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Show -THE UTAH EVANGELIST.- <br><br> THE UTAH EVANGELIST. <br> PUBLISHED BY <br> THE EVANGELIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, <br> Salt Lake City, Utah. <br> The UTAH EVANGELIST is published in the interest of the Evangelical work in Utah Territory, on the 15th of every month. <br> Terms, single copy, one year……$ .50 <br> Three copies……1.00 <br> Eight or more copies, per copy……$ .25 <br> Will not the friends of Utah missions give the UTAH EVANGELIST a wide circulation? It will give the monthly information which Sabbath Schools and missionary societies need to keep up the interest in the missionary work, and it therefore solicits the earnest co-operation of pastors, Sabbath School superintendents, and officers of mission bands. <br><br> A PROSPEROUS SCHOOL. <br> Nine years ago to-day, April 12, 1875, the first Presbyterian school in this Territory was opened in the basement rooms of the Presbyterian Church. The growth of the work has been so remarkable that a brief history of its progress will not be without interest. In the year 1874 the Presbyterian Church in this city, under the pastorate of Rev. Josiah Welch, erected their building on the corner of Second South and Second East streets. At that time there were only two schools in the Territory connected with evangelical work-the St. Mark's, of the Episcopal Church, and the Rocky Mountain Seminary, of the Methodist Church-and Mr. Welch and his friends thought there was an opening for another. They therefore planned the church building with reference to having a school in the basement rooms, and in the month of December, 1874, invited Prof. J. M. Coyner, formerly of Indianapolis, Indiana, then in charge of the government's educational work among the Nez Perce Indians at Lapwai, Idaho, to open a school, pledging all their sympathy and cooperation and the use of the rooms free of rent. The enterprise was an experiment, with no present financial backing or promise of future aid. <br> But the invitation was accepted and the school organized on the 12th of April, 1875, with three teachers and thirty pupils. For two years the sessions of the school were held in the basement of the church. Then a one story school building of three rooms, with accommodations for 160 pupils, was erected and dedicated August 22, 1877, free of debt, having cost $3,750, including furnishing. The money to pay for this building was raised partly in this city and partly in the East, and was all generously given as a free-will offering to the cause of Christian education. Within three years the school had outgrown its accommodations. So that in 1880 a two story edifice was added to the school building, increasing the accommodations to 225 day pupils. A boarding department was also opened, with accommodations for the teachers and boarding pupils. The entire cost of these improvements was some $7,000. <br> The growth of the school demanded more rooms for dormitories, music rooms, library rooms, etc., therefore in 1881 the second story was added to the first building at a cost of $4,000, for building and furnishing. Thus in nine years there has been expended the sum of $15,000 for building and improvements. Additional real estate has also been bought, so that the entire cost of the school property including the present value of the real estate connected with the school property, is $21,000. Except a debt of $3,000 secured by mortgage, all of this money has been raised by voluntary contributions in small sums, and not through the generosity of any one man. <br> The school has gradually but regularly increased in numbers until from thirty pupils it has an enrollment for this year of 245 pupils. The school is regularly incorporated under the laws of the Territory with a hoard of trust of seven members, and is well graded into four departments, primary, intermediate, academic and collegiate. <br> The present faculty is composed of three gentlemen and five ladies, all teachers of education and experience in the public schools of the East. The pupils prepared for college in the East by this school have always taken a high stand in such schools as Princeton Ann Arbor, etc., and some of the most successful teachers in the mission schools of this Territory are graduates of this school. <br> Pupils entering the primary department can commence with their A B C's and go on step by step, until after a six years' elementary course, a four years' academic course, and a four years' college course, they can graduate with a compete [sic] college education. <br> There is connected with the school and under the same management, a first-class boarding department. This department is under the supervision of an experienced matron of high Christian character, and parents will here find a well organized family of teachers and pupils, furnishing a home for their sons and daughters where their education, manners, and deportment will be kindly yet firmly cared for. <br> The special blessing of Providence has been with the school from its opening. There has always been perfect harmony in its faculty and board of management. Though poor it has so managed its finances that every bill, whether to contractor or for expenses, has been met on or before the day of payment, and it has thus far closed each year out of debt for all current expenses. <br> The school for thoroughness of instruction and wholesome discipline, has won for itself a reputation that is unsurpassed in the Territory. The school has secured the confidence of the Presbyterian Church in the East to such an extent that whatever aid is necessary to carry on its work is promptly furnished it, Eastern friends knowing that all funds thus given will be used wisely and economically. <br> Last year there was opened a branch school in the western part of the city, on Fourth West street, between First and Second South streets. A lot was purchased and a school house of two rooms was built and furnished at a cost of some $3,800. Two additional teachers, with an enrollment of about 100 pupils are doing good work in this school. <br> In addition to this school work done by the Presbyterian Church in this city, some thirty- three other schools have been organized in these nine years. These schools are scattered all over the Territory, from the extreme north to the extreme south, and are doing a grand work in their effort to bring the children of this Territory in harmony with the great American Nation-Salt Lake Tribune, April 12th. <br><br> OUR EDUCATIONAL CREED. <br> We believe in that system of education that will prepare the rising generation the most thoroughly to discharge the duties of American citizenship. <br> We believe that it is the duty of the State to provide for the education of her children irrespective of sex, color, race or condition. <br> We believe that the broad fundamental truth of morality and correct living as set forth in the Bible are the foundation of all true education. <br> We believe that the profession of teaching is second to none in point of honor and influence, and, therefore, the world has a right to demand of its members the highest possible qualifications. <br> We believe that educated labor deserves as great a compensation in our profession as in any other, and that a cheap teacher is the synonim [sic] of a poor teacher. <br> We believe that the union of church and state in educational matters is detrimental to the best interests of our country. <br> We believe that women are by nature as well qualified to be teachers as men, and that when they do equal work they should have equal pay. <br> We believe that the teacher who is influenced by no higher consideration than the salary paid, is unworthy of his calling. <br> We believe that it is the duty of every teacher to attend Teachers' Institutes, read school journals, etc., and thus keep up with the times in regard to the best methods of school management. <br> We believe in that true manhood that will cause a man to have decided views of his own, and will enable him to maintain those views in all meekness though the whole world oppose him. <br><br> EDUCATION. <br> The first and most important requisite in a good education is self-government*; without this as a foundation all education must be essentially defective. This is the first and great commandment in school government and the second is like unto it, self-reliance*. Here is the entire code. This contains the essence of the whole. He who is complete master of himself-has his whole being under control, and who depends upon himself-is prepared to enter any department of life and will soon be the successful man in whatever position he may be placed. <br><br><br> * words are italicized <br><br> |
