Untitled article by Examiner; Chronicle

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 28, 1881

BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE BOTH

By Examiner; Chronicle

TEACHERS need to be more than wise instructors—they need to be bright examples of gentleness, patience, purity, dignity, and grace. Scholars who love their teachers will be changed into their image. Carelessness in dress, awkwardness of gait, a lazy, lounging style in occupying a seat, rudeness or roughness of speech, irreverence in look, or word, or act, levity in dealing with sacred things—any of these defects in the teacher will be very apt to be reproduced by the scholars, in a new edition enlarged. The silent, unconscious influence going out from the teacher—what may be called the aroma of his life—is constant and subtle, and all the more sure because it is unperceived at the time. Much more than by words are lives moulded by the steady, subtle, deathless influence of that spirit which is incarnated in the teacher, and pervades the whole being, asserting itself in looks, dress, manners, and in the tone of the life. See to it that the young natures thus under your power are not injured by any carelessness, uncouthness, or ungracefulness in your appearance, your ways, your conversation, and your actions. "Be thou an example."

-Examiner and Chronicle.