Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-14

-
and In general morals in the dispositions an I
nabHs or the rising generation that Is beyond
Along with the home ana The school, the
church tres TO exercise the best care. Il, can
over a rising generation; and that Il does
much good is not ~. be, questioned. But the
broadly as the public school FIR more chiI
dren 20 to Sunday school than to public wor-
the absence from 9orsSip thar has grown Ho out
esil. should rather : child SHOULD attend
70 school ana not to puhic worship Who are
tne attendants upon the average church of
so-day! Are they not those who formed the
Years: the church for l.fe.-Let- us hope that
we of this church may, be able soon TO find
ssf, enough Tor our children a. well as our
selves IN our public service. q s-ss 49, .f
:, Inc rising generation should be taught tho
uignity and value of labor ani should te
taught TO work. OF the ~, .sS arrests in this
city is ,t22-moie than one-ha f-had no occur
patton. idleness Is n sin ngaipst society Not
TO know how to do something and TODD IL well
Is great misfortune to any Young man or
woman. To have no occupation Is to be at
the mercy of everybody and everything, and
We have not yet understood ali the mean.
ing of Gods thought of labor of .seatiug
prsaa Sy 'Ri sweat 9f the brow There s
there Is more religion in IL.
You can have Mother morality nor piety with
y, ~. eness: labor is the measure of value and
with labor and property go the great virtues
OF honesty and Justice. 1t Is not theft TO take
ciod from tho fold a pebble from the
beach. They cost no labor. You can not
steal air ur sun light And whcnpeople work
for bread or property they know. its value,
rights, and hence they are slow to violate the
rights of Others Through industry and econ
morality concerted, and the need OF law. and
justice, and truth, and honor among. men Is
thus seen. And all this is in so far. a religious
nnI rtafarN
part of actual life the church will rot be some
thing TO join, or religion to take up as sep
arate affair but religion and the church win
be part OF life and people viii be in the
CHURCH rs they arc in the Government or in
There are thousands OF children without
homes; some are orphans, some 'outcasts.
others % unknown parentaee, and others still
inc cniid iy, OF poverty; wso shall care for
dren of the state. and The State should care
for them. IT Is proper for benevolent indi i'd
the STATE or society in its organic form should
SIC that these children do not grow up IN ig-
norance. ana idlencss, and crime. Tie new
vides that every child shalt have not less than
three months schooling each year between
the age of eight and fourteen. But Is that al
Illinois can dor Michigan has publir state
school that takes her children from tue
county roorhouses, and educates them
anu places INC ST. them in homes; they are the
years old. The Superintendent says In his re-
port that eghty or ninety per cent of them
vii probably make good citizens. With the
power hereditary against them, and all their
associations unfavorable, that niRety per
cent. would probably have all been paupers or
thieves. - tl tln4
1t is cheaper for society to make men aud
women ont of her unfortunate children than
to provide prisons and police for protection
against them. Every Oh Id thus saved he
! comes builder. producer. and not de-
! stroyer. And in this way the rapid reproduc-
ton OF this class would be Jesse ued and finally
might cease. In paper before the Philo.
s ., ca Society OF oSr city statistics were
ants of one unfortunate woman alone had
furnished ono hundred and fifty paupers or
criminals. et
At the c,ose of the rebellion the State of
PENNSYLVANIA engaged to take care of the
twelve thousand orphan, children needing as
sistancc, and of these twelve thousand CHI
dren admitted to tic Soldiers Orphan School
II IS estimated that not over two per cent. will
fat to make useful citizens. IL Illinois, If
every State, If this whole country, would for
the next twenty years, IL necessary. cease ev-
cry public improyeInentand turn the time aud
wealth given 10 other things TO caring for the
rising generation. il would be tie best twenty
years of the Nations life. But we need
not stop any great industry TO do this work;
rather should we need all and moro than We
rave in dong IL: and at the end of that time
the land would he full of happy and skilled
laborcrs.
The laws of nature. OF culture, of hered-
itary, of God have waited long and ar, wait.
ing still for wise and willing hearts and hands
to begin the work of saving the world from
ignorance and sin; and by every argument
for great Nationll interests, and by the ap-
pcais OF helpless childhood, and the suffering
poor, and the thousands in prisons should the
philanthropy of our aye lie won to work SO
divine Oh, IL each family could save only
one other chi d; il each businessman, IL each
lady of means could guide the steps of but
one little life. how would the future rejoice
and the saved one rise up to bless their bon
elactors in the great day!