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Show still persisted in and regarded by some as a truism, that preachers sons as a rlue go wrong. The fact that investigation has shown just the contrary, that preachers' sons as a rule give a better account of themselves than many other sons, still has not exploded the traditional tradi-tional idea, an idea that was gained simply by the observance of a few isolated cases that stood out prominently because they were isolated. Then there is the familiar contention that a good record in school has no relation to a good record in later life. There is, of course, no guarantee that success in school means success in the vorld. But in general it has been shown by investigation of school and college records that the chances favor the youth who stands liigh in scholarship. ! Young Hickman did not go wrong because of his Sunday ichool or public school records. He went wrong in spite of both. Kansas City Times. FEW FACTS HASTY CONCLUSIONS. Young Hickman was a model Sunday Scchool Boy. He committed com-mitted a brutal crime. Therefore all model Sunday School boys should be watched. How often has such a line of reasoning been followed in the last few days. How often one may observe the same type of reasoning rea-soning in innumerable other connections. There is the old fallacy. |
