| Show COLONEL PARKERS LECTURE ON conj THE CHILD an audience of not less than people assembled at the tabernacle nacle august ath to listen to colonel francis Francl parker of the cook county school chool of chicago lecou lecture re u upon pon the on subject b of the child he was listened to with the profoundest atte attention ution from first to last there were present on an the stand president angus mcannon counselor charles W penrose Pen roee professors maeser slid and talmage bishop W B preston bishop ellas elias morris elders B H roberts and W B dugall the ladies on the stand were mrs colonel parker zina D young loung sarah N kimball emmeline B wells M isabella some jr dr B R B pratt mrs W B dougall bougill and mrs talmage the meeting was presided over by president angus M cannoo cannon the choir sang hang light and truth the world is waking P prayer was offered by dr karl G maeser after which the choir sang saag the anthem god of israel the lord is our redeemer ly colonel who was introduced by president angus M cannon said the child was the sunshine of the world this generation owed the little one an everlasting debt of gratitude that debt could only be liquidated by properly educating these little lumps of flesh who were constantly breathing life and singing immortality they were the fruit of the past and the seed of the future philosophers of all ages had asked the question what is the chalat the query had never yet been answered aud and be would not more than partially ally attempt do so now suffice it to say too the child was a natural born savage not a regul S T barbarian tait out a savage because it loved what we the ravage kavage loved As an soon as it was old enough it wanted a bow and arrow it longed for tents and wigwams and would dig caves into the earth when a child he had bad done so himself on the banks of the picturesque with his bis toy weapons he defied the fleets of the world to lombard bombard the rude crude castle where he reigned as king one of the greatest stories for children was robinson the r narrative of the desert island and the savage life to youthful ears was always pleasant again like the savage the child loved the myth and the fairy tale how often in fancy it had bad copied eloped the invisible world with inhabitants that never existed some people say my that children should be told nothing but facts this was a mistake fey aley should be given proper food for fancy and in agitation agi nation myths were not lies but beautiful truths truth by means of myths the savage when he be looked at the stars moon and sun eun learn learned d more of god myths had ever been the shin ing pathway that led lead from this earth to heaven the child should not be b robbed of the fairy tales of youth every child loved nature every child loved flowers A good farm faim was the best primary school ever invented knowledge was power the child should not be denied the strength it can acquire from knowledge when wheat we would come to know children better we would treat them bettt bett r honesty and truth were ever beaming from their inspiring and glowing coun tenancies ten ton ances we should not crush their natural aspirations the speaker had bad a theory that there were no really bad boys there were bad men and they frequently spoiled good boys he accepted the parable of the lost loot sheep as aa being all truth ninety nine dine boys out of a hundred were all right it was the one hun dreth that should be saved this done all the world would be well the mistake was too often made in attempting to save the he child with the dry husks huske of knowledge which found no response in the soul 1 and that when the world was full of love this universe was the expression of gods god s when a child turned to nature he asked god for a know knowledge ledga of his laws that he be might obey them what was waa nature those of us who had lived the last jut fifty years little know knew what it had done for man more had bad been accomplished for humanity during that period than in ila all the centuries preceding it when whelk a child turned his eyes upon the flowers or upon the moon he was asking in g the father for knowledge that was hla his by heritage no one could study these great valleys set like emeralds in the tops of the mountains without bowing in sincerest sino erest admiration for the one who sculptured them from aror a nature there was no such thing as aa a natural born lazy child it only became in dolent as an the he parents would persist in 1 doing for it what it should do for itself every child was waa a born worker 0 one n e of the greatest sins of the day was laziness rhe fhe desire of getting some thing for nothing was spreading with alarming rapidity toe the erstwhile curse upon min by the aweas of thy brow thou ehalt earn thy breed bread was his great greatest tat ble blessing the college bred stu student clent was too own a useless ornament good for nothing but to have clothes on A practical education ws the only one of great value an d benefit the thinking and working scholars of the day almost invariably came from the farm and workshop the speaker then pidd aid a glowing tribute to the sincerity and intelligence of the teachers and students he had met at the late institute at provo lie he said aid last winter myself and 41 wife and another person were invited to come to utah and hold an josti institute tute at provo we came and I 1 am glad of it let me say right here that we met five hundred of the sharp est ast thin thinker kerp most earnest and in intelligent teachers and students that I 1 have aver ever seen in the united states and I 1 have hold held a great many institutes JIM in my day we were astonished beyond measure mea eure what is the cause of this intensity of purpose and concert of action 7 I 1 will tell you it is because the people who came to this territory had a terrible struggle for existence existe nce and surmounting all trials they tur turned tied this thin bleak waste into a veritable para disc diet and transmitted the love of industry to the present generation prom from such an experience and school will come the greatest mental giantsos giant glan son earth dont neglect manual training no people can become great without it education costs money but it will fill all the backs of eternal life with imperishable treasure rep the best beet book on earth from which thi the mother can calm teach her child is the new testament the choir sang zion prospers all in ig well P mrs parker was to have followed her bar husband bufi band on a diser dissertation tation on dread reform M but owing to the thel atene of the hour abe announced that she had decided to poet postpone pone her bar lecture for a future late and if satisfactory arrange arr aage monte menti could be made abe be would pro proba gl by deliver it within the next two weeks the choir sang bang by babylon Bab ylona s wave ware 01 0 1 and the meeting was wag brought to a close by elder B H roberts oro dro bouncing noun cing the benediction |
