Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-03-30
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sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national
degeneracy and ruin. John Adams, writing
to his wife, said: The education of our
children is never out of my mind. Train them
to virtue, habituate them to Industry, activ-
ity and spirit make them consider every
vice as shameful and unmanly. Fire them
with ambition to be useful. Make them dis
dain 10 be destitute of any useful knowledge"
The best Inheritance we can give our chill
dren IS good EDUCATION, backed by good
the school, and we have right to demand
that our schools have high moral standard,
and that that standard of morals be enforced
by the board. Public sentiment makes &.
town sober or drunken, as it Is expressed at
the ballot box. Public sentiment will make
our school what it ought to be. but 1t must be
expressed in the home by parent 20 child
The home needs bright intelligent boys and
girls, and young men and women. Home life
Will become sweeter and better because of
the refinement which education brings. The
harmon1es of home will be unbroken because
of the courtesy and kindness eXemplified in
the life of boys and girls who are pTacticing
what they have been taught. The home
needs the best you can bring to it-of laugh
ter, of joy, of intelligence, OF God. Stand by
the schoo! fol the sake of your home. The
community needs honest, true-hearted young
men and wo1 en-. Young men and women OF
brains, who will lead in social circles, In
church life, and in all that makes commu-
nifty bright cheerful and holy; that will give
to society a new code of morals that shall be
rs high as heaven and pure as the heart OF a
babe; or rather that shall put into practice
in their daily life the Ten Commandments,
with the Golden Rule added on. Pure-heart-
ed, sweet-mouthed, gentle-handed young
men and women, whose manhood and woman
hood shall bless the world and bring it up to
God.
Our nation needs citizenship that will be
honest in politics, loyal in patriotism, grasp
ing with ready intelligence the great prob
lens of our national life, and working them
out for the best interest of the nation. Let
us bear it In mind that our public school is
the safeguard of our nation and that the
material going into our schools from our
homes and coming out from the loom of
school life, enter into all departments of So
cial commercial or political life make or I'M
make our republic.
There has never been a time when God
needed sralwart men and women as now. The
hope of the church is in the young and so,
father and mother, L charge you to stand by
the school. Give it your earnest thought ana
prayer, Get in touch with school
life, until by teaching, influence and ex-
ample our boys and girls are led to be virtu-
Gus, pure and good. Ours is high and holy
and with the privilege comes the
God, the Great Father, has
to uS-to our care-prfceless jewels
to be cut and polished and fitted to adorn the
Palace of the King. Our boys and girls are
the treasures. We are responsible for them,
so far as our teaching, influence and example
can CO. 1t is ours to watch over them, TO
care for them, to shield them from the evils
and wickedneSs of life, Keep them clean,
strive to keep them pure, and help them to
be good.