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Show EliUCATiONAIi IDEAS. L'olond Parker's llt to Ulnh the Thcim of an Interesting Correspondence. JTrosiMt Aettot Trunicrtpt ef Jitff Hth riArr Ijakb City, Aug. 10. Headers of tho 7ril'ilcr. remember that some years ago n Yankee school- mattir employed In the ruburbaii town, of (Julncy had the audacity to think, feel and Intlmato that tome of the old method or training children In public rchools were no goo 1, Hut Hohoot lloarJ aro proverbial for knowing It all. That one under which thu muter referred to labored raised a storm about him and he Med lor shelter to tho centre of tho uulvenu and became be-came supervisor ol the uncommon common schools of lloiton. There ho also ventured to think for himself, It Is said, and to hold opinion as to thu training of children that were not to be found In uuy proper Ilotlon family. Consequently the man found himself In another storm. Chicago In aril of him, and, n Chicago likes men who can raise tho wind, she sent for him. Hucame West and Is growing up with the village, that can drink moro tuwage and live than nuy spot or people on earth or Mars. The gentleman referred to Is Francis W. Parker, for year of the Hliurtllll" Bchool uf Boulh lloston, later of tjolncy, later of Ilolon, and now i rln-ripal rln-ripal of Cook County Normal Bchool at Chicago. Mr, Parker' views reached Utah through school literature, nud met a wiicome reception among the only "Latter-day Halnt." Lett Inter thu prialdeiit of the Urlgham Young Ai-auemyal Pruvo, Utah, opened correspondence cor-respondence with Mr. Parker with a view to securing htm for a cojrso of lecture to the .Mormon teacher of wooly Utah, lu tho luramer. Price nud tlmo were agreed upon and Mr. Parker I here at work. He wai on-gaged on-gaged for a week. At the end of thu weok he was enuged for a second week and I now telling the teacher What he knows and what ho want to see done In the way ofettabllshlng a better ) stem of I edgogy. This summer school for teacher wa open to all, although established by tho Mormon academy referred to. Those tu charge told Mr. Parker thero wculd piobably he tuo hundred pnsent; but tho gentleman luiorma me thatthe attendance ha been over rive hundred. Probably many aro not touchers, yet IbenttemlaDceof the lattor ha been, far beyond anticipation, uud many of themure nnn-Muriuou. Inconverslrrg wllh Mr. Parker, I Inund hem enthusiastic enthu-siastic over hi mountain pupils, He ssy ho uever y a more earned body of men ami n omen. They v, uro wide awake, and, having hhu there, were determined to obtain all lie had toglvo. The engagenieul for the second week rimu from tho BuM.rlnteiident of the public school In several nJJolnlAg counties. Of course tho BUeriutend' cuts of those particular counties are Mormons, but thero ruu malty uon-Mormon uon-Mormon touchers under them, and tlurulsnoMoriuonlsmtauiilit lu any ol the public echools. Mr. Pnrur finds In Utah ruoru sympathy v Hit bis vlewt of teaching than be expected, nnd much more thun he has found in tho older Ijistcrn communities. This Is not surprising. The Mormons are lu some thing reformatory people, more no lu thu past iiorlioj man now. Hut they havu alwa been full of solicitude for their children. It Is it gnat mistake to accuse them of opioltlou to education, a hat been done for year. To the Mormon a chill Is a "tabernacle," In uliuli a pre-existing child of tlod has taken up Its home for the training It can rictlvo lu tlila llfo n a reparation fur the eternal life after the resurrection. Perhaps I had tetter tell you as nearly at I am what their philosophy of birth, death and the futuru It. All oplo have pre-existed. All are tboeplrltual offspring of Hod. Life ou earth Is a prep iratlou. All nra endowed en-dowed with "agenoy." That Is, all are "tree agents, u sumu other thuolo glantsay. Our bodice aru temples or tabernacles lu which spirit live, nnd llfo U a school. Thero Is nocompiilrlon, You nuy go to school or play truant. You may havu all the benellt of preparation pre-paration alTurded by "the everlaiilug gospel," or you may go fishing, so to speak, fool your time away and reject tnogospot. Thrill yourchohuunder your "agency." The result Hill show In the resurrection. The belief It, n niarlyas 1 cm obtaiu It, that at death the pre-exldlug spirit that has teen labernai'led la the body, leaves Its house of clay und waits the resurrection. resurrec-tion. When that comes It I a physical physi-cal resurrection. The bodies will be quickened and rise from their grave lu lorm precisely a they wero hid away. Hut Instead of blood thelo will l.o spirit In tho vilns and that spirit will Insure Immortal llfu of the resurrected nnd lurllled body. Ju't as at birth thu spirit enter the nody of the In. f.int, so In the resurrection tho spirit will return lo Its body aud the union of thu body and spirit will ojnttltutu Ilm Immortal soul. You cau tee, tturofore, that the Mormons nre 'full of solicitude that their ehlldran shall be ru reared aud trained that they will choose the belter bel-ter way, that lu the rtturrrctlon they may corns forth to eternal, celestial glory, Mr. Parker consequently found very willing listeners, ills utterances wlllbucsrefully scanned for teed of heresy; but a lie ha the art of saying thing inn pleating way, thero will be Utile objection to bl theories. iAttBunday bo wa honored wllh an Invitation to Bait Lake lor the pur-poso pur-poso of delivering nn address In the great Mormon Tabernacle. He wn announced as from lloiton. It was In nam sense a repetition of the Hllot visit last autumn. Whuu tho Mormon want to make n stranger feel welcome lyid at home they glvo him nn aud'ence In the Tabernacle, Tab-ernacle, To atnn I uu tho platform thero teforoslx thousand or ctgutlhoa-silid ctgutlhoa-silid people glvea a stranger a sensation. sensa-tion. Mr. Parker had a flnu audience. There wa an audienco of threo hundred hun-dred behind him. It was the choir, and tho visitor protmbly heard on fine n body of stugers ns he over listened to. In front wero at least five thousand licople. His subject was "Tho Child," nr.il ho handled It In a very eloquent, eutcrtainliigniid Instructive manner. The skeleton ot the leoture was L I'.very child I a born savage. !!. 1-very child la n born naturallil. .1. I'.very child It n born Worker. 4. I'.very child Is a liorn singer. 6. Kvery child I a bora lover. The elaboration of those points gave usn dellihtlul hour of llftltntng. Mr Parker, as might lw exacted uf a man who had lived In lloston, Is lul of Her-beitBpeucer' Her-beitBpeucer' phlloaophyof evolution. Wheuheanuunnced Ills first proiusl- Hon, that every child Isn b uu savage,! was nniuaed toss the heads of Mormon people around him Jerk backward as they looked sharply up st him, at If framing a allent protest agnwistsuch nn utterance. Uut liosaw hi iKmitlou at n glance and deftly ex lalned nwny the seeming harshness of his words. Thercatttr there aa nothing hut pliln sailing and the .vagoguo left thoughts that ought to produce great good even amoug Mormon reformers. Mr. Parker Is ncnoronlei1 his wife, who has also enjoyed dlstinctlou In lljtton. As Mrs. i'rsno Blewart the was well known In thu lloston Bchool of Oratory hi an anlsUut of Messrs Muuroe tnd Jtaymond. As wife of a a schoolmaster or a reformilory Untol mind she has Income n reformer herself her-self and nnrlner with her husband In his publlo work. Bhewas suiiouriced to give an addret lastHunday evening In the Tabernacle on "Dress Deform. De-form. " Hut hr husband was glvin the first chance, and she couldn't put htm out. When he sal down tho excused herself and promlsid thetalkat au, other tlim. Hut It was sorprnlug what n dlsaipolnlmeut It causeu amoug the fumales. The 'Mormon women nre op,osed to nonsense In dress. Yet the fashions nre au seductive that they canuotrcsUltbetempUtloti that Is, thu younger ones and those who have a llttlu lnorcy ciluuot. Hut coiisclvnco Is alive, and Itrt-y are eager to find that dress relorm lust will en-nblo en-nblo them lo lw pretty nud pluusnt the amo time. Mr. Parker goes from here to Ohio, where he holds another Instltutu this mouth. HI work In Chlra.ro, ho tills me, Is In llnucondltlou, uud his plans are making progreis. The Uerinun have taken lilni up a an Ideal uluea-tor, uluea-tor, and his futuro Is teiurr. C'llAllI.tB I:lms. |