San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-07

development Of character in that
"home school," Term never closes
That teacher Is never discharged
The school once opened its instruc-
tions go on forever.
Is it not strange that this school
is opened so carelessly, not
thought given to the beginning OF
that which can have no end? That
men and women dare in all the un-
consciousness OF ignorance to take
out license to open such school,
and that the state grants 1t with
out any examination into the fit
ness Or qualifications or experience
OF the applicants, is one Of the
enigmas Of this present, and in a
wiser age it will be considered the
greatest blunder and stupidity OF
the educational ages. Mothers Of
the LIGHT Congregation, your
school has no recess. 1t keeps its
terms till death closes them, and its
influences live as long as mind en-
dures.
How about that antipode to the
"home school," the "street school,"
does it ever close classes and take a
recess? Does the universal devil
W no conducts this school, who spells
his name without the letter d, does
he ever dismiss his pupils and take
recess? Not that the LIGHT preach
er knows Of. That Internal school
O the street has been in unbroken
session ever since streets were. 1t
had graduated its millions before
Grecian civilization had its birth
or Roman citizenship was in its
cradle. 1t fourished in Sodom and
in Nineveh, and all who pursued it's
curriculum were given their de-
gree Of d. D.-Disciples Of DAM
nation. This is the training school
in which are taught falsehood,
theft, brutality, righteousness, cruel
ty, lust, rapine, murder and all that
debauches and debases man and
unsexes woman. Is it not high
time that in the wisdom Of the
government this school was closed
against the entrance of the youth
Of both sexes? That it be made a
crime on the part Of parents and
guardians to turn their little ones
out Of the home school into the
street school, a school whose in
structions are Observation-Disclosures
this unwisdom on the part of the
state and the city the LIGHT
preacher raises his warning voice
this Sabbath morning.
Is it any different with that "bus-
mess school" whose life lines were
drawn for the great congregation Of
the LIGHT few week since? In no
whit. The instructions go on the
same, all the same. There is no re-
spite from its cares, no cessation
from its duty, no recess possible.
The merchant is bound to his
counting room, and day and night
his accounts run and his inter-
est increases and his obliga-
tions mature. 1t Is so with the
baker and the banker, the mechan-
ic and the manufacturer. Once the
man or the woman crosses the
threshold of active life there is no
cessation in its movement. Its
silent and indurating influence is
at work eternally. Even in the
outer temple of business it is not
possible to take a recess. What
merchant, or baker, or manufacture
er, or banker, or tradesman closes
shop for months as the state pub
lie schools do and takes recess?
What kind of a business would he
find waiting the taking down Of
his shutters at the end OF three
months recess in which he paid no
attention to the wants Of his GUS
toners? To ask the question is to
answer it. Then there is no recess
in the school of business life. This
is it's pain and pleasure, its profit
aud its penalty.
In the "social school" 1t is in
nothing changed. The doors Of So
ciety swing wide on their hinges
all the time. The instructions that
men and women are eternally re-