The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-28
SAYS MORAL GROWTH NEEDED
Regrets Old Days When Bible Was
Read In Public School and Every
Child Knew Old and New Tesla
ment as Well as Speller.

'FThe most pertinent question in
connection with our national life and
our civic life today is the development
of citizenship" said Mayor Charles FL.
Pfennig in his sermon" delivered
yesterday morning from the Methodist
pulpit in which he told vital truths to
the record breaking congregation of
900 souls, gathered to hear him. "The
highest grade of citizenship can be de-
veloped only in the individual and the
individual must be lacking if we de-
velop his intellectual without develop
ing lis moral side. The moral and re-
hgious instruction of children is neces-
sary for rounded growth. The only
way we can have good citizens is to
have law abiding men and women and
men and women who not only know
how to read and write but who also
know how to distinguish between right
and wrong. Men and women must have
moral training to recognize their own
rights and privileges and with this
moral training will come recognition
of the duties which they owe to others.
Recalls Days of Bible in Schools.
q Many Of us can remember when
the graded schools under the control of
the state did not fear to have the Bible
read at the morning exercises, and
when it was not considered out of or
der for some Cody old teacher to offer
up a fervent prayer. These days be-
long to the forgotten past. The new
order Of things seems to hold that the
suggestion of the religious training is
too much of mingling of the church
and the state. Now we teach our boys
and girls how to add, and substract,
and multiply and divide, but this re-
lates to figures only. We do not teach
them to add faith to knowledge, and to
substract the wrong from the right, to
multiply the good graces, and divide
the good and the evil. In fact some
people think that our modern systems
of education overlook the real things
in training the mind and the heart.
True child can not come into contact
with the good teacher and come into
contact with her daily without absorb
ing some moral training, but systematic
teaching of morals is woefully lacking
in the modern systems of education.
Up to Parent and Church.
1T is right here that you as devoted
Christian men and women must meet
the failure Of the state. The entire
moral training of our boys and girls
must naturally become the duty of the
parents in the home and the church or
CARNATIONS. The parents in the home
are willing in many cases, but they fail
to understand the method by which the
children may be taught.
Should Read Good Book.
FThe public school gives to the chill
dren the rudiments of education, but it
is up to you men and women who are
interested in the moral welfare of your
community to render the higher service
of training the boys and girls into right
methods of living Knowledge of the
English Bible is greatly to be desired.
Not only is it the foundation of our
faith, but there is no more wonderful
poetry than the Song Of Solomon, no
more wonderful history Of the world s
most interesting people than is to be
found in the books Of the Old Tesla
ment. The story of the Christian re-
ligion, the most wonderful agent in the
civilization of the world, finds its only
authentic production in the books of
the New Testament. The children of
today should know the history of the
greatest movement in the history of
the world. They should know the suf-
fering Of its martyrs and the triumph
of it's saints.
S. S. Teachers Have Responsibility.
"The teachings of the Christian re-
ligion have no sinister influences. Ev-
cry boy who goes to Sunday school may
not be led into high minded life, but
the Sunday school is going to do some
thing to make the boy better-some-
thing to give him a realization of the
higher aims in life. He may forget
most of them when he begins to rub up
against the hardshlps Of the world, but
the things that cling to him will be for
his enobling.
"The men and women who teach in
our Sunday schools today are the real
power for the moulding of the lives of
the American children along the right
lines.
A. B. Ames Is Sneaker
This was but a part of the speech
which the mayor made, every word of
it filed with sound sense and truths
which met the commentator of his
hearers.
A. B. Ames followed the MAYORS adj