The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-09-03
WILL PRAY FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Thousands OF Ministers To
Offer Up Petition For Free
Education
EHRSTEIN LEADS HERE
Movement Il Preparatory TX
Big Conference at Portland
Next Year

Big Conference at Portland
Next Year
All the world will pray for the pub
lie schools on September 5. Rev. j.
]. Ehrstein will pronounce the pray
er in this city at the Presbyterian
church. From at least $500 pulpits
in America and as many more in
other countries simultaneous pray
er for free education will go up from
millions Of lips and the event WILDE
come an annual custom if the efforts
|of the National Reform Association
prevaii.i
This universal prayer is definite
part of the tremendous movement
which will eliminate in the Second
Worlds Christian Citizenship Con-
ference to be held in Portland. Ore
gon, June 29-July 6, 1913, which has
been in the process of organization
for nearly two years past.
Educators To BE AT Portland
Education generally and the public
schools in particular loom up large
| in this work and many Of the most
prominent educators in the world
will discuss the whole vast subjectof
education from the Portland plat
form.
September 8 has been selected as
| the date for this universal prayer be-
cause in most cities ii precedes the
opening of the public schools in the
I United States BY only few days,
4 the Sunday Schools are resuming in
large attendance and the teachers
of both are keyed up for their years
work and stand atune with the world
and this simultaneous prayer is to
bid all Of them Godspeed in their
work.
Good Way to Start Year
| When discussing this vast and in
teresting undertaking Rev. DR.. James
lis. Martin, of Pittsburgh. Pa. tbs
man who has organized the worlC
: for this prayer. said:
How can the school year be bet.
ter introduced than BY praying fol
the children and the youth of all ma
tions who are seeking, education?'
The magnitude Of the moral ant
spiritual interests involved in Thu
) vast work of education or affected
10y it. commends this suggestion t
all Christian citizens.
College Day LONG Observed
For more than seventy years tn
/ Day of Prayer for Colleges has beer
I observed by the Christian people in
/ terested in these institutions and in
calculable results for good have beer
! vouchsafed in answer to these pray
J ers. But while the student world il
! the United States numbers not fa
| from 100000 persons. there ar
! nearly seventeen millions in the com
i mon schools OF the nation.
For every student in the UNIVERSE
I ties. colleges and professional school
) there are eighty in the public schools
i What ought to be the bearing ant
effect OF this great agency on tn
, morals and religion Of the people
! This nation il, i'm important respect
q Christian nation. The education
provided for her future citizen
!, ought to correspond to the nationa
|, character in this respect. and shoul'
aim to transmit that character i
the coming generations.
Make Mem and Women
The supreme need off the nation
not for intelligent or mental cultur
in her citizens. important Is thes
are, but that they shall De men an
women Of good moral character
liable to distinguish the difference b
]. tween right and wrong and resolve
: to do what y right and 70 avoid an'
81 resist what II wrong.
A.