The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-06

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10 the way> OF our fathers. but WE had
10 fall into line anal bc rccuuciled IL Wha;
We could not help. The world was
against ~; Prussia. France. Germany
and New England. where all the develop
nlent comes from. Still >un@. of III felt
that il was hard and unjust 10 hc taxed
for the education pf other peoples chiI-
dren when We had already paid Ter our
own under the old plan. In the old cuun-
Try the Young man have - pay il back
III military service.
But every how and then somebody
raises 4 rumpuS. and abuses tht whole
thlng-the mode of teaching the cNciu-
sion of the Bible and Inoyning prayers,
and the intiictiou OF corporal punishment.
If | had lay Way | would reform some
things. but | am only one man, and there
are many men of man minds. | would
give the Bible a place If ii drove our the
children Of every di>>tntcr III the land;
not 4 place To he taught as 4 study. or
for >ectdrlan doctrines, but 4 place 10 bt
read at the opening Of the exercises and
TO be respected as the oracle of God.
This is 4 Christian country aud We base
all law and legislation upon the Bible:
every officer of the law il sworn upon il
from the President down 10 a petty con-
stable, including the judges Of the su-
preme cour and all the other courts, the
members Of Congress and all uf the le.i>-
lators. Congress has its chaplain ANA
all how in reverence in the morning
prayer. SO has the House and senate Of
Georgia; and yet there are always one
or more members who are Jews or inf
dels or agnostics. Judah, Benjamin and
David Iulee were United States Scna-
tors and they We're great ana good men
of the Hebrew faith. and always bowed
their heads reverently To the blind chap
lain's prayer. Major X. j. Moses. a dis
~tinguished jew Of Columbus, was the
speaker Of our Georgia House IN 1866,
and with his gavel solemnly called the
members to their feet when the chaplain
stretched forth his hands To heaven. Our
Governor is not Il member of amy church,
but had to confess his faith III the Bible
when he was sworn into office.
Then, If all these great and learned
men who represent this government. both
State and national, do not hesitate to
honor the sacred book. what is the mat
ter with children in the public schools:
Are they to have no moral training? No
reverence for the word of God: Is there
a college in Georgia that does not open
every days exercises with morning pray
er? Then why this immunity to children
this locking out the Bible and its code
of morals that the ages have sanctioned:
What means the observance OF the Sab
bath and the sound Of the church going
bells? What means all the mighty efforts
OF our people to send the Bible to the
heather. and through our missionaries
to ChristianiZe the world: What i there
peculiar to our children that they shall
mot be taught anything sacred: The
very exclusion of the Bible casts Il Shad-
a- 80 ln,l+ ,nJ ,,t nj u ,i,,.,, ~
truth: and added to this comes ever and
anon the attacks Of such men as niger
soil and Abbott and Mitchell. who seek
to knock out one Of the pillars Of the
sacred volume. But the reply Is that
| these diSSenter> are taxed to support the
| schools. and their religious CONVICTIONS
must be respected. Theft convictions are
not respected in any other department Of
public policy. They can't work on the
| Sabbath nor can their children play ball
or hunt or frolic. Every letter that Is
written in their business or their families
| has Il date Of 1900, which means 1900
Ammo Domini. But | forbear. | am
! only one man. and have 10 hackers save
perhaps Dr.. Holdcrby. With him
agree that far. but | never was more
surprised than to read his vehement phi
| lipic against corporal punishment. Either
he or | is Il crank upon that subject.
And he is Il minister. and | supposed
would have been guided by the wisdom
! of Moses and Solomon His indignation
at the thought Of somebody else whip
ping his child is very great. He y very
emphatic and almost bclliyerent. If the
teacher was Il man and should. rs ~
says. Lay the weight of his finger upon
his child" | believe he would fight. II
the teacher WAS Il woman | dOn | KNOW
what he would 30. But | will say that
if | was the teacher his children shouldn't
come to my school at all. ! would reject
them at the start. for the first thing a
child should be taught is obedience. and
if the child has already been Taught de
fance rather. then the child should not
come to me.
But the good doctor need not be alarm
ed. for his children will never be my pu-
pils-thank the Lord.
believe i'll corporal punishment in
schools. that *. for bad boys. never
saw but one girl whipped. and she de-
served il. She was 10 spring chicken.
either. was raised on corp0ral pun
iShment. both at home and at school. !
did not get it often. but at long inter
walls. but | -ot it when forbe+arancc had
ceased to he a virtue, and il was admin
iStered like medicine and WIS always i
! good cathartic.
If this was all WRONG and made me
worse instead OF better and Inundated
my pride. a the doctors say. then /
must consider myself al injured ar>dIi.
and hire Il lawyer 10 sue. somebody Tor
! damages: for Blackstone says there l.
10 wrong without a remedy. Bur my
teachers are All dead: and they were all
dead broke before they died. AZ all teach
ers are. SO. | have 10 remedy. Now.
Of course. there are children who never
need punishment either al home or at
School-preacher>' children and some
mild-eyed Jerseys who are good con>.l-
t~utionally. Most all girls are that WAY.
bless their hearts. but original sin i de-
velGped early iii most boys. and If not
restrained grows into moral turpltude
and ends in total depravity and the
chaingang. Old Eli got his neck broken
for not restraining his boys. and they
came to 4 bad end. Eli WAS a Ir. acher.
Solomon said. "Nithhold not correction
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