The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-04-03

Christ's view:
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream,
That the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real; life is earnest;
And the grave is not its goal.
Dust thou art to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
HENRY W. LoNGFELLow.
Each of the above named educators
taught that life is infinite, eternal.
Education can be considered life; life
can be proftably considered education.
Education is defined as a process Of up
building, instruction. The process Of
education is not confined to the few
years spent in school, if we accept the
words of an eminent contemporary who
said that education is of two kinds:
that acquired in school and that we
give ourselves. The latter is the more
essential, for it is gotten in the greater
school, namely, the school Of experience.
That school teaches severely; it punish
es unerringly. Who can purchase i'm
munity thereini Ignorance Of its laws
excuses no man Even the multimil-
lionaire is not immune. There is no
royal road to learning. Solomon said:
"Wisdom is with the lowly." Do they
not acquire it in the hard school Of ex-
periencei Only the lowly are promised
eternal life, which is the epitome Of
health. The loWly rely on truth,
healthy reliance. Education is con-
dueive to health, because it enables its
possessor to avoid errors in proportion
to the amount Of common sense possess
ed. Let it be understood that mere
book learning is only a department Of
education. When we use the term ed
ucation we mean the. complete instrue-
ton that the most fortunate person
gathers, as q harvest, in the perilous
cycle, that reaches from the cradle to
the grave. Lack Of education, then,
means lack of what is sometimes called
common sense, mother wit and "horse
sense" Those who use common sense
viii have better health than those who
fail to do so, for instance: observe the
two types Of persons. Those who use
common sense eat enough; those who
lack common sense eat too much. Those
who use common sense, ventilate their
apartments, especially the sleeping
rooms; the persons void Of common
sense are afraid Of what they call the
"night air" and become the easy vic
tins Of tuberculosis, commonly called
consumption. Common sense enables Us
to be clean and therefore healthy in
body and in the higher spheres; lack
Of common sense means laziness, filth,
disease, decay, dissolution, rottenness
and death. Common sense teaches the
value Of the bath; filth reminds rs Of
that fear of water expressed in the der
ivation Of the word hydrOphobia.
Health is suggested by cleanliness;
cleanliness is the result Of common
sense which is real education. Health,
intelligence, cleanliness, happiness,
truth, education and real life are op-
timistie; We labor all our natural ex-
istenee to acquire them. Health re-
quires continual effort and so does ed
ueation. The industrious person is
more likely to obtain both than is the
slothful. overwork is q sin Of commits
sion; laziness is q sin Of commission;
nature Furnishes those who are guilty Of
either sins of commission or sins Of
commission. Health seems to be in orr
own hands, whatever might be said to
the contrary. There are two popular
beliefs in this matter. The friends Of
predestinstiOn say: "There is q Di-
vinity that shapes our ends rough heW
them as we may" The other side says:
tfEaeh person Is the architect Of his
own future" Reason suggests that
there should be q reward for the serv-
ice and that reward is what we may
briefly eall health of body, mind and
spirit Our battle for health is q bat
tie for education, education Of the
hesrt, as wen as Of the head We must
learn the frsternal love idea and prae-
tiee universal love. An the world mnst
be our country and every person must
be our brother or sister. We must
teach those who lack the common sense
that We may be fortunate enough 70
possess. = Is : ksttIs against disease
and ignorancs and We Al have our
share Of both. Use careful msthods
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