Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-15

in Victoria they took the Bible from the
hands of the school child only to thrust it
into the hands of the criminal when he en-
tered the jail. The Bible was being driven
out of the public schools in America, and
the Church should redouble its effort to
reach the young in other ways
Rev. DIR. William Gibson, of Paris,
thought there was much to be learned from
the kindergarten system, for he. believed
that through such a system the question of
how ) to control the children would be
settled.
SYMPATHY FOR REV. MIR. STURGEON.
A resolution was introduced and referred
to the Business Committee, expressing SYM
pathy with Rev. c. H. Spurgeon.
Rev. John Smith, of the Primitive Meth
odist Church of England, read the first es-
say in the afternoon, on elementary Edu-
cation-How 1t May Be Best Promoted
He said that the United States was the only
country in the world that spent more money
in education than in war or warlike prep
arations; that had given in aid of the cause
more territory than was comprised in Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland together. Edu-
cation did not consist in conforming the
child to mould, but in the unfolding and
training of whatever powers and facilities
lie in germ in the heart and mind 1t was
strange that education should have been
made the football of political parties and
rival churches, yet the fierce battle was still
being waged in England. Elementary pub
lie schools should be freed from all religious
domination, and as they were sustained by
the people they should be kept in the peo-
ple's hands. [Applause.l
Rev. j. D. Hammond, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, Covington, KY,
spoke upon "The Ethics of Elementary
Education" He said that men learned more
in the first three years of childhood than
during the whole college term. Facts were
accepted without question, and logic should
be withheld.
UNDoING A BAD EDUCATION.
During infancy the child is taught abso-
lutte seIfshness. The remaining education
should undo this Any system of education
defective. Only per cent of the children
received more than elementary instruction,
and the only method by which continued
moral development could be secured in the
other 81 per cent was by the inculcation of
proper principles in these early stages.
Hon. j. c. Dancy of the African Metho
dist Episcopal Zion Church, Wilmington,
n. c., addressed himself to Secondary
Education. Scholarship, he said, was not
the heritage of any race. 1t lay in the in
dividual Scholarly education was the
ruling force of the world to-day. Method
ism in America was indebted to education
for its marvellous growth. Secondary edu-
cation included character-making. AS the
result of that education in the case of his
own race, the auction block had been turned
into the school house.
Rev. A. NJ. Green, of the African Metho-
dist EDisconaI Church of New Orleans
spoke Of the difficulties of giving religious
instruction to youth when the examples
around were at variance with those teach
ings. He hoped the Bible would be taught
freely in all public schools on both sides Of
the ocean.
II. H. Shaw, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Portland, Me-, hoped to see elm
mated the false idea that boys were to be
forced through school and college to crowd
into overcrowded professions without re-
gard to special aptitude