The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
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900; the total number of teachers in
the public schools is about 10000, .knd
the pupils number 100000. The school
fund has additional resources, which
Fourteen thousand pupils attend the
state high schools, each of which Fe-
ceives liberal allowance from the pub
lie treasury, in addition to the proceeds
OF local taxation.
There are more than 100000 volumes
In the common school libraries, which
are literally aided by the state.
There are five state normal schools
with total enrolment of nearly $500
students, and costing $4,000 per an
mum.
Summer training schools are main
more than 5000 teachers are enrolled
for technical instruction.
The University of Minnesota, with it's
Colleges Of Science, Literature and
Arts, Engineering, Agriculture, Medi-
cine and Law, maintains an exalted
tates Of learning. It's total F enroll ine1
of more than 5000 students testifes
to its value, as the exponent of liberal
culture, among the forces engaged in
uplifting the commonwealth and diffus-
ing the benefits of higher education.
will ultimately exceed 100000; an
annual tax levy of about $150,OOO, and
frequent generous appropriations, show
the public 8 continuing interest in this
grand institution.
A phenomenally successful depart
ment of the university, of enormous
practical benefit to the people, is the
College of Agriculture. With a mag
nifcent equipment, an able faculty and
an enrolment of 600 students, coming
| directly from the farms to learn i'm
proved methods of doing their daily
work, it infuses, year by year, increas-
ing streams of valuable knowledge into
the lifecurrents Of our leading industry.
Agricultural science seems destined to
become the most complete and the most
| useful, as it is the most complex in the
curriculum, and Minnesota is already
far in advance in stimulating it's de-
velopment.
Of the prime requisites for an adequate,
ideal, satisfactory home life, the pres
ence Of abundant educational advan-
| tages, is here amply supplied. But this
is not the only requisite. If it be true,
as has been asserted, that the business
of religion is not merely to insure man
against fire in another world but to
create an insurable interest in him. for
the benefit Of himself and other people
now living in this world-then the
moral aspect of our present existence
takes on an Importance scarcely second
to any other consideration: In that
case, the plain duty of man is the max
ing of himself, while making the most
Of the world in which he dwells, build
ing up society, advancing the common
wealth, bringing forward that day when
the wilderness shall blossom as the rose
and the prairies shall CLEAN with the
gold Of their affluent harvests.
It may be that we are stepped in orig
inal sin, inherited from our remote an
ccstors. It is certain that such of them
as we know most about had an album
dance of that commodity to transmit
to their multitudinous posterity. How
many of the Old Testament worthless,
these days, be permitted to live out
side the murderers' row Of a we'll
guarded penitentiary-except such as
developed an aptitude for practical
politics?
But the fact is that the human fam
lily has been gradually unfolding, on
the moral as well as the intellectual
side-growing better as well as grow
ing wiser. There has been the steady
evolution Of a rational soul, an INTEL
lectual capacity, moral and spiritual
nature. There has been the constant
development of powers that dispel the
darkness which hangs over the most
fidence in the destiny of our fellow.
men; that give a clear standpoint from
which we may look, by faith, into the
mysteries Of the momentous future
In the ministrations of an undefiled
religion, the highest morality finds it's
these ministrations be purer; where can
sound precepts be more cordially &C.
cepted; where can correct principles
more universally prevail; where can
| genuine morality more abundantly
! flourish than among people whose