Show instructive L LECTURE E CT URE prof amm stewart stew art lectured on moral training last saturday evening prof wm win 31 Ste stewart Nvart of the utah university delivered one of the most instructive lectures on the subject of 1131 moral oral training that the people of our town ever been favored with last saturday evening za it was a pity that tile night and ill muddy roads were so 0 unfavorable that hat but a small louse house r received ec i ye d the benefits of the lecture Js his equally as important to parents as ag they were beneficial to children after the formal opening exercises co supt bupt D 0 willey introduced the professor who expressed himself greatly pleased to meet with the people of bountiful ill and to speak to them on 01 tile the subject of education to tile the of which his whole life had bad been devoted F por or the want of space we shall be obliged to give only a brief synopsis of this valuable lecture however all of it should be in print that parents and young people might 0 read and think about it said that lie believed in the har bar manious iodious development of the ual not merely an intellectual development but intellectual moral and all combined did not consider a person educated who had simply developed his big intellectual abilities and neglected to cultivate the moral part of his is nature lie ile was a friend to children said lie he knew this community spoke of tile the family being 1 the center of hope that all good radiated from f roin the family said the village depended upon the family as lid did the state slate und and the nation tile the family is the all ask asked c 1 W what it a t home was without the child without tile father or without tile mother training the members of the family is the all in subject that is to rear three boys and girls so they will be good believed that children were not naturally bad and that it was duo due to the evil influences fluen ces that surrounded them that 1 made them bail bad men and women if these influences tic aie good he be I 1 believed 0 children would grow up to be good how to make mak c children good is the all important subject and this aliis can be told much easier than done ficai ked liow low many roan mothers licarte bad ached on oil account of their children growing 11 V up to be bad biad men and women all and liow how many mothers present would not give their all to have their children grow up ill to be villious vir virt lious ious and good had recently remarked ked to one of our citizens citizen that we live in ili the bosl favored spot on oil cantli these lofty mountains mount ains this ful lake the crystal st streams resins eliat flow from the mountains all have a n wonderful influence on character no community hall hail so main 1111 essentials necessary for to make t good goob men and women wo mellas as this coil in moral parents healthy people strong moral a mixed people that is people froin different countries said that morality nas ins highly valued by this people and ili that it where morality was nas highly 0 valued ly by a n people that character wits also Ili highly C llly the professor stated that there then sicre two doctrines one taught 0 ly by that of love the die bolh oilier er the doctrine of haac consi consisting of niala cc revenge joi lea lousy lougy cruelty and ernne out of love spring C industry I 1 cheerfulness benevolence ote said that when we wanted to strengthen a limb of our body or it a Illus ele that we exercised exercise dl it and so it was iNith ft illi morality we must dust cultivate the t good borne examples of boys in ill a tidily ily v where I 1 I 1 cr love ive had bi not nol been said jail billat illat abill on oil liia ilis way to lo allu aiu egrid fair lie saw two broll ferson rin tile train who v b 0 jealously and ami hatred toward the greatest enel end other another tu other ti oe ii ho he tile tra cratl in witia three saw a judy idy oil 0 boys boy 3 one of ilioiu lie and threatened to fur for his hi con colt duct towards the others to which the boy replied that if she did he be would tell his big father who was in the smoking car the professor said that this showed to him that the home training was not good that the mother and father were not united that when one reprimanded the cd ildren children tile alie other sympathized with willi them which had an evil influence ile he spoke of the evil effects of rewarding dirIg children for good acts and for doing their duty thought it very bad policy for sunday schools and other schools to offer rewards as incentives cen tives to good works designated giving rewards for good acts as a curse to our civilization thought 0 that children should be taught taut lit to do right without being 0 paid for it th alie main thing he said was for parents find and teachers to get the love and confidence oi of chilL children iren and then they could teach them said his mother had bill eleven claven children and perhaps made some mi mistakes slakes in training them but she had to work bard prepared food clothing for her ber children yes even picked and spun the wool but through C this she gained the affection of her children and he would do anything for his mother related an imaginary 0 example where one of the children in ili a family broke a flowerpot flower pot while the mother was out and when she ae returned being angry would ask who broke it and perli aps whip one of the children that wits was innocent being one that ta was not a favorite and having 0 been pointed to by one of the other children as the guilty one this cultivates hate another imaginary example W was is given where er a little girl had met accident and when she related to her mother what had occurred was moved almost to tears the mother explained that it was an accident and that hereafter ter she must be more inore careful and not to fe feel el bad about it this is the llie proper way to cultivate love in ili speaking of our tea teachers chera said that he had biad found foiled them to be noble minded persons and desirous of building up tip the characters of their pupils the ril gh kind of a teacher said he be does more good than lawyers doctors or men iven of any profession it is not cot like it is with carpenter work if a board is sawed too loo short it is thrown away and a second is cut the material is cheap but blit not so with pupils if a teacher makes a mistake it is a serious thing good teachers cannot be paid too loo well the speaker conc concluded lulled by saving that we must qualify ourselves to stear the ship of state stale or strangers a would come collie to do it |