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liven were the Bible honored in
our public scboola as tho word of God
ought to be, there are yet particulars
in which those schools may well
challenge solicitous attention.
I would like to entreat any pareut
whoso eye falls on this article to road
it through, and I would begin by
asking, Do you give any personal at
tention to the public schools? Do
you note their modes of instruction
and discipline? Do you visit the
one uearestyou, say once a month, or
even once a terra ?
Suppose your own children do not
go there, your interests are yet in
volved in those schools. A mighty
engine is there at work, shaping the
mind of the next generation, forming
tho children of the land, and molding
therefore the destinies of the coun
try. Be heedless, 1 pray you, no
longer!
For lear of being misunderstood,
let me stop here and pay a tribute
to the teachers of tho public schools.
As a class they are earnest and zeal
ous, able and faithful. Their duties
are most arduous, and they shrink
from no amdunt of fatigue and self
denial in Jiiicharging them. And,
moreover, under the influence of their
increasing esprit du co~ps, teaching is
ta t rising to the dignity of a profes
siou.
But the teachers themselves are
subjected to u system, and who that I
say that it is a system incapable of
improvement; or that it is in every
respect the best attainable ? Let us I
L’*i it in one particular. Go with
me, mother of children, to one of the
public schools.
