The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-25
SCHOOLBOY ESSAYS ON XMAS.
ONE ny Az ITALIAN, ONE BY 4
CHINESE, ONE BY a HEBREW.
Tho Chinese. chin Gums, Il President OF
His Public School Cass Of Grandson
OF Many Lands and II . Devout MethO'
dist - All Clever, Some Illustrated


His Public School Class Of Grands0ns
Of Many Lands and IL Devout sietho.
dist - All Clever. Some Illustrated.
A few days ago Mics A. NJ Walker, teacher
In the sixth grade of the public school at s
Henry street, told her pupils, whose ages
average II years, and not one Of whom u
Of American parentage, 10 write, each, a
composition. expressing In his own words
what he remembered OF some stanzas OF
Longfellow's christmas Carol which she
had read to them.
An Italian. Albert F. Gaimari, wrote
this:
II was one cold Christmas day az "a red
upon TIE landscape OF houses covered Wit,
mantle Of white. that the old familiar IA bell
T news ss e oaSae ssc
bined effort ali the bells Of all the church's
seemed ringing out In one tone: Peace on
cart =. good will to men.
this world Is full of hatred and wrong? But.
ahi there Is the Eternal Father who watches
us and guides us; and when the world is at
peace with zach other there can be pea ce
on earth and good will to men.
The boy illust rated his composition with
a pen-and-ink drawing Of snow-covered
church. A border Of holly surrounded the
picture, aud the penmanship was neat as
could he.
Another paper also was illustrated and
the handwriting was no lees neat though
penned by Chinese boy, Chin Chung. who
ha- been In school only three years and In
the country only two years longer. Chin
Chung wrote:
Year in. year out. the cheerful ringing OF
the old bells. bursting on our ears ~ all d.
rections. il perfectly familiar to each Of US
on heard esS R 30
Wild and sweet sound ~ though they said
and hard. through which the faithful doe
trines could not penstrats. ] thought TO NY
s,lr that there would De no peace on %nrth
over and over again. at last looked M to
the Creator. who Ia so wide-awake. watching
Therefore / believe that God, viii separate
that are wicked IN this world viii dwell in a
tsar dnt,a @ viii surely be acs ept"d t. abide
with Almighty God in. His eternal kingdom.
~a those %4 PEW milk words ard sSd nSs
you and me, to take our choice, Therefore
right way: that is the way by which We will
| all go to see God in lie mansion. Doin g
| this we should pray God to guide US
paper she was surprised ct its religious
tone. Inquiry showed that the boy Is a
| Me- hodi-t and devout Christian.
Young Chung IL the onlv Chinese In the
| class Of thirty-three, In which there is not a
| single son OF American parents. Ills fell
| low pupils are mostly Italians and Russian
Jews. but Chung is on the best Of terms
with them and is their Acknowledged
| leader. holding the post of president Of
| the class He is also the brightest Of any
| Of them and his schc 'arship Is 20 good that
the .eachers are thinking seriously Of
| allowing him to skip n grade and graduate
| in juno next
The best composition Of any in the class
| in Miss Walkers judgment was one by
| Samuel Sachs, fonrt cen vear-old Hebrew.
| Samuel decorated his effort with drawing
OF church stecple. The composition
read:
'Twa. on the bright and crisp morning Of
pea~ nj slumber by tie peal oft9e G. rist ma =
bells bursting upon my ears. How grand
ard sweet was the sound! Al intervals they
| rang ont loud and clenr then they subsidized
II appca red to me AS q ough they were 80 y
ing. Wit each mis,ty clng. Peace on earth.
GOOD will 10 men,
TNen in my reverie. I thought that every
same 70 niii5r words I lost ali tope of q il
being true Stlll the bells contir ucd their
rineing. hut 4 l. time ey conveyed differ
| ent words 10 me They seemed to say. TT o
wrong STALL not rule; but the icht shall tri,
umph and In the end the words OF that old
| carol viii 10 true!'
Miss Walker says thai she received sew
| eral compositions nearly as good az those
here printed. The boys, she saws, are even
brighter han those she taught in a school
uptown whose parents were more prosper
| Qua Americans.