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respect. The great idea of duty and responsibility to God should be taught, 

 enforced and illustrated side by side with the truths of science, and there will be 

 a mutual strengthening of the one by the other. 



Another of the indirect effects of right teaching is tha.t it strengthens the 

 habit of seeking the truth for its own sake. Tn every school effort the aim is to 

 find out what is true in the case under consideration. Absolute truth is sought 

 to be established in every case and who can doubt that the formation of such a 

 character is of incalculable benefit. 



The qualities which we have enumerated and others which we might have 

 enumerated, had we had time, are elements of character. They make up what is 

 worthy in a man or woman. Whatever helps to make one patient, or industrious, 

 or cheerful, or courageous — whatever strengthens the moral purpose, lifts the soul 

 above the mere temporary — makes one master, not of the fleeting now, but of 

 the on-coming duration, ennobles and dignifies humanity. And this I believe 

 right teaching helps to accomplish. ' 



In the process of his education the child ceases to be a plaything and comes 

 forth a self-directive personality. He holds himself as the loyal subject of truth 

 and duty, bound to ascertain as much truth as he can discover ; bound to obey 

 as much duty as God gives him to see, and in the end there shall appear grander 

 beauties of soul, and divine charms of character as a fruit of this faithful training. 



MUSIC AS AN EDUCATOR. 



PROFESSOR F. A. JONES. 



In the public school curriculum of this country music is not enumerated as 

 an essential subject, which is the reverse in the board-schools of England, where 

 in the various training colleges for teachers it enters as an essential subject, and 

 there every school-teacher is required to satisfy the examiners in the first princi- 

 ples of music, and each college or training-school has its music instructor. The 

 government appoints an examiner who visits the training-colleges annually for the 

 purpose of testing the students in the music department, the present examiner 

 being John Stainer, Esq., M. A., Mus. Doc. Oxon. Organist of St. Paul's Cathe- 

 dral in the place of the late Dr. John HuUah, deceased. 



If music is worth cultivating among the teachers, it is worth doing so to the 

 best of their abilities, and what teacher can feel that he or she is fulfilling the 

 mission allotted to them when they are unacquainted with the elementary prin- 

 ciples of harmonic combinations; for example, a class of children are taught to 

 sing a melody which may be defined in the widest acceptation of the word as 

 notes in succession, such as can be produced by any single voice or instrument 

 capable of producing but one note at a time, in contradistinction to harmony, 

 which means notes in combination or music written vertically; but when sharps 

 or naturals are introduced in the melody a modulation or change of key may be 



