The record-union., 1891-09-26

fourth of the educational time of life to
vacations is to prepare for work. Vaca-
tions do not exist for themselves. They
are designed to recreate the mental and
physical forces, which have become de-
pleted throughllabor in order to promote
the doing of further labor. We venture
to believe that to achieve this purpose a
vacation of eight weeks is practically as
useful as q vacation of thirteen. If the
student or teacher have the advantage of
thorough change of habits, two months
OF rest should add to the working
forces of the healthy person a suf-
ficient power to cause him to do his APP
pointed task in fitting ways. If the
general conditions as to place and sur
roundlngs of the vacation are the same as
prevail in the school year, two months
are an ample time for rest. The boys and
girls OF the cities who remain al home
SIII curing the vacation become Bohemians.
lhelr atmosphere and condition are one
of general lawlessness. They illustrate
the. truth of the remark that the devil
hnds work for idle hands. They wonder
about, without regular pleasures or APP
pointed duties, unhappy themselves, and
the source of unhappiness to others. OF
course boys and girls who permanently
i've IN the country have vacations too
long. For In altogether too many parts
OF the country the appropriations for
schools are so small that the school wear
is shorter than the vacation. College stu
dents, too, are seldom able to use three
months OF vacation to their intellectual
or physical profit. The last month of tho
three Is one OF laziness and rest rather
than of increasing vigor."
The Boston CongregotionoliSt says: SIT
has been suggested by more than one
secular newspaper that the relatively
larger growth of tho Roman Catholics
Methodists, and Baptists has been due to
their unquestioning appeal to what they
clalm to be divine authority, residing in
the one case in the Church and in the
other in the Book; and we believe that
thefe is at least a partial truth in this
view Men like to have their thinking
done for them. The challenge to indi-
vldual responsibility in searching out the
truth is not attractive. The crowds like
a dogmatic teacher who never qualities
his statements. But we suspect that with
the Methodists and Baptists the earnest
evangelism which has carried light into
every hamlet East and West is a better
explanation. 1t is our Lords own word
That he who seeks shall find. Metho-
dlsm has sought earnestly for universal
dlftuslon, and its prayer has been heard
and answered. 1t has cared little for
truth in the abstract and much for the
souls OF individuals, and it has its re-
ward.n
The Csttrchma7e says: ''Woman's de-
velopment Is an interesting problem AS
the seed develops into the plant or the
tree, as the nebulae take form and sub
stance in starry worlds so woman is de-
yeloplng powers and possibilities hitherto
latent and unsuspected. She whose
sphere was formerly limited to the home
and the tireside is now found occupying
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attaining eminence in practical and pro-
1esslonal life as author, artist, physician,
lawyer and professor. This point of de-
yelopment has not been reached without
labor. Hindrances and difficulties have
been overcome and jeafousies lived
down, but the gain in cour-
has been great, and there are not
wanting those who predict that woman's
influence is only as yet in its beginnings
and likely to have far wider sphere in
the next fifty years than that already at
tanned. The church has left woman
to such development as she could
old-time activities of the Sunday
school and Dorcas Society to
more effective work as best she could
Naturally, left thus without authoritative
guidance and help, she sought these
IN sisterhoods. and in these has
done rare and excellent work. But, by
the passage Of the canon on deaconesses.
the church, as represented in the
General Convention, has given to woman
scope tor the development of her highest
powers and attachments. Carefully in
structed and trained, officially set apart
and commissioned, she now enters upon
a new era OF influence and usefulness
The New York Jea0isb MESSENGER saws:
THE condition of a large body of our
brethren in the lower section of the city
cannot be unknown to the Jewish COM
munity. Again and again has the
subject been referred to, often in
an unfattering way, and probably
the very frequency of its mention
has tended not to arouse, but
to blunt attention. The present
Russian exodus, however, with its con-
sequent local congestion, the oYercrowd-
ing both of fneighborhoods and of certain
occupations, the dangers to life and NOR
ais the spread of prejudice both
from within and without, render
necessary a vigorous movement for par
tial relief, if total alleviation of the evil
be impossible. Phe future of New York
Judaism, its reputation. its character, de-
pends largely upon the diffusion and re-
lief Of ouf destitute immigration classes
and the proper housing of our wage
workers. 1t is not the costly house of
worship. the palatial residence the snowy
mercantile establishment, which main
tain the reputation of a community; but
rather its wise provision for its poor, the
opportunity it affords for their elevation
and amelioration, SO that they, too, can
become in time its honored patrons and
supporters"
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