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The nation aspires to immortality. It has a persistent instinct to better that which was bequeathed it, and to show the world something better in the way of progress and self-rule. The impulse, like that in one's own bosom, is divine. The sea shows color and motion in the mass. There is a Thinker behind all, encouraging nations to generous emulation. The new world is a fitting field. The United States is a fitting field. The United States is a fitting organism. Its grand school system seems providential. In it, our nation reads the prophecy of the future. Its wards must here grow up with intelligence to handle our great resources with skill; to be able to vote wisely, to obey, interpret and to make law; to meet the exigencies of the nation and give it a public conscience-to be its salt and light. In education, the religious side of the child's nature must have some notice. By divine delegation the State bears rule. This involves divine recognition in its

institutions and offices.

We revere the fathers of the Republic. We claim they built strong and well-even "better than they knew." They ascribed to a Personal God the founding of the nation. They took up the sword to avenge God-given rights. Many of our State constitutions recognize His providence. He seems to have led us also through the red tide of civil war, as He once led His chosen people through the Red Sea. Franklin recommended that old-time deliverance as a device for our national seal. The seal does bear the All-seeing eye, and the mottoes, "A new order of ages" and "He who began, shall finish the under

taking." May we with devout minds and high purposes, be instruments to do His will, pleased to be considered co-workers with Him, without Whom our activities are naught.

Our coins declare "In God we trust." His solemn and awful presence is invoked at the bar of office, the bar of justice and in spirit pervades the law and sanctions it. It is significant that the blazonry of heaven adorns the nation's shield, liberty-cap and flag.

All our institutions, and especially our schools, must conform to and deepen this idea, fundamental to the nation's organic life.

The public schools must be reformed or remodeled from time to time to meet the exigencies of social order, to diminish ignorance, vice and crime. Does the situation now command it?

Thoughtful minds fear that our schools do not come up to their high ideal. Hoodlumism seems on the increase; religious sentiment wanes; government offices are sneered at and distrusted; profane judges often disgrace the bench; venal influences control politics; public spirit sinks into mere partisanship and a mercenary hunt for office; labor and capital glare at each other; anarchy and bloodshed hang ever on the State's horizon, in clouds of muttering thunder; the news sheets are much disfigured with recitals of crime, and the family tie, the unit of social order, is loosened by a too free hand of divorce. Must we go the way of Ancient Rome?

What are the public schools doing in the emergency? It must be conceded that they do meet many of the exigencies of the State and pay for their cost to the people. They bring under strict discipline many who are denied it at home. They rear up in tolerance many who have been brought up under diverse church auspices and so stave off religious bigotry and perhaps religious war. Denominational schools

would draw lines.

They tend to assimilate the alien flood that pours in, through the invigorated life blood of their children. But can the public schools do better in the studies taught? "The letter killeth, the spirit giveth

Is not much of their intellectual work mechanical? They tend to turn out children too much like ten-penny nails-heads and stems all alike. They place education too much upon a low plane of a "Breadand-butter world." They do this more by omitting the higher incentives of education and by ignoring the true genesis of mind and its studies.

The results are, that the child falls in with a materialistic age, looks at education merely as a means of making a living or of ministering to sensual pleasure. He aims to be shrewd in business, crafty in