The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-11
BUTTE News,
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Interesting Sermon by the Rev.
j. L. Albritton.
INCREASE IN KNOWLEDGE
The Gospel Expands to the intellectual
Prog 7ss the Age-It Has Taken
. TO the Throne
q. Goa.
INCREASE IN KNOWLEDGE

Rev. j. L. Albritton preached at the
Auditorium yesterday on the subject,
Our Public Schools" or Our Increase
IN knowledge" There was large at
tendance and the music of the service
was of excellent character. The text
OF Mr.. Albrittons was from Daniel
xii:4, Man shall run to and fro. and
knowledge shall be increased" A por-
tlon of the sermon is subjoined
Daniels work is finished 1t is COM
plete. He is now to seal the book and
wait, The work he has done is for the
future. He can go to his place and
rest. His work will live on. Happy is
the man who can thus round up his life
and die in peace with the assurance
that he has started a work that will
i've on blessing the world. But thou,
y Daniel, shut up the words and seal
the book-even to the time of the end;
many shall run to and fro, and knowl-
edge shall be increased
The text is being literally fulfilled
in our day in a double sense. The age
is pre-eminently migratory, men are
everywhere on the move. Americans
are to-day in all parts of the world
and men from every nation on the
globe are in America. BY modern meth
DDS of travel stance is almost ami
Inflated, and time is as nothing. Men
are here to-day and hundreds of miles
away tomorrow. They are here this
week and in Europe next. While France
is disgracing herself again by condemn
ing an innocent man, we are shocked
thousands of miles away While the hor-
rible deed is being committed.
Why this mania for travelling? Ev-
cry one has his reason The emigrant
~. Al- r
gold, the hero for conquest the tourist
for pleasure, the philosopher for truth,
the missionary for souls, While the nat
ural result acknowledge is increased.
We know more of the physical world,
its geographical formation, it's extent,
ats climate, it's productions. its political
divisions. We know more of man
kind-his identity He is the same be-
ing everywhere. His spiritual condition
he is the sinful creature everywhere.
His salvation is taking place the same
way everywhere. What an accumula-
tion of knowledge we have in this age.
Our great discoveries are hardly cold in
their graves. Bacon, Newton, Harvey,
Locke, Watt, Morse and others are all
of this generation. And what is taking
place now? Our newspapers, telegraph
and telephone open the world to US.
We draw our fuel from the earth, our
light from the sky and learn lessons
upon these things that are general in
their character, we notice this morn
ing one of the principal sources of
knowledge.
''Our public school is the great foun-
dation stone upon whit rests the sys-
tenn of our country by which our chill
dren are trained into knowledge and
wisdom. l often think we do not ap-
preciate the public sChC ol as we should,
that we do not take re interest in 1t
that it demands at cur hands. We
should act wisely and irteiligently AMI
carefully in choosing proper men to act
upon our boa ds o. educa-i N. The
election of men 80 direct or schools
should be far above all party bias, and
have nothing 10 do whatever with poll
tics. The tea 2htre placed in position 10
instruct our chillran sh0nl1 be upheld
and encouraged. The sch pol sh .'ud be
hel5 UP before oar children as an insii-
tuition of the creates: IMPORTANCE. The
public school is one II the institutions
o. our Anne can republic. 1t cannot
die while III republic lives. 1t IS no.
connected with The churcn, nor should
it be. breaches acd priests have 10th
Hrg to do with the public schuo. nut to
2 old it up before the people ard Ell
oeavor as men and public servants Of
the people to pres We it in its in'cerity.
# one supports the public school he
has a tight to be represented in ii. If
Methodists educate their children in the
public school and uphold it, the chill
Z dren so educa ted should have the right
TO teach in the school If Catholics
do not oppose the public school and
their children are educated there, they
have the right to be employed as teach
ers, but not as Catholics, nor Method
lists, nor Presbyterians, but as teachers