| Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners for more than forty years one of my chief concerns has been as a teacher of course I 1 was getting intense and profitable experience along 1 other lines but somehow e everything very thing C seemed to converge on my efforts in the classroom class room my pupils were mostly children and young people but I 1 had many mixed classes and some classes of adults only eleven years with the seminary has amplified the responsibility of the teacher I 1 have been forced to consider the teachers who wielded the greatest influence on me and I 1 discern that it was not by any means their learning nor their superior methods in pedagogy that counted it was what they were as men and women william H allen alien tall and lanky in size and build like abraham lincoln j brought with him his unintentional echoes of the farm and the hard work in which he had built up his splendid manhood that manhood was more potent than all his training as a teacher we considered and weighed him before we designed to listen to what he had t to 0 say it was only because we ifould found the sturdy element of truth in his personality that we took him seriously and put forth effort at his bidding miss wilhelmina Willi elmina wright fresh from new deiv zealand came along as one of my teachers when I 1 was faltering on fools hill and it was not because of her charming english accent nor for her novel norvel foreign methods that I 1 pricked up my ears and listened it was because she had character purpose and the virtues of soul that I 1 was impelled to admire among my most beneficial teachers was also vilate elliot and guy C wilson they knew their business and had a clear understanding of what they were trying to teach but it was what they were that appealed to and inspired me I 1 had some teachers who in spite of their learning and their superior methods did me no good whatever that is the great challenge to the one who would teach that is the thought that terrifies me when I 1 stand before a class I 1 may have collected and arranged my materials with the greatest of care but what I 1 am that is the result of my wisdom or folly in the choice of my life for years past and is not to ta be changed much on the spur of the moment for any class or any occasion what we really are and what we have made of ourselves to be by the kind of life we have lived that is the vital question that is what will determine whether it shall be eternal reward or eter 1 nal punishment ALBERT H |
