The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-14
OUR DUTY To THE PUBLIC
-F SCHOOLS. neiisS'

= SERMON BY REV. W. II. MCARER.
On last Sabbath, Rev, VIM. III
McCarer, the pastor of the Walnut
| Street Presbyterian Church. preach bed
a sermon ben Public. Schools, which
WAIST full of valuable suggestion to the
citizen. A number of our readers
have.speken, to. usrof itin the highest
terms, and have requested us to OBJ
tain a copy for publication, as the
views taken ARE. such as should be
impressed upon the community. At
our solicitation Mr. McCarer has
kindly furnished US an abstract of the
second part of the sermon, which we
publish We regret that want Of
space prevents the insertion of the
sermon entirea.goE o = TedMaqs1
ont nj aioy THE SERMON. raa .eT.- Il =
| Proverbs xxrf: - Train, ,tp:u child IN the
uay he shosid 90. io7sen he is otd he sofH not
depqrtfrors f<pSsf ~ ,,4,5-ss,-TE' If. q9aa.
This is positive expression. Per-
form a certain duty-and you have GER
| tain resultss LetchiHhood be trained
| Alright, and the man is saved.
The exhortation is given, primarily
| to parents; secondly, to all who have
to do with the education of youth.
Of secular teachers, taking them
all in all, the best are found in our
public schools. e. Undoubtedly the
best place for a child's secular train
ing. is where he meets with such as
symbolic the beings with whom he is
to mingle in ripper years, and it il a
matter of graduation that our best
public schools are now affording OPP
portunities, for aintellectual Training,
better than was offered by most Of our
colleges two generations ago. = -
1t is the duty of Christian minis
/ tiers and of church members and citi-
zens to sustain by their appeals and
influence these places of learning.
/ Two questions concern US this
morning. First, how can teachers
terform the duty Of training the chill
dren entrusted to them? and. second
ty, how should parents act in refer
epce to the teachers and, the schools2s
: III. We come now to the question.
what do we. owe to the public schools,
particularly its teachers? l mean.
not as a system, and to teachers in
general. but what do we, owe to the
schools and teachers of our own chilE
dren?
The highest interest, some people
evince towards them is to grumble at
the taxes, as though it were an odions
burden, and not profitable invest
ment of a gerry small portion of their
capital. But suppose you cheerfully |
pay your taxes; is that all you are to |
do? Some of our citizens show no
more personal interest in our schools |
than they do in any of our large stalls |
where horses are livered.r This, ought |
not to be- 1t behooves every citizen
to manifest an interest in the schools,
and those ,wh0 have in charge the
education Z of 2 your children.
Parents, and q particularly Chris
tian parents, should exhibit |
an ,unmistakable and ardent interest
in them. The work of training chill
dren, with all the CO operation that
can be secured-.is an arduous and
work, even though pleas
ant, and the least that any of us can
do, is, in "a uniformly kind and dem
Onstratlve way, to manifest an interest
lnathe schools. and in all the eendeav-
ors of their friends to bring them to I
their highest possible.working value
make them the brightest oraament
IF oar city. 9 A good moral andlintel-
lectual training, such as our schools
are now likely TO impartr Is worth to
parents andtAeir children more than
thousands of money
But to speak more particularly to-
parents. (a) First of al theg Rh1nldA
zee that the home training of their
children isssnot negeetea- Parents,
sometimes, most unreasonatly, de-
that Hacherss make Eup for all
heir defeiencies, and hold them re-
ponsible for everything, their morals
md manners and truthfulness and ,
lonssty. as well as ntellectualF iiscEd
,lifie sAhd progress in Knowledge.
The TodGofhdtl disorders at school mag
'e traced to neglect at home Domestic :
raining is essential to the highest !
raining of the child. % Parents ,
hould see. that their children are !
and pnnctually at school. 1t /;
) fraud upon the child to 5
eep him away unnecessarily q
t is more than petty larceny to =
Their pupils In the school, whose ad-..
ance is retarded by such irregulari-l :
les. 1t is, also an imposition upon :
eachers, whose work is thus en- .
anced, and whose efforts are discopuur- 9 8
ged. (c) Habitually inquire of your /
hildren as to their progress In study. .
,xa mine them yourselves, if you are e
bic. Cheer them on; aid them at Z
ONE, if they need encouragement.
.et them see what is the ftruth-if n
9n only realize it-that their proper Il
ducation is unspeakably more i'm