The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-07-18

Western Roman empire. / I.
y II recently read the first twelve
lines of Milton's Paradise Lost
before a group of college men. !
then asked for a explanation Of the
lines.andI am ashamed to say that
not one man could give it'll dare
say that not half the men one meet
n business every day could explain
those Biblical references. And yet
these men are familiar with Grecian
mythology and with the pagan re-
ligions. Their kowledge of the life
of ancient Rome and Greece is
more accurate than Of the nine
tenth century, and solely because
they understand the religions Of
those times.
1.-THE quarreling of the churches
and sects, each claiming the treasure
house of English literature as solely
their own has made the Bible in
accessible to pupil We are on the
point of impoverishing our life
and literature and are facing an ex-
ceedingly dangerous state of morals
and affairs when we lack proper un-
derstanding of thu christianity
which is at the very basis of all the
history since the fall of Rome and
the very foundation of our American
liberty and progress.
II realize that there exist sharp
difference of opinion, but facing
them boldly. I plead with all my
might that the Bible be again given
ton at least of the great army Of
those who never reach the high
school leave school because they
can better utilize their time. This
is a sad evidence of the effect of
waste. If we can reduce our course
we shall enrich the education of
countless thousands with every
day and hour saved"
E. A. Alderman of New Orleans
spoke interestingly of educational
problems and progress in the South
and referred approximately to the
steady elimination of the last traces
of observation-disclosures Press.
MANIFEST DUTY OF PARENTS.
A boy of Is years of age who had
successfully worked to the head OF
his class in a Hoboken grammar
school, and who was to have been
the class valedictorian developed
an affection Of the heart, and after
the examination was 80 exhausted
that he took to his bed. He was
anxious for his diploma, and to
please him in his sickness the school
authorities made it out and gave it
to his teacher to present to him; but
before the teacher reached his home
he had died. And the reflection is
that this is one of the tragedies of
overstudy and a testimony to the
barDarity of strenuous school
system. OF this individual case we
know nothing; but of suon cases in
general it is not unjust to say that
they are the tragedies of unreason-
able parental ambition and tes-
timony to the negligence and reck-
lessness of fathers and mothers. 1t
is an extraordinary boy who at Is
years old determines of himself to
go to the head of his grammar
school class and to be the valedic-
torian; and most boys can be I'M
plicitly trusted not to allow such an
ambition to injr1re their health.
Teachers and parents and tasks.
and even the system, are usually
futile in their attacks upon the boys
physical system, so far as study is
concerned. So, when a boy who
needs restraint does appear, nothing
is more obvious to discerning
mind than that the first duty is to
restrain him, and that no parent
can honorbly shift that duty to the
teacher, or put the blame for its
non-observance upon the course of
study or upon the school system.
That SO many boys escape alive and
we'll is proof sufficient that a boy
need not be killed by his school; but
if the parent does not make sure
that he is not being killed, who
villa That is what parents are for:
.Harper's Weekly.
READ 1T IN HIS NEWSPAPERS.
George Schaub, a we'll known
German citizen Of New Lebanon, I,