The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-28

ours in allowing the child to drift along
from infancy to adolescence, and from
| adolescence to maturity, filling his mind
/ with exalted notions of his Importance,
and framing lofty and e-xtravagant no.
tions of the effects TO be wrought out
by his education unless it at
the same time inculcates that all this
Latin and Greek, this astronomy and
geology, this philosophy and biology,
this poetry and art, are not ends, but
only means to an end, and that end to
fit every man to whose hands they come
to be a more faithful laborer in the cir
cumStances in which he finds himself2
If they teach anything properly they
must teach that he must lay hold upon
what is nearest him; lies closest to his
feet" If judiciOus care is not taken an
advanced education will unfit it's pos
SCISSOR for any but the most exalted sit
nations, and failing these, as he must
fail, without powerful friends, if he is
not willing to begin at the lowest rung
of the ladder, then what? What for the
educated girl but a life of vice, and for
the educated boy but a precarious lv-
ing on his wits, a p~rofligate career and
a p~enitentiary, or a hangman'S moose
for the end.
in that they do not fashion proper ideals
and set before the youth proper patterns
association with their children. and, but
for their own conduct. furnish them with
! ed, viii fashion models for himself ac-
cording to the Heterogeneous elements
as not to reflect the baser elements of
his environment Construction along
proper lines is difficult, but destruction
and perverted notions can be soon ac-
complished by the unseen rock or the idle
a few weeks ago l called upon a lady
who is a school teacher, and conyersing
mark was elected She said: THE other
day. in taking up some compositions in
their names, one little boy signed him
self The Rounder.'" In those two words
uua c disclosed his ideal tho naffarn
cording to which that neglected child of
tender years had begun to shape his, life;
and -waggering gaits, and the saucy, i'm
pnde citia lee rb OF SO bd many Z 4 PIE the afrS y9u caSne 81
and their parents home their lodging
termed after .sThe Rounder.s -
Again / charge the parents with being
i nh;5drea 18e so mlare SSaapoqt.ni a en- , 5helr
our cbtirches are not ali that dheT ought
to be. That there are many defects in
them can not be denied, but whatever
side of morality, and the side of morality
is the side of good citizenship A. leading
the other day: Ninety per cent Of our
parents are derelict in their duty and
der the influence of the church" A great
church members. themselves. but never
their children to Sunday school, but do
upon the streets. engaging in a desecra-
1t is one Of the severest criticisms of
the young Negro. if it is true, that while
ward the church the young black ones are
growing away from it, To what is this
in bringing their children before the holy
altar where. once at least a week, they
may cPheur.edbdleesass 'n sen oer: 10 s IS 4 goddess
generation, and a goddess generation is a
vicious one. and vice is the mother OF
crime
I charge the churches with being far
sighted in their charitable endeavors-
They are constantly raising money for
carrying the gospel to the heather, for
find the heather nearer. They can help
them at their door Henry Martyr, one
Let charity begin at home, and then
spread around the world" / believe that
our own house should be clean before we
begin to sweep and garnish the house of
our n~eighbors. And l begin to believe that
it is folly for us to eXpend our efforts
at the salvation of the b~enighted thou
sands of miles from our shores until we
have accomplished the emp OfthOSe
of our sons and daughters in our own
households.
most potent causes for the criminal ten
dency among our young people. | believe
you. / believe that they should and will
challenge your earnest attention in your
that some systematic effort may be de-
vised to destroy this baleful tendency. 1t
i write. but hat we may be aroused to
the urgency of our task and the necessity
The nineteenth century has ended. The
legacy that it brings to the twentieth is q
legacy in the fruits and material and
spiritual achievement
And of all these the richest is that
to go to the relief of the sick and %afflict-
to those who stand in dark places that
that through our endeavors the world will
be a better place for us and our children