The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-07
Editor Abbott Sits Education
al Democracy and Raps
Sunday Schools.
SAYS MOTHERS LILLY PAID.
MANY TEACHERS DRAW LESS
MONEY FOR THEIR SERVICES
THAN WOMEN CROOKS,

New York, Feb. 7-"Every child is
born a robber He is highway rob-
ber," was the declaration made by the
Rev. Lyman Abbott, d. D., LII. D., ed
ttor of the Outlook, during a discourse
given at the Academy OF Music. His
subject was The Spirit of Democracy
in Education"
With but little prelude, Mr.. Abbott
began sitting the human inclinations
from the cradle to the grave. He crit
icised the average Sunday school as a
either in instructing the youth in re-
1igion or forming the future life. He
declared that International Sunday
School leaflets do but little good
Then he probed deeply into the af-
fairs of the home, and said that there
was no one so i'll paid as the mother.
daughter or sister, in the house. He
made it a point that "the wife is no
more dependent, economically, on the
husband than the husband is on the
wife.
uTUS 10 GOuCdIIOn.
Turning to the problem of education,
he sifted the argument mo money to
pay for education"
why" he declared, you pay less for
a teacher sometimes than you do for
a cook He then declared that the
Japanese, with 80 per cent of their
children in the public schools had out
distanced the United States.
The first lesson to be inculcated in
the home" said he, lis obedience. The
child must learn that obedience to law
is the very foundation of civilization.
l would like to burn into the heart of
every mother this: That an indulgent
mother is a cruel mother. We try to
put up gate at Ellis Island to keep
anarchists out. We ought to put it
up in our nurseries. The very baby
in the cradle must learn that he must
obey. The sooner he learns the soon
er he is fitted for happier life. He
must learn that truth and justice are
the bonds that bind a community to-
gether. in place of arms and in place
of police
Is a Born Robber.
children should be taught the
rights of property and of person. Ev-
cry child is born a robber. He is a
highway rObber. He has not yet
yet learned the rights of property it
was satd, and the instance given of the
two babies being placed on the floor
the one having rattle. The other
child will creep to the first and take
the rattle away If he can, then laugh
with joy, while the other child cries.
He does not see the difference be-
tween falsehood and fiction and in all
these things he must have training in
truth and justice that he may form the
habit of right thinking" said DR.. Alb
bolt.
He must be taught to be self-support-
ing that he may not be a burden, but
may put as much into the treasury of
life as he takes out, it was declared.
Here DR.. Abbott said that there are
many kinds of self-support and that
there is no one SO ill-paid as the moth
err, daughter or sister in the house.
making the point that the wife is no
more dependent economically on the
husband than the husband is on the
wife," He said that he could not I'M
derstand the prejudice against manual
training, which is one form of express
able only as it is put into action. and
here the hand carries out what the
brain thinks out. thus teaching the
youth to put thought into deed.
Refers to the Church.
In speaking of what the church must
do for education. DR.. Abbott quoted
from a noted divine that the church
should take up secular teaching only
out of charity, or where it is necessary
and that the state should have author
aty over examinations. The lecturer
said that he, personally. thinks that
the state has no right to prohibit the
parent from teaching and no moral
right to prohibit the church from hav-
ing schools. but the church's great duty
is to teach the relation Of the human
to the divine. 1T may go further"
said DR.. Abbott, but this is it's first
duty. II it neglectS this, who shall
take it up? This is the great work of
the church.
Many Sunday schools were said to
be not teaching religion to the youths
not giving him what he should know
of God and the future life. The In
ternational Sunday school leaflets. TAX
ing up a few verses at time. giving
little homeletics. do not do this, and
even the modern criticism is not
taught. DR.. Abbott said. The youth
does not get the comprehensive idea
of the Bible that he should