Show educational DUCATI ONNAL department TO PARENTS AIND AND GUARDIANS kind and indulgent parents these few plain and simple remarks and queries are addressed to you on behalf of bf your sour children and tile the much neglected cause of education hoping thy will find a place in your bea hem i ts t 9 leading you to thought and refi reflection action I 1 need not expatiate upon the invaluable val vai dable gifts god has be bestowed tow d upon hs us in codr children those precious souls each more in value than a world of whose high des mortal can form but hut a faint raint conception and whose future glo gio glory no pen cart can depict the poorest t man who wiio pos possesses esses them is richer indeed than the millionaire who Is is destitute of or them all parents I 1 presume presume will concede this point the rb question naturally arises does not t lie the most valuable property we possess require the greatest care and attention do we s suppose up 8 c thatis that if wp merely feed clothe zo shelter e 1 teran and d provide forthe for the bodily wants of our tender offspring our w whole hole hoie duty to them to god and to our neighbor has lias been fulfilled are two we training them up in the way they sho should uld go aid and walking i in n that way ourselves do iv we bring inghem bringham br them up in the fear and ad admonition admonis 0 O 0 of f the lord do wa realize that their young minds are like a sheet obelean of clean white 1 paper and that the movements m e and appearances of surrounding beings and objects are like indelible ink making lasting impressions pres ther then thereon edn wherever children go whatever th tuey they ey see feel hear smell taste or experience day by day tey tay tey are being educated imbres s sims bivs are added to impressions and tile tiie mind becomes like a written copy byu bap here is a beautiful and neatly written sentence the work of a fender tender devoted parent or of anc ane an earnest arnest farnest teacher there alas is an all unsightly blot a photograph taken on where where too many children unfortunately are allowed to run ofa of a being created in the form and awl beading bearing hearl oearl ng the image of his bis maker now staggering iri lri through the street in a lower state of degradation than the vilest beast uttering oaths and ana curses mingled with the name of that being who gave him existence and the breath and voice olce which now blaspheme the deity the child for the finst first time timo sees seel the unnatural and lils liis disgusting gusting sight the tho impression is made and in course of time repeated again and again if the child has been tia thain au i ed to reverence the name of deity delty and has only been accustomed to hear sweet and affectionate words at home and in ln school hes hos he shrinks brinka in horror from the scene and a counter impression imprecision is made jone jona of disgust abhorrence and loathing let the parents be addicted to any vice or fault whatever the impression Impressio 4 is not counteracted and tile the child naturally grows up probably to be similar to its parents what an awful contemplation ilow HOW careful we should he be of our words and acts in the hearin hearing 0 and sight of our children i kopd words can can ne never nevor ver vor die cherished and ard blest J god know 4 how deep they lie lle beg stored in tho the ti unkind IJA kind words strife jargon unkindness dishonesty selfishness coldness and all air the vices which blot the human mind and stamp the human countenance tiro are also 11 stored in the breast let us for illustration draw a contrast between two children and their parents the parents of the one reverence the deity attend to family prayers use hind kind kind words and a wise restraining influence upon their child taking care to send him to school and taking a lively interest and having deep concern in the pr progress ogress lie he makes maites there the ac school h 0 01 is opened by prayer the divine ble bie blessing sing Is asked upon the days labors laborg the kind preceptor has occasion to refer to some little misdeed perpetrated in or out of school he draws a picture anaa anan and a contrast alid and infuses into the young mind moral sentiments and reverence for tho the divine being and his attributes utes day by day in the len ien lenth length th of the deyear year a restraining influence is brought to bear upon the childs tender ender mind knablin enabling him to resist temptation to avoid avold had bad company and to fco eschew evil to love virtue to increase his little store of useful knowledge 0 and to cultivate self rel rei reliance lance we vvo will suppose that the parents of the other are so immersed in worldly concerns that they think they have not even time for family prayer er domany so many temporal duties ga must musi jt bo be attended to that every member odthe of the family must spend ills his whole fatime in performing them J from the little girl wo wio can nurse to the bl big 0 brother av who ilio works work in tilo thi field held the boy who should be going to school is sent to herd the tile cow or two or three sheep after having leen been scolded in the rudest manner perhaps with an in oath for having on the day previous allowed the animals a til in his charge to take care of themselves while lie he went to bathe with omo more berd herd boys buys lie he narrowly escaping from drowning and tile the animals bi breaking cakIng into a corn nield field causing brig a bill of damages for more than would pay liaf ilaf a years tuition feeland 1110 0 regular borders bill forthe for the season the parents say that their boy must do with what edue education pation he can obtain in ter ea vainly imagining that all he could learn in school was reading writing ac and forgetting that a healthful restraint is exercised daily upon the tile passions and inclinations of or tile the ch child lid iid who attends regularly unbridled license taken by the boys who herd anthe on the range or streets with vo power but the providence t a merciful and forbearing god to 0 o control tb them em and protect them irom from the number ess dangers into which they heedlessly rusti the boy who has has hag been well trained at home and been kept constantly at school and who has been obedient and rows to be a poll poli polite tib tig polished refined well informed young gentleman having a taste for that which is good noble and exalting a blessing to ills his parents the other who has had a street or range education has bas learned per ier perhaps to swear tell lies smoke smore and chew tobacco indulge in in intemperance and other vices despising wisdom his animal propensities predominating ro dominating bis his his bis intellectual faculties undeveloped parents let us be anxious to know where our children are for they are receiving an education of some kind whether they are in ion lon on the tile street corners on the rank range idl idi in n places of amused amusement ent or whit whithersoever rsm ever even the young are wont went to assemble and are having impressions stamped upon the mind tile the human mind is truly truls said sald to be like a garden elther either full of good plants with but few weeds or with more weeds than should be or with the good plants entirely choked letus lotus remember that youth is the time to cultivate the good plants to pull up the weeds eeds and to stir the soil toll until the good plants shall have so cover edthe ground that new weeds cannot grow thun then we shall shail cavedo ha have havo vedo vodo done dono our dut duty yand and shall be prepared to meet the righteous judge to give an account of the greatest talents belonging to owr our stewardship viz auit I 1 J I 1 it it SCHOOL AND FIRESIDE IL there tare is lff no need reed to bally all ali to the unavoidable pacific fl llod railroad ds as the th UT great regeno lito aito r and modifier of the habits requirements men ts s and in many instances views of the citizens of utah for the very spirit t 0 of r their faith organization history and destiny necessitated an inward development which without such an outward impetus might have grown slower perhaps but t would have none the less sooner or later completion of its ultimate designs among the means it would have reached its end in such a ease case case ease is education one of the foremost a fact realized and und never denied or lost sight of by the leading men of ou our people but when we admit in common with all civilized nations and the goner gener general al spirit of the age education to be such an important factor in the development of any people we must denine define right at the beginning the true deanin meaning and extent of the term edl edu edue cation in the tile generally approved application of the term is the j judicious and harmonious development of nil all the physic physical alf aly moral and intellectual faculties of the child j for the purpose of not only enabling it to make inake its career among fel fol lowmon but alo to lay a foundation for its happiness and contentment during life this is correct as far as it goes oes but according 0 to our views it boes does not cover the ground for a complete education mip mic t take mans whole destiny into consideration and as man is not 14 transitory being perishing after ills his time and season like the grass of the field hut but is according to the firm belief of our people of divine origin and pr preparing him self here for an ete eternal a existence education among us must take this final destiny of man as the focus of all its ear efforts orts towards which all its various departments converge radius fadius like man alan is not like ilke an animal one single factor only in the great family of beings but sustains tai tat ns a great variety of relationships each nf which claim ills his attention have their responsibilities and certain characteristics and to be efficient in one of them does not exonerate onerato him film in the tile least from the performance of odthe the duties in any other or eau can servo e him for an apology for the neglect 0 of any of them man must capacitate himself physically si morally and intellectually forhia for fon hi domestic relations lie he will be expected to not only enjoy the privileges privileged but also perform the duties of a citizen of ills his country in its io broader and of hh hig particular community in its moie special sense he will have to support him hlin self and ills his by some vocation or business which requires alres skill haiir and e experience lle lie lias 9 t to 0 acquire and t to 0 sustain the character and reputation of a man of integrity 3 and honor what lie he cannot do 1 without considerable training of liis ills 0 mental faculties the foundation for all these points will have to be laid by hn his education how often do we now nony hear a father say pay that it is time ills his son had some education when the young C man is perhaps already at an ago age when it ift is difficult to uproot bad habits and wrong wrong impressions in pres an and ol 01 more difficult still to mould his mind so that it may digest teachings which should have been presented to his hia mind earlier every farmer knows that some kind of seeds will prosper only when put into the ground in early spring 1 I for everything has its season that such parents have no real conception of what education osgul to be is clear enough when we have had occasion to refer to ahe fhe misconduct or ign ignorance oranee of some wayward young men how often have we met with the excuse that that boys childhood fell in a time when our people were hard up and not in a situation to pay much attention to education hence he grew up tip wild liken like ilke a great many others did beside hl him lim in this has never satisfied us for it may be true to some gome extent as far as school or book learning is concerned but that is only one half of the cauca education the other haarand hal half rand fand and the more important i one is home education the t L education of the fireside the training of the heart the manners the tile principles of integrity honor banor industry piety and independence the foundation for all these must be laid at home homo in the heart of the child as hs it will rarely find them anywhere else and as we cannot think of any ft family mily at any time dunder an any circumstances or any place where these principles could not be taught by precept and by example if the elders only possessed them themselves we claim that the fireside must do its share in the education of the child or else all ail teaching and training in the school chool will be an incomplete and in many respects insufficient sufficient iii ill work hence the liea lead ding jo g of the present series serles of articles school and fireside K G M TO BE re CONTINUED |