The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-14
1<3SATURDAY
GAIS1S NIGHT
! I SERMONS
BY
,5,,R ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
THE CuRBsToNE UNIVERSITY.

jim, my old clnssmnte, met me nt
college station. He's on the faculty
of rapidly growing college. Let's
stop here for n sandwich and JAVA" |
murmured. "Oh, you starved prophct'
he tainted. "Wnit till | get you to
old Baked Potato Pie chapter house.
I'll stun your preacher Jacket full of
chicken and watlles." l thought of
Tantalos a college dominates town,
OF course. Princeton town is Princeton
university, New Haven is Yale, Cam
bridge Is Harvard, Palo Alto is Leland
Stanford, Berkeley Is University OF
California. Sure! And the only school
ing worth while Is right here.
God Pity tho Poorl
That evening l hurried back to Tit
tie old New York" to address down
town mission. Oh, the lure OF the
cityl Here the throbbing pulse Is
near the surface. Here every forty
seconds an emigrant arrives, every six
minutes child Is born, every seven
minutes q funeral moves OFF, every two
hours some one killed by accident, ev-
cry ten hours some one commits sui
eide, every two days some one Is muir
dered. l passed down the most bril-
linnt street in the civilized world. Sons
and daughters OF luxury rolled by In
Haunting touring car or modest limou-
sine A turn of corner and | en-
tered new world. In few steps l
had gone through dozen layers OF
society. Every step Is down, darker,
filthier, Notwithstanding odor from
that cellar, startling oath from sub
terrnnean den; everywhere drink and
dope for mind and bodies craving food
and oxygen, stimulation for tagging
vitality; everywhere the hacking
cough everywhere the fearful fever
of unsatisded poverty. My mind went
back to the college campus and shade
trees. Children fiji the sidewalks
babies that never heard mother pray.
only swear: babies who will occupy
prisons, asylums, brothels Old ana
young, black and white. Jew and gen
tile, sick and SHINING, are herded to-
gether. Here the footpad brings his
plumber, the beggar his scraps, the
scarlet girl Of the street her booty
Mary Magdalene without repentance;
Lazarus, the leper, without his God.
BY the Eternal. though within sound
Of a hundred church bells, this is the
saddest spot on earth!
Tho curbstene College.
No education here? Yes, indeed!
This year the department Of education
will spend S27 ,5OO,OO0-and this only
fraction Of our national school bill
and book teaching only an infnitesi-
NAL part Of the education of the Amer
lean child. The real schools are out of
DOORS Most knowledge comes not
through books, but by observation
seeing and hearing A university is
not one school, but collection of
schools. The school of the street Is
the great university. Other schools
| are open six hours day, five days
week. nine or ten months year The
school of the street Is always open
| Children Of the town must go into the
street or into the coffin; there's no
choice. There are no hills, but houses;
no meadows. but asphalt. The arc
lights put out the stars Of heaven.
The street is the only school many can
attend In ten thousand cities and
towns Of our great republic the street
Is the instructor. Not town hall. or
high school. or public library Of the
community, but the street is the great
educator. There the children attend
willing and are apt learners. The dew
IFS tuition is free. Every day is ma
circulation day: every night is COM
mencement night
Yes, Your Children Too!
Say, mother. any Of your children
getting their education on the street?
Know where your boys and girls are
when you are at prayer meeting or
whist? Yes; Johnnie's at Jacks house,
and Susie's at-say, daddie, where did
Susie say she was going7 oh, yes!
She's at that new girl friends. Lottie-
what's her manner Are you sure? Do
you know that7 ''Of course do! Do
you mean to say All right, mother.
Don't feel hurt It's only n preachers
asking. one who used to be newspa-
per man. Some night when Johnnie
comes in with the smell of liquor on
him, some day when you are puzzled
about Susie's actions and hear of clan
destine meetings, this education will
become mighty real. But we've 80
many social engagements in the even
ings." But you don't let Fido out.
Some one might steal him. OF course
Ftdos valuable dog. Before God, IA
Their, ] would give Johnnie and Susie
as much thought as your house dog,
though the social sky should fall! Ev-
cry now and then n mother is shocked.
Little Bobbie, in petulance about some
trife, gives vent TO an oath. "Why,
Bobbie, where did you ever hear such
wordT" Some boy on the street"
A week ago a mother spent an evening
In terror and tears. Her little miss of
daughter with clear eyes asked her
] the meaning Of the vilest term of the
underworld. A schoolboy had spoken TO
her on the way home. What shall we
do-keep them Off the street? No: your
children must mingle with high and
low, impudent and modest, honest and
| dishonest clean and uncIaan Thay