The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
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Sabbath Lessons.
Notable DAYS.
OUR SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS.


OF getting wisdom and understanding and
not forgetting. Take fast hold Of in
Struction; let her not go.''
one or the chief glories of America is
It's system of free schools. This public
instruction is also one of the finest bull
Warhs or our liberties. Almost no other
agency is so powerful in uniting the peo-
PIE III common thought and purpose as
TINS. Rich and poor meet together and
study the same subjects from the same
BOOKS and under the same teachers. No
matter how different have been the ideas
OF ancestors in other lands or how widely
apart the social conditions and comforts
OF the present homes, these children are
companions III study and sports and learn
to know each other.
The schools of the church do not at
tempt to replace our free public schools.
They I'll an entirely different demand.
Ihefe are large numbers of our young
people who are far from public schools
or nigh grade or who from special cir
cumstances need particular courses of
STUDY not provided in them. Such find
IN our academies just what they need.
AT certain age it is, as a rule of
great advantage to young men and wom-
en- to have opportunity to associate with
others than those they have grown with
from chlldhood. However good the local
schools, growing boy and girl from six
teen to twenty years of age will often
gain great advantage by a year away
from nome at some boarding school. New
ideas of life, more refined manners, quick
ening into activity of dormant powers,
OFTEN come from this contact with a larg-
er world. Self-reiance is cultivated at a
time when it is particularly valuable
deeper appreciation of home and firm ar
resolutions for a worthy life are quite
apt to result also from this separation
from home
Of course there are dangers in this
school life as well as advantages. The
boy or girl who seeks evil will find it, If
home restraint has been rigid and me-
chanlcdI rather than reasonable and af-
fectlonate, the removal of the parental
punlShef and spy may lead the child to
riot In forbidden things from pure per-
versity, lack of moral strength, or an I'M
duly represSed and starved appetite or
perverted taste and Imagination. The boy
who was goodish at home and made to
walk strictly without regard to his opin-
ions and the needs of his expanding ma
ture may get wild. Boys who had no
games at home may learn when away at
school to play cards and gamble but
these are the exceptions.
Our Schools as rule, cultivate manli-
ness and pure Womanhood in their stu
dents and are in general far above the
moral and religious influence. The ia
nillarity of the family circle gives place
to the more dignifed and refined associa-
ton of the company of semi-strangers.
Manners are the expression Of manliness
recognized and growing. Self-respect and
individual responsibility are recognized
as is hardly possible in most homes
Association with choice minds and spir-
its of teachers devoted to God and who
have made special study of the nature
of young life as well as their more par
ticular branches of learning, meeting and
competing with other young people who
are fitting for life in all departments of
activity-an this under the best religious
influences is what our higher schools give
cur boys and girls.
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK
Jan. q is the anniversary of the birth,
in 1859, of the present German emperor.
This is also the dav of st. John ChrYsos-
tom,- one of the celebrated fathers of the
Greek church. He was a voluminous
writer, and was known as the golden
mouthed. This day is also the anniver-
sary Of the birth, in 1856. Of Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. famous musician and
composer, who died in 1871 and was buried
III an unknown grave.
the English church for the martyrdom of
Charles l. In 1887 among the first Of
fetal acts of Queen Victoria was to re-
affirm the observance of this day. but in
1859 she abolished it. This is also the an
niversary of the birth, in 1916 of Gen. N.
?. Banks.
Jan. 20 is honored in the Church of the
New Jerusalem as The birthday in 1858 of
Swedenborg, the founder of the sect.
This day is also the anniversary Of the
birth, in 1877, of Thomas Paine. the
deistical writer.
Jan 81 is the anniversary of the birth
in 1852, of Gouveneur Morris, American
statesman; of Franz Schubert. in 1897. an
eminent German COMPOSER: of James q.
Blaine in 1890. American statesman.
jan &c is Septuagesima (Seventieth)
Sunday, being in round numbers seventy
days before Easter. The word comes
from the Latin. 1t is also the dav or
St. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna. He was
a pupil of st. John. and was martyred in
Sc for being Christian. His followers
agreed to keep the day of his martyrdom
as his ''birthday''-into the better life.
This is probably the origin of keeping
saints days.
Feb. 1 is the dav of St. Ignatius. who
occupies an important place in the his
tory of Christianity. as an immediate
disciple and successor to the apostles. He
was a bishop of Antioch and suffered
martyrdom in Rome. This is also the day
of st. Bridget Cor Brigid) whose influence
in spreading Christianity in Ireland is
considered second only to that of st.
Patrick, and she shares with him the
spiritual patronage of that country.