The Republican journal., 1897-03-04
The attendance is much larger than was

The attendance is much larger than was
anticipated.''
The records from 1894 90 are a success
sion OF enthusiastic successes in their
development of interest and membership
and show that in five years of it's exist
ence 1t has officially recorded an attend
ance of 4,272.
AS these young women discussed in
nome and business surroundings this
Berkeley Temple work of Miss Overs.
the desire OF Others was awakened to re-
ceive like benefits, and this resulted in
the formation of two other evening classes
Tor wage-earning women-one in the Con
gregational House, the other with the
Friendly Workers Club; so that last sea-
son Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
evenings We're given by her to this i'm
portant work besides the leading at Berke-
y Temple of large normal teachers
Bible class on the Sabbath.
| Could you have heard these young la
dies, after days of exhausting nervous
business duties, discuss the text of the
Monroe Doctrine, bimetalism, the recent
bond issue, proportional representation,
| and subjects of kindred dignity with an
earnestness and intelligence which would
do credit to any college class of political
economy, you would understand why Miss
Dyer says: MY working girls are
my great enthusiasm, since association
with them is such an inspiration.''
Representative women in Newton, Bos-
ton Highlands, Winchester and Brook
line are also enjoying her leadership in
the study of general and current history,
in morning classes, and are as appreca-
tive OF her great helpfulness AS were ever
''her girls, "-one element of which is her
genius in leading a subject to a white
heat of intensity-and then as suddenly
dropping it to urge her students to de
velop 1t by personal research.
Besides the reviews of current history
she plans this season in these morning
classes to have as a background for sub
stantial study solid topics, among which
are causes of Unrest in America"
Growth of Democracy in England. -
present Day Problems in France" and
''New Phases of the Eastern Question"
No better wording of her working
theory of the study of history could be
/ formulated than i'll this statement by an
other.
"A man receives power and knowledge
from his time in the degree in which he
suffers it to enlarge and vitalize him; he
iNoNS PoNtl anu hDtNltllSt III llit Qt-
gree in which he suffers it to limit his
vision and contine his interests.
THE Time Spirit is the greatest of all
teachers SO long as il is the interpreter of
the Eternal Spirit; it is the most fallible
and misleading OF teachers when it at
tempts to speak for itself. The impress
sion which the day makes upon US needs to
be tested 10y the impression which we re-
celve from the year; the Judgment of II
decade must be corrected by the judg
ment of century. To get even glimpse
OF the character and meaning of our own
time, we must, therefore, see it in its re-
| latlun to all time; to master any study we
must see it in its true historical relations
History is full of corrections for the
mistaken judgments OF the hour; and
from the hate or alteration of contempo-
raries the wise man turns to the clear
sighted and inexorable judgment OF pos
tenty In the far seeing vision of train
ed Intelligence the hour is never detached
from the day, or the day from the year,
and the year is always held in its place in
the century. Such a man sees the crown
shining above the cross and afar off his
ear notes the final crash of that which at
| the moment seems to carry with it the as
surance of eternal duration. He corrects
the teaching of the Time Spirit by con-
: slant reference to the Eternal Spirit. i'm
parted in the long training and the wide
| revelations of hiStOrv'