The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-09-16

the parent to determine the trend OF
such training can never, by any pro-
cess OF reasoning, be entirely taken
from him.
The public schools are of incalcula-
pie advantage in securing to all the
advantages OF an education which the
mass OF the parents would be either
too much employed or too little pre-
pared themselves to give.
We may speak of the taxes being
nigh and the cost of public education,
but, using the words of your own
splendid commissioner of education,
so long as we pay Sc for tobacco ana
liquor for every 81 the schools cost we
need not fear that the cost of educa-
ton is impoveriShing us. If we are
short of funds we must look beyond
the school bill for the cause" And let
me say, when we consider the relative
pay OF the teachers, specialists in
their work generally, in comparison
with many other lines of toll, the
stress and strain of work that is
never finished, by the faithful teacher,
till sleep closes the eyelids, and more
than these, the far reaching effects of
the work they do, no one can com
plain at the cost. 1t is a great thing
TO produce poem equal to Thanotop-
sis or Gray's Elegy; to produce the
marvellous painting of Raphael, THE
Transfiguration"; to carve the statue
of Moses by Michaelangelo, but great
er still is to mould life. even as a
man or woman is greater than marble
statues, sublime poems and exquisite
paintings. Were all the world har-
vest field, and every stock of gold and
every grain diamond it would be
worthless compared with one of these
little ones, for the redemption of
whom God touched the limit OF his
power and love in giving His own Son.
The eyes of the teacher sweeps down
the years of these lives, and if she is
true to her calling she sees vice and
ignorance give way before the TRUTH
and the higher ideals in control. But
still another, Dr.. Bagley, declared this
week that these ideals are produced
by three forces: art, literature and re-
ligion, and that the schools are pre-
vented the use of the last. How then
shall we couple with her work that
help which shall produce such ideals
as shall insure the legislation, iuris-
prudence, commerce, art, literature
and life OF the race, exalted, because
OF the view caught from Galilee and
Calvary?
Our age ought to produce the grand
est men and women, for others have
toiled to make it SO. The Egyptian
wrought his mathematics and built
his pyramids; the Greek developed
his philosophy and polished his Ian
guage; the Roman built his roads,
spread his civilization; promulgated
his laws and encouraged his commerce
for us. Besides this nineteen centuries
OF Christian civilization has grown up
for us, out of which shines a galaxy
OF great and Cody names But we
shall fail, as we are falling more or
less, if we yield to the clamor of
skeptics, or to the cry of others
against the Word of God, and elimin-
ate from the course Of study, provided
somewhere, the ethics of GSd's Word.
This clamor is so incessant from the
skeptical world, and from the enemies
of the precious Bible that one would
almost suppose that they had origin
ated popular education, instead of they
who love the Law of God.
The public schools are responsible
for the segregation of the youth.
Many parents tremble when they kiss
the little one, as for the first time,
he starts for school, innocent of
thought of wrong, for they know that
here for the first he may hear the
oath or the vile story from some con-
taminated youth. The schools recog-
nize the necessity of providing against
dyphtheria and all contagious dis
eases; but the antidote for moral i'm
purity is discarded while the schools
are even more bound to provide for
the moral care
The Bible is the best book of NOR
ais, so regarded by the conscience of
the world. The Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount are no.
where equaled; the third chapter of
James is the best on the use of the
tongue; love finds it's greatest lesson
in 1st Corinthians, 18th chapter: love
and care of the birds comes from the
words of Jesus, "Your Father feedeth
them" Industry and temperance is
taught best in proverbs 6 honesty in
proverbs IL; chastity in proverbs 2;
humaneness in proverbs -, and OBJ
preston is denounced in proverbs o.
How can we teach these cardinal vir-
tues without it?
The Bible is prominently book of
life, not of religion. Moses says, "It is
your life" Paul and Jesus talk most
81 Life" The saddest inquiry of the
Book is, why will We die?' The Bible
has two great thoughts: to show us
how men have lived and the conse-
quences, and to show us how we are
to live We are face to face with
great problems today. Can a politi-
clan read Nehemiah, the Mayor of
Jerusalem" and be untrue? Ours is a
Christian nation, not heather, Jewish
nor infidel. What shall we be if we
neglect the charter of liberty?
The Bible is book OF stimulus The
words Divide and substract" are
hardly found. while the words add
and multiply" are found often In
Joshua LIS we read, "This Book of
the law shall not depart out of thy
mouth but thou shalt mediate there-
In day and night that thou mayest OBJ