
cation?
Herbert Spencer has declared that
| TO prepare men for complete living is
the function which education has 10
/ discharge. 1 know not how far that
/ great educator can be Interpreted to-
/ ward the direction OF this point, but |
| do know that man must be schOOled in
/ the knowledge of the hereafter well
/ as OF the present and the heretofore.
! Education is intended TO prepare man
| 10 completely live.
The idea OF education is not TO put
something in a mans head which is not
| there before the process of educa ton
/ was started 1t is 10 improve what is
! already there, self-contained If a
! gardner plants and cultiVates a tree or
| a plant. watering il and daily digging
] IN the ground around its roots. how
much does he put into that plant or
| tree2 If the root is already dead, do
| his pains bring il again TO life2 No.
! they only tend to draw forth the in
/ ward pOtentialities and 10 cause the
plant or tree TO expand because of its
/ own being.
True Education.
"All the teacher can do is to place
| the student in the proper environment
and assist in the self growth of the in
/ dlYidual. Education does not pretend to
| put anything into the mind. but TO bring
/ something out that is already there
| 70 make man master of the situation,
master OF himself, master of his sur
/ roundlngs, and when you have done
/ that you have educated the man.
! 1t has long ago been demOnstrat ted
| that mere mental education is deficient
and that physical education is a nee
/ ander Stevens have accomplished had
/ his body equalled his mindg 1 have
I OFTEN cited the example of the English
/ poet Henry II. White, who DESTROYED
| his physical being with study
need not enter into an extended
argument in support Of physical educa-
ton; The world has long ago awak-
ened 10 the fact that strong man
needs strong body and that we ne
gieet either 10 our sorrow.
The world has also began TO recog-
nize that morality is necessary in our
education and that the Bible is needed
In the school room. An educated giant
without morality is like a huge loco
motive Laundering in the ditch. They
tell US the moral includes the spiritual
II offends my soul. No, the spiritual
includes the moral. A moral education
is not all sufficient"
knowledge External.
The speaker here referred to Robert
! q. lngersoll in glowing terms. paving
tribute TO his intellect and to his phy-
steal excellence, but used the great
a6nostic as The weaker being in an il
lusIratiOn 10 prove his point
with all his learning what did he
know OF God? asked the apostle
what did he know of the hereafter or
OF the heretofore? IngersOll once de-
t Ia LIE Is narrow vein between
the barren peaks of the two eternities'
How little he knew OF real life Come.
90 with me TO yOnder mountain peak
we look down into the valley and see
yes Just the one valley. But we know
there are other valleys below the
Oquirrh range or the Wasatch noun
talns 10 the east the west, the north
and the south one summit attained ONLY
proves 10 be the Mount Lookout 10
possible heights unsurmOunted
"lngersoll claimed TO be an agnOstic |
An aBuOStlc Is one who does not know. |
You would think that one who does not
know, who does not claim 10 know |
would be less positive with his mega
tive.
The knowledge of this world does
not include the knowledge of the world
eternal, but knowledge of eternity does
Include knowledge of the world in
which we live, This is one of the ideals
Tor which the church school system
stands.
Those Who Think
The time will not come when those
who think Will not govern those who
toil-when knowledge will not be all
powerful We have been preaching the
gospel Tor the past seventy years, most
~ 10 the humble and the poor, to the
middle classes and the working classes
There VIII never come time when all
kinds OF preachers are not necessary.
but there is no meaning to these edu-
eatlonal movements OF the Latter-day
Saints II they are not TO be utilized in
the preparation of men and women who
VIII present them 10 the world in the
way the world needs presented to il
the gospel of salvation"
Speaking of the necessity of not of
Tending the eye or the ear in reaching
the heart, Apostle Whitney here relat-
ed an incident in the life of Gladstone.
A poor truck farmer in the vicinity was
so impressed with his faith that he felt
he must tell il TO someone. Actuated
by this motive, he sent to Gladstone a
bundle of tracts with an ill-Worded and