THE

MICHIGAN

JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

AND

TEACHERS' MAGAZINE.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE

MICHIGAN STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

Edited and Published by Rev. JOHN M. GREGORY A. M.

VOLUME III.

DETROIT:

PRINTED BY HENRY BARNS, TRIBUNE OFFICE, 1856.

HARVARD COLLEGE

DEC 5 1924

LIBRARY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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1856

AND TEACHERS' MAGAZINE.

VOL III.

JANUARY.

NO. L

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME III.

The World's work is not yet done. Humanity yet lingers along the slopes of that eminence on whose unvisited summit she shall yet furl the banners of her march and repose forever in those homes of beauty and endless blessedness as yet unseen save in the prophet's vision and the poet's dream. No enterprize of human benevolence has yet reached a point of rest. None can pause without going backward by virtue of that earthward gravitation whose strong grasp holds all material and mortal being. With the new year come renewed needs, and Hand and Brain must still again bend themselves to their long wonted work.

Amidst these millions of workers who with hand-work or thought-work, are seeking to fill the measure of duty and to meet the demands of Earth's vast wants, we again resume our post, and if with a soberer hope than heretoforeby reason of our better knowledge of the difficulties in our way; yet with no diminished feeling of the importance of our task, and with no weakened determination to succeed.

A great and vital public interest called our Journal into existence: the advocacy of that interest still demands its issue. Politics need not fear to be forgotten while offices of honor and emolument remain to be sought and filled; Religion will still find worshippers while conscience holds sway and death urges men to secure the hope of immortality; and business with its voice of steam and its iron arm will never fail of its share of attention; but the duty of the present generation to educate its successors on the great stage of life is a duty so remote and unselfish as to need that it shall be urged upon mankind with the importunity of a continued iteration.

Bound by so high and stern a purpose we can scarcely hope to carry with us the light superficial reader who asks only to be amused, and whose mental appetite relishes only the lightest and weakest literary pastry; but to the true thinkers, the men whose deep souls have learned that—‍

"Life is real-life is earnest,"

we commend our work with a confidence encouraged by every experience of their past regard.

To the true workers and thinkers of our kind we appeal. With their approval we shall rest content, nor covet higher honor than to be permitted to work side by side with them to leave the world wiser and better than we found it, and to promote the glorious up-burst of that PATERNAL LOVE, which, recognizing the real grandeur of its mission as to the education of our race, shall make the world itself at once the HOME AND SCHOOL of a redeemed humanity, which to the hope of the christian shali add the culture of the sage.