Show I T CORRECT r a t lt toll d 1 abstract or n a sermon lermon 1 at 11 tho fen First Congregational I It pit In Ii I Sunday evening by h l I Is taken tram from the tItan lf Pr lr v xi 31 1 th Ib nt r troth of this proverb inti may he be kd 11 a It another way R A nation t lot ie great find and exalted without a Without ethl ethnical al and mar mor morao i II icing ao 0 I taught the has hal n a natural with h our and our schools The Thc annual vacation for tor the summer Bummer Is past and the vast lIst trio ot of children is again back In the school Mani It a mothers heart with the tho yearnings ot of loves solicitude deeper and stronger child measure these lit littie littiG than any nn can tie tiG men and all as they the go coin the or of the tho home to the public school And Ami no sensitive mind that takes n a broad view Jew of at thing cun but 1 be 1 b by the tho bc of a neW q t l II r a has pt or our schools Our nation no mare mor business on stand hand than the education or of her young people an or of the hope and pride ot of our land And then 1 WI we hate teachers presiding aver th these e and they constitute II a most Inn tn our our national III IIII As As a 0 cN claIM ot the teachers In our schools are a no the noblest and most rut citizens of the And nobody ly can hI he too truth the importance or of having the tho hu l lIe ues of the national eons COli under the 1111 Power ot of the highest tI I Ill and earned along the 1111 lines or of orIlle thin Ille nest enlightened methods rhe fhe sacredness ness of at the Ihl teachers I In la lan n that cannot he be too hl highly hl till Ind III the selection ot of insets to 10 net lIlt on our school boards too much care cannot Ill be 1111 but we must that too Upon ollen the Ihl only I cm n a moan mall hM has for tor n a position ItIn on the tho school hi seine dull lit hI hn Inns liot go or some personal allots And AnI then teachers are same times sleeted Oil on tine the same thought fit of their HiI us a 0 matter ot of fact If WO we have 1110 nay any poor Or m era its In our nUr diy city it Is clearly the fault ot of this the school board Iou Ill for IlIr Wit wu have our of cone pt It the boat east and west Int And t insist that the character tau Il lire are the tho most nt In an any school Tine pupils y the lie teacher molt than any text book bouk The fhe whether half bad or 01 good is III n book that thai Is ever Iel before with moult no 1111 end 1 ot of P II h In It t Nothing III fen the world is hi more than the nature lit of the subtle poet whIch one person has hall Over another the Iho or of and rota one olle mind to which we cull call er ery Aerators lies power Iud and alTe affects t deeply and otten tho rho charlt tor tOl and life und and destiny nit lit others Thus the character ot of the teacher in III the pub Ile chool I is Irol to lift up and In with lofty or to e and Two 10 of at the most Illustrious or of s of at Isle age are Arnold ot of and Mark of college These two model educators lint the Iho formations ot of character ens the Ihl first t lion III his an 1111 and lOW we se mu Hn say that Uw the mORt thing pit III con 1011 connection with two noted tors w as the ot of whIch tile hey Inn to those ii is clime came In III contact with them They that the teacher hind something to lu do dothan than Ihan to hear hrar to teach lan lain ulIes and and lit Ile or 01 she Is to l present to the pupils an 1111 example In their own oln I erson 11 or of Into of oC dust acter II beautified ninth nHI malla lovely hy by aid 1111 and IlL he h is to 10 Inspire them with 1 a for tor nod true trill Aright right man n right bleat of ten ring or of life and nil all le Ial or of morn mort value to n a person On than limn h of o f till nil the books tn in tIlt the toil Bot lelan library or tEn thousands of at gold el 1 and sliver Character is the Ihl most hn thing in III any ranI course ot of slut study Hut tor tOl the ot of as 1111 tend moral character sentiments most t be taught the p It Is IR well r known that our cur In fen till the or of the public school schoolY Y system ot at title Ihly find planned that thai they the he t se nurseries of at n a noble citizenship lIte ant and our schools have 0 been this Tine h have hIo been dis distinctly Oneil Christian In No 0 other notion nation on the globe line lias from Us Its been n based up UJ upon on and ed into Inlo the Ihl Hod or of ages Pilgrim and Quaker and Hainan and nod anti Caviller nil 1111 these thoo faiths have not so RO much sought gold as Cod GOI The first ot of the colonial were implicitly Christian On 00 aver unto Inlo sovereign states stales they thoy adopted hristian constitutions anew anI The Declaration or of contains II a distinct of oe the tho truth ot of ChrIs and for Cor years the faith has hns stood OM as on an cud essential vII pie anoint ment lit of time the In lass ut or the iho In mint We lire are area II a Ana AnI the Bible Cads revealed h to mankind has t been heen tine lion or of nil all our noble nobl lint 1 ve have Gallen Callen upon evil times lines arid the line inns haR been pro proscribed scribed fron out OUI schools The rill book bool that combine the sweetest and purest diction of at the l J language the tho poetry the grandest imagery the inmost logiC nil all tH la ruled out In flue proscribed nook fine Christian people or of our land have haro been altogether too free nod oas easy 11 in 1 a noisy to succeed lu III discarding the Bade from our public schools for there Is b no doubt but bUI that thata a 11 large majority ot of our are ara In favor ot of the Bible tible being retained 1 and Its Anarchy wIthout government means also alFo without led OOt anti It Is n sig fact that all ot of tine the and red Socialists are Infidel or athe atheIstic lathe In their Th The training or of a 11 mass mals of at sort fOri ot of belief or 01 un inn belief bodes danger to tn our tree Ions aid we 1 have feud 1 a vivid Illustration tion ot of this danger In the assassination ut of our beloved ll nt whose mom or cry we e today honor hOllor through our land tinder the strong poster of at n II monarchy these dangerous classes 1 cau au he curbed hut but not MO easily under n form torm or of government It is 18 necessary al tor Cor the tho preservation lIa lion tion ot of our government that I In the school hool or of ona children there hl be brought ht about the conviction ot of to Gad all as the basis of at moral character The fear or of the Lord Is the b beginning or of wisdon ind AnI this teaching pl In our schools IS an ele or of safety antel to our nation Any n toward teaching 1 n n religion In our public Is Tong but hul the principles ot of morality tine the 1111 between cn and 1111 wrong and accountability to tint Supreme of at tine religion that to n 1111 men allks p lint hesi 1 1 slate ns as as 8 tl to th time In every een Christian be tau taught ht time the children faithfully As AI Wl wit todDY today IllY for our nine public schools we 0 especially the th force for ot of teachers they may have sueh 1 a RI as 11 help to make makl our rever nt and and righteous that our MUon may b be ex ailed and righteous |