The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-26
SERMON ON NEED
 OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Rev. Mir, Ewing Breaches al
 Church of the Advent.
BETTER THAN LIBRARIES
Churches and Benevolent orsaniza- tions Should HeIp-Proper Train ing for Little Children Will Re-
 duce Number of Criminals.

The Rev. Quincy Ewing, rector of the Church of the Advent, delivered ser mon at that church yesterday morning on "our Duty to the Children" discuss ing at length the need of free kinder eartens. Ills text was taken from Matt X 42 and xviii. 10, F and II.
 ''Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones cup of cold water only. .verlly l say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward. See that ye despise not one Of these little ones. How think ye? If any man have an hun dred sheep, and one of them be gone astray. doth he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains, and seek that which goeth asTay? Even so, 1t is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish
 MT. Ewing said In part:
 They are here, these children of the world. and children of the living God. II is Gods will that they should be here, and we are all glad to have them here when we count our population.
 But they are not simply here: they are to be something and to do something, good or bad, very good or very bad. They are here ready to start in the race of life, and start, somehow, they must. How they start. Is certain to affect some of us directly; many of us indirectly; and both directly and indirectly our children and our children's children. How they start, therefore, concerns us very intimately, and very deeply. and very widely. We can do something-we can do much--to see that they start right and not rong--unburdened of the heaviest handicap that the runner in life's race can bear-the handicap not of poverty in any of it's shapes, nor yet of inherit ance in any of its manifestations but of a heart unawakened to the things of the heart, of mind indifferent te the things of tLe mind of a soul unvisited and unglorhed by the visions and voices of the soul
 Need of Free kindergartens.
 Certainly as 8 community we are not unmlndful of the children. We pay out thousands of dollars annually for tho maintenance of our public schools, ant very excellent schools they are. But II remembering our public schools and tn hundreds of children in them, let us no forget that there are other hundreds out side them, hecause too young to get in- too young to get in the public schools but not too young to be at the beginnini of the races of life; not too young to b. taught; not too young to be started right Let them start wrong, now. and keel must elapse before many of them cai enter the public schools, and for all tha | can be done for them, then, by the ables and most conscientious teachers, tho chances are that the majority will neve be the boys and girls, the men anC love and wisdom stopped to them earle with loves and wisdoms awakening anC informing light.
 I believe the free Kindergarten Is thu best means yet devised for helping tn, children of any community, too young tt pC tHip AiA tAt PubllC btnVpiSf WIN are likely to go wrong and stay wrong unless they are started right. Try as can, cannot think of any nobler, wiser charity that any of us could support ii behalf of the worlds children than tn free kindergarten. I believe the goo' it is capable of doing, and Is doing, tn world over. is quite incalculable; an with heart, mind, and soul. I say God speed to the noble women and others wh are working in the face of difficulties t establish the free kindergarten in thos sections of our city where it is mos needed.
 Much as I should like to see free pull lie library in Birmingham, and lament tt lack of 1t, l should far rather know thf in every part of the city where a frt kindergarten school Is needed such school was in existence, properly equil ped and supported. than to be assure that MT. Carnegie had decided to bui and equip here the finest public llbrai in the south. Start the little ones righ and, when they get to be grown-ur they will be pretty certain to lay the hands on all the good books they W have time for. and digestion for. l. them start themselves wrong. and tl probability is, that when they get to grown-ups no library that MT. Carneg or any one else could build and eau would hold out to them any real good!
 It is not well that we should need
 lock up so many of our fellow-beings dark cells, or deem so many of the
 worthy of death with ropes about the
 necksl
 : Doubtless every free kindergarten SUI ported today in Birmingham means few CT criminals to lock up or hang twent years hence. Doubtless every dollar tn community spends wisely on It's chile
 hood will be restored to it, increase ten. or fifty, or q hundred fold, twent z years hence, in the character assets
 its manhood and womanhood. If we ar
 interested in the childhood of the com
 rnunlty-and of course we are; if we ar interested enough to devote to It fe' dollars or many, I know not how " could give them more wisely than support of one or another of the ire kindergarten schools already at work i this city; already at work. but not equiI
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