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lance with that of the mother and the
father. Truly they are the first or SOW
origins and the most divine Of priests.
The homes whose abiding principles
are the wholesome regard for the Ia"
OF labor and its benefits, love FOR mai
kind and reverence for God, measures
a nations greatness.
washington Is true to her trust, only
when she instills into the minds OF ner
sons and daughters. right IDEAS COLI
corning labor, it's blessings and It's oeh-
efits. so,
Earnest endeavor is the law OF nIe'
and the secret of all noble prosperity an
progress. Experience and Oberservation
show that the idle poor and the IDLE
rich are alike discontinued and unhappy
An Italian proverb says: HE who Ia
bors is tempted by one devil: he that
IN idle by a thousand" One OF the
greatest perils to modern society Is
that false and degrading prejudice a.
gainst work and an irrational and tooi-
ish striving to get ricn quickly without
labor. We owe no greater debt to the
children of the present generation than
to redeem them from this false concep-
ton of labor this foolish contempt Tor
work and set them OH the plane OF
higher and holier living where lie Is
made secure and rich by honest toll.
The greater university is the school
of effort in which labor is the strongest
lecturer, time, the registrar, and talent
and toll pay the tutiti r. That great
teacher who redeemed fall labor from
contempt said: MY Father worketh
hitherto, and 1 work, and to every man
his work"
The social problem of today seems to
be with many young people how to es-
cape from all work and responsibility
Many parents are malxinng serious sac
rifices in order to give their children
superior educational advantages with
the avowed intention of helping them
to escape from work rather than the
desire to fit them for that wider use
fulness which comes with Intellectual de-
velopment Seemingly they forget that
the greatest blessing of the cultivated
mind is in it's use. and that the real
value of knowledge consists in the appli-
cation Of it.
The deeper the draught at the foun-
tain of knowledge. the greater SHOULD
be the zeal and vigor to run the race
Again vast army of fathers ana
mothers strive long and earnestly. en-
during days of drudgery and nights O.
worry ignoring the debt of sympathy
and service they owe their fellowmen,
denying themselves the cOmpanionshipI
of their growing children. and even neg
lecting the means of divine worship in
the struggle to amass wealth. hoping
thereby to secure to their posterity
lives free from work and responsibility.
They ignore the fact that many man
IF millions works harder and longer than
any of his employees. Truly wealth be-
gets responsibility.
Some build their hopes and aspirations
IN a desire to transmit to their de-
'cendents great ancestral distinction and
social prestige. They heed not the SEN
iment of that American president, who
when asked what was his coat of arms,
My coat of arms Is pair OF
The accident OF birth can
make no man. Luther said. 1.-The secret
II life Is in the possessive pronoun." 1t
S what each man strives for that makes
,r mars him. Each should not only be
consumer, but a producer as WE'LL The
popular mind should be saturated with
he Philip Brooks philosopy that"Eve-
.ybody is in the world to govern and to
,bey. Every man Is at once both bene- |
actor ad beneficiary" The best man
II any community Is the most useful
nan in that community.
Washington should pledge to her peo-
pie homes and institutions which shall
not only impart true ideas and habits OF
labor and duty, but she should instill
into every fibre Of their being love
for God and a reverence for His word
and works Truly blessed Is the ma
ton whose God is the Lord
The State has already given her sons
and daughters a magnificent school sys-
TEN, with a noble army of devoted teach
ers, but she promises still more. Not
until every child Of her soil, wether In
lumber camps of her forests or the pop
ulovs cities, whether endowed with ply
steal perfection and moral rectitude, or
entering into life deficient in mind and
body, depraved in nature, shall have the
fullest and purest development possible,
has she redeemed her pledge.
Not until among that great band of
noble, faithful. teachers are eliminated
those who. not esteeming the sacredness
of the TASK, work only for the wage:
and rot Until those unpreDnretl for 80
diff. ult ad delicate a task hs training
human souls have been thoroughly fitted
Tor tneii duty. has she kept her pro'nise.
Concerning the development and ad-
vancement of education from that earl
lest school in Egypt, designed only for
the royal family and priesthood to the
broad and efficient school system of
our Rebublic, much has been said and
written. All this is helpful. We are win
moving the wheat from the chaff when
we are filling the storehouses of the
nations knowledge with facts gathered
by the comparative study Of all philo-
sophies, of all religions, of all litera-
lures, of all political institutions and Of
all educational systems.
True progress Is assured only by point
ing out and eliminating the defects OF
the past, and of the present and pre-
serving and perpetuating at the same
time the essance of what the past has
won and the present still achieving.
Washington wants for her children
the very best teachers possible. and to
fill this want she owes these teachers
the highest incentives and the broad
est opportunities for fitting themselves
for this high and sacred vocation. The
proper nurture and training of the
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