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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1877)
MO OUU EXCIIANOK9. the transition was quiet and peuoolul, as lie passed inlo llio spirit world. Lilt' bears us on like llio How of 'a mighty river. Our boats glide happily down llio muriuiiring brook, winding lie I ween its grassy border.", and Hie groves of trees and banks of flowers on cither side are but the fancies and joys of youth. Eagerly we grasp at the Heeling beauties around us, as the stream huirics on, till at manhood launched upon (lie more ex pansive Hood, our lives are wrapped in the industries, hopes and fears of the worlds that encircle its shores. Here some struggle but a short time, and then pass beyond the confines of the known. This lilli muse nnsweivil, " Wherefore yrlnvc Tim brethren with fruitless tear J Ahlilo u llttlu longer lioro, Ami thou ehnlt tuko noliler leave." That (ort wlilcli ever lives nnil loves, One (tod, tine luw, one element, Ami one I'nr-olV illviiiu event. To which thu whole creation niuic.".-Tfiitiijuoii. J. 1). P. OUU EXCHANGES. Look out for the Archiinyel. Its wings are extended, and it's a lerrible Hopper. The Jiemtm is dry. We mean the paper, not the matter. The Jtvrfl iii(iiir''s why wo have "eon. Untied" articles in the Studhnt. It says, ' CJonlinued articles are either to excite curiosity and consequently cause a repiti. lion of the sending of sample numbers, or because the writer has so much to say that it would weary his readers to peruse it all at once. Which' is it with you, friend Hksi'KuiaxV" Allow us to say, friend iliurol, that there are as many diller cnl tastes among (lie leaders of our college papers as there are among the editors, and perhaps if you should enter into the spirit of a !ood slory, you would change mil' ladies. Let mo call jour attention to the story commenced in this number of the Htuiknt. If you can comprehend it, I assure you that) on will become inter ested ; provided you have no consoicn. tious scruples against dealing wilh the element so vividly set forlh in this story. Try it and see, editor of llio Jnrel. Wo assure you that it will not be so long asto be tedious to the average reader. It's not. uviwy one who can write such prodno. tious, and it you and I can take the lime to peruse them, perhaps wo nuiy become inspired. Lot us try. Tlie Xutionul li(heri Monthly is a magazine of no ordinary character. It contains information which would be worth far more to any teacher than the cost of the periodical. It is intended for teachers, and especially adapted lo their wants. It has genius at its head, and is u model of clear oxptossion and richness of thought. 'I lie Monthly seems lo have a great sympathy for the teacher, compar ing litem to a reappearance of the Nlima eljtes. It says: "They are a wandering lr"ibo, without permanent local habitation, their salaries cut down to the lowest notch, and yet, in spite of wind and w ealh. or, poor school houses, and poor faro, Ihoy still live and pro&por, and ate doing a grand work, fjor which generations yet unborn will rise up and call them bless, ed." This may bo true in the main, yet we have serious doubts whether or not the leachers of our common schools are verv prospoiou.s. Many a teacher has bid good-by to his calling, simply because ho could not 'stand the pleasure." His scanty income has driven him to the necessity of changing his profession for something more lointiuorntivo. Ministers lii-o about the only class of people dial can subsist almost entirely on faith, and we doubt not but they would sometimes bo in butler hearl, and much more useful, if their minds were freul from this anx ious euro of the pocket-book by an in orou&ed salary. Let us hope that iho time will come when school teachers, miiiintu'a of the gospel, ami even editors, alnll receive enough attruin ct aryentunt lo sat isfy the cruings of nature.
