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Thursday, June 27th, 1929
Let us gather up the sunbeams,
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff.
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to -day,
Witha patient hand removing
All the briars from the way.
Chorus.
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
For our reeping by and by.
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet voiced bird has flown
Strange that we should slight the vio-
lets
Till the lovely flowers are gone!
Strange that summer skies and sun
shine
Never seem onehalf so fair,
As when winter's snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air.
One could easily imagine that this
little sacred song had been written
by a fond mother accustomed • to.
brooding over little troubles. The
maternal instinct is so strong in the
,fast two verses that it "comes almost
as a shoek to learn that their author
Mrs. Albert Smith, was childless.
Almost as startling is Ira D. Sank-
ey's statement that " this was the fav-
orite hymn of Francis Murphy, the
great temperance lecturer, and was
the keynote of all his meetings.
I have seen him move an audience to
tears by his pathetic rendering of this:
hymn. • It is believed that thousands,
of drinking men have been saved by
its instrumentality."
Perhaps there
is an object lesson here about illustra-
ting the <value of positive rather than
negative teaching. The religion of
"don't" never can be as efficacious as
the religion of `do the contrary thing.'
Mary Louise Riley, 'was born in
1842 at Brighton, New York State,
U. S. A. She received her education
at the Collegiate Institute of Brock-
port in the same state, and early in
life showed some signs of poetical
genius. • She produced nothing for
publication in book form for 'several
years though some of her verses ap-
peared in newspapers and other pub
lications.
In 1869 she married the Reverend
Albert Smith, of Springfield, Illinois
State, afterwards removing with him
to New York, where many years were
spent, before settling at Rochester,
N. Y,
In 1882 a collection of her poems.
appeared in book form under the 'fan-
ciful title "A. Gift of Gentians," which
attracted a good deal of attention
from the intellectual class of readers,
and is a ' rare book today, seldom
found in seeond hand' stores or out-
side of the homes in which it had
found a welcome.
Good friends encouraged her in her
writing, but though she is believed to
have written much, she allowed very
little of it to come into .publicity. In
1888 appeared "The Inn of ,Rest and
Later Poems," in which her earnest
piety and bright .godliness were well
displayed,as well asdiscrimin-
ating
o
fine r
.
taste, which ' insisted upon the
workmanship of every line being t p
to the mark she had set for herself.
Mrs. Smith's tender feeling for lit-
tle children, displays itself in much
that she wrote. For instance in her
once well-known poem "In Prison"
she writes:
"Once they were little children,
And perhaps their unstained feet
Were led, by a gentle mother
Toward the golden street;
Therfore if in life's forest,
They since have lost their way,
For the sake of her who loved them,
God pity them! still I say."
Again, ., in the touching little poem
"Sometime," her maternal feeling
breaks out as follows:
"And e'en as prudent parents dis-
allow
Too. much of sweet to craving baby-
hood,
So God,perhaps, is keeping from us
now
Life's sweetest things, because it
seeneth good,"
So far as is k)>iown to the present
writer, "Let us gather up the sun-
beams," ; is the only one of Mrs.
Smith's poems to win acceptance as
a hymn, and it owes its, popularity
very largely to its inclusion by Mr,
Sankey in Ins evangelistic singing of
the gospel and afterwards in the
Moody and Sankey "Sacred Songs and'
solo's", after • Francis Murphy had
brought it into publicity during his
temperance campaign in Chicago ica o and
elsewhere.
Ferguson's Educational
Plans Outlined at Dun-
gannon
un-gal non Meeting On Fri.
The gathering on Friday afternoon
in the Parish Hall, Dungannon, of the
trustees and ratepayers of the town-
ships of Ashfield, Colborne and West
Wawanosh, though not large in num-
bers, proved to be .of much educa-
tional value . to those present. and
much interesting and intelligent dis-
cussion gave the audience a clearer
insight into matters which should be
of interest to all. J. B. Young, of
Dungannon, occupied the chair, The
principal Speakers were W. M. Mor -
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ris, of Toronto, and Rev. H. W. Snell
of Stratford, secretary and president
respectively of the trustees' aticl rate-
payers' department of the Ontario
Educational. Each outlined his ideas
with regard to the Premier's propos-
als for the betterment of educational
facilities for the rural child, Elmer
C. Beacom, I.P.S. for West Huron,
also spoke on the subject of grants
to public schools.
Mr. Morris, in opening his address,
referred, to the keen interest being
taken in the training of the youth of
our land to face the problems of life
as being one of the greatest things
for the nation. In all countries, the
educational systems are being im-
proved,
andtltef'rslst
e in prop cd, t p
action is; taken by educating public
opinions as no reforms can go in ad-
vance
d-vbnce of public opinion. One of the
purposes of the Ontario Educational
Association is to mould public opin-
ion, and by means of discussion and
drawing up resolutions, which are
presented to the minister of education
a means is established of prestning
the mind and desire of the people to
the government.
Two Flans in Mind.
The speaker next dealt with the
minister's proposal to take up two
year's university work in some 'of the
collegiate institutes and that two
years of high school work be provid-
ed in all the public schools. An al-
ternative to this proposal was the es-
tablishment of junior high school,
perhaps one to a township into which
the entrance work and two years of.
high school work would be introduc-
ed, and where a course of training,
more adapted to meet the needs of
the rural pupils and modern life would
be given.
Mr. Morris outlined these various:
plans, not so much as an advocate
of there, but so as to acquaint the
audience with the proposals and by
means of discussing them, find the
feeling of the people with regard to
them. Following his address came
some interested and intelligent discus-
sion, which served to show that the
majority of those present favored the
idea` of rural schools in preference to
the proposal of introducing two years
of high school work into every rural
school, which might have a tendency
to detract the attention and time of
teachers from the junior grades.
.Mr. Snell Is Speaker
Rev. H. W. Snell, of Stratford, fol-
lowed the subject of a larger unit of
administration for rural schools. He
was pleased to hear the disoussion
upon the subjects introdued by •Mr.
Morris as by this means will come
the solution of 'rural problems. He
referred to the many opportunities
enjoyed by the urban child which
the rural child hoes not have. In
urban schools there is definite pro-
vision made for the health of the
children through sehool: nurses. Ev-
en the pre-school child is looked of
ter so as to have defects remedied
before commencing school. He spoke
of the dental clinics, eye clinics, mus-
ical training, both for vocal and in-
strumental work, which they have in
cities and towns, which cannot be.
worked out by rural school- boards,
Urban School Advantages
He spoke of education as the know-
ing of one's job and of learning to do
with success, what we have to do. He
referred to the many advantagesthe
country has over the' city, for bring-
ing up children and if to these could
be added the educational facilities en-
joyed by the urban children, rural
life would be well nigh perfect. It is
because of centralization and group-
ing that city schools can be made
what they are and he was a strong,
advocate of a larger unit of admini
stration for rural schools also. He
believed that there should be voca-
tional training available for every
child for in this way the child finds
what he is best adapted for and has
the pleasure of developing his natural
instincts.
Mr. Snell concluded his address
with a plea for the rural child and
urged that we be sure we are doing
the best we can. He thought it a
healthy sign that trustees and rate=
payers are meeting to discuss educa-
tional matters and was very optimis-
tic for the future of the rural school
and its possibilities,
Mr. Beacom in his opening remarks
expressed his appreciation of the trus-
tees and ratepayers' associations and
was interested to hear the discussion
along lines of improvement, in which
he heartily concurred: He then gave
an explanation of the basis upon
whichgrants to public schools were
given and stated that itt the meat• fut-
ure a change would . be Made which
would be in favor of the more sparse-
ly settled districts. The department
of education exercises almost paternal
care in the distribution of grants. Ifc
was inttch interested in the teaching
of music in schools and otttliued the
liberal provision made for the teach-
ing of mtitic, where four schools com-
binefor this instruction. He would
be pleased to render assistance along
this line to, any boards who might
be interested. He also emphasized
the need for better libraries in the
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schools and outlined the grants for
this purpose,
The chairman called upon the reeve
and deputy reeve of Ashfield, Messrs.
A. McKenzie and Thomas Ander-
son, Mr, Mole, reeve of West Wawa -
nosh; J. M. Reed, vice-president of
the Ashfield. Township Associationof
trustees and ratepayers, and some ot-
hers to speak, after which the meet-
ing closed 'with the singing of the
national anthem,
DR. GORDON WEBB
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Gold Medalist Surgeon
London, (Eng.)
M, R. C. S. (Eng.); L. R. C. P. (Load:)
Surgical Operations a Speciality.
Maternity and Children a Specialty.
OFFICE, -Old Davis House, one
house from Anglican. Church, Centre
Street. Phone -15, Wingham.
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