The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-17
! about their poodles than about their

about their poodles than about their
pupils.
Mr.. Moninger thought that WON
en- with poodles ought to be made
to exchange them for babies. which
were the more natural thing for them.
He said that every community ought
to have babies in it.
f. O. Sellers gave a short talk He
advised the note taking habit. for
ideas and stories. How many Sun
day school teachers have said word
for Christ to the prisoners in jail,
to the policemen, to. the street car
conductors? We get enthusiasm in
the conventions, but come back next
year without having done a thing.
We learn by doing. There is no
Are you doing the business 10 the
limit Of your ability?
If business men conducted their
business like we do the Sunday
schools, they would be sent to an
insane asylum.
Mr.. Dietrich asked if we were
speaking to the boys who are going
to the jails. before they get in.
Address BY N. r. Douglas.
During the session yesterday after
noon Rev. IN. f. Douglas, Sunday
school secretary of the diocese of
Minnesota, delivered an address on
Our Responsibility TO the Child"
He said:
THE most valuable asset of sOcie-
ty is the character of its citizens.
The children of today are the citi-
Zens of tomorrow. We hold high
ideals as standards for the child. We
are all alike responsible for the at
tainment of those ideals. BY the
each carry an unavoidable social
share of obligation for helping for
ward the unfolding life of every
child. Obedience is esteemed a vir
tue. Obedience is a response to our
influence, a reply to our administra-
tion of duty. The answer depends
on us. Ideal obedience is impOssi-
BILE without ideal culture. A wire
less receiving station is dumb with
out a sending station. Children are
recording whatever we send in in
fuence by attitude, speech and ac-
ton. The memories of the child are
made up. in major part by the lin
gering echoes of your thoughts and
mine. The vital statistics, in the ex-
perience of the children, are verba-
tim reports of the lives of all the
grown people with whom they come
in contact. The character of the
child is a living invoice of the vary
ing values which leave their impress
in thousand ways from the activi
ties of the home, neighborhOod,
school, business and society. Nature
knows no method of growing q har-
vest without first sowing the seed.
The eXpectant harvest of plenty in
the county of the integrity of charac-
ter depends on our diligence in SOW
ing the seed of truth in that most
fertile of all fields, the enthusiastic
heart of the growing child. Finance
can not ignore the primary law that
dividends depend on investment. The
sterling worth Of character is the
only secure bond for the welfare of
society. Can the permanent posses
or, adequate dividends of efficiency
be reasonably sure without invest
ments which are both intelligent and
sufficient in the substantial worth
Of the future citizen? Reaction from
a too stringent external discipline OF
former days or trust in unguided
natural impulses will not solve the
problem. The scientific meaning of
infancy is the responsibility of
grown-ups for the child.
Cannot Afford to Evade Issue.
1--WE can not afford to evade the
issue lest the inspection of the day
of light shows us TO have buried the
treasure of which we are stewards
Two fundamental factors in religious
education denote emphasis and spe-
cial care. The two things, which the
Master said sum up all truth, are
love and duty. 1t is devotion and
loyalty expressed in the terms of
prayer and service. The culture of
worship is seldom neglected The
culture of a sense of duty is not
always equally in evidence. For an
extended period there has been
tendency to interpret religion in the
terms of privilege. Hence the per-
spective is somewhat out of focus.
The need is not less emphasis on
faith in the terms of privilege but
more emphasis on religion in the
terms of obligation. A receiving
faith must issue as giving faith
or else suffer the loss of its vitality.
Spiritual energy can not be kept I'm
cold storage without evaporation. If
faith fails to exercise in doing it
loses its capacity for enjoying. To
surround children with the atmos-
phere of an appealing faith of privi-
lege, however rich and complete in
ritual, eXquisit in music and elO-
quent in truth, if it lacks manual
training in the exercises of RESPONSE