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August 25, 1909. NOTHING BU' An American visiting Gla Scotch guide to be shown tl there was nothing to see in The same traveler, when way and the distance to Rv ply : "What do you want to nothing to see there but a Nothing but a school; b ant a thing the school has c( in which the young are tra future in its carc. Much of 1 of the best of men are give the past. But the teacher y^ars that are yet to come. In olden times the boys ai were sent to some old dan kept and perhaps be taught now the old dame's school and many Universities. II whole science and art of < enterprise! How lofty and gather the youth in its gr use tne lew years of grow shaping character, and pre measured benefaction to yoi in which that life will be s Education has become a has been given that the hi the noblest minds and larg women, are given to this n effort. If "education has bei and has many departments the wide scope of its undert of human knowledge is broi the schools. Great wealth is expende revenues and personal gifts the schools of the land. N< that for education, and no ever given so willingly. I many kinds, are housed in 1 buildings, monuments of tl erous benefaction of our ti Criticisms there are and this instruction and trainin mensely important, for the result for the generation t be kept under the eye and all be deeply interested an the welfare of the school a tion. And let criticism be heard and weighed, that n and better ways be found. Sometimes we think th< take too much, that too man rudiments and simple thing not so much needed in life, felt, is that for the intellect! moral is neglected, and w< the Ten Commandments we al lesson, and "the fear of ning of Wisdom." Widesj that some of the Universit THE PRESBYTERIA r A SCHOOL. sgow University asked his ie library. The guide said that but a lot of "bukes." in England, inquired the lgby, and received this refvn tn Rlicrhv fnr 2 Tliprp'e o- ~~ *v" *"v*v u school." ut how great and importune to be! It is the school lined for life, that has the :hc skill and effort of many n to repairing the evils of is working to improve the nd girls too young to work ne too old to.work, to be some simple things. And Has prown to be a College ow great has become the :ducation ! How vast the generous the purpose! To eat marching column, and th and opening mind, and pare it for life, is an unuth itself, and to the world spent. science to which the best iman mind has. Many of jest hearts, both men and oble department of human rome large it is also broad and steadily increases in aking. All the wide range ight into the curriculum of d every year, vast public . ~ ~..4- r 1.. > (U V. J7UUI tu UUl 11 tciv 1U1 d taxation is as popular as private contributions are nstitutions of learning, of Lhe most stately and costly le enlightenment and genmes. no doubt should be. All g of the young are so im: young life itself, and its o come, that they should scrutiny of all men. Let d constantly watchful for nd all the work of educafreely made and patiently listakes may be corrected, : common schools undery studies are required, that r,s are neglected for things A great fear, very widely lal and the ornamental, the i wish for the time when re the first and fundamentthe Lord was the begin5read is the apprehension ies have become poisoned N OF THE SOUTH. springs, and "too much learn Both in the high places of humble and remote of comm sonal character of the teacln cal point. The responsibility ?1~ 1 1- *1- - uudius <iiiu uniuiais, inai ins every kind, be men and won the young', in reverence and life. No learning or accom cepted where there is not r which is the foundation of al Let parents and all friends < school and college officials, youth and build them up in Our sympathy goes out to children of remote sections i leys. It were surely wise ; noble endeavor used in tow sections were extended in tl and difficult kind. SUNDAY OPENING AT In a very large proportion the United States Governme post-offices for at least an ho day. This can hardly be justifl cessity. If necessity were th in London, the largest city ; centre, the post-office is not < The doing of business at tl fluence in weakening the res laws of the States, especially Sabbath labor. It puts temptation before 1 1-1 : 1? -- >' t iu wuui improperly on rne L It invites God's chastiseme hemiah 13:17, we read this t< hath work: "Did not your i Sabbath) and did not our ( His reference is to the desti Nebuchadnezzar, and he ch fanation of the Sabbath. Fr< a lesson. Gipsy Smith, the English 1 home by a great meeting in which Rev. Campbell Morg gelist spoke very kindly anc flip rpppntinn \xrVn/*V? rnni - li\. 1 v'v-' people of this land. He sai tion of what America and its get amongst them and their never saw such crowds of i in the work?real genuine America is ripe for the great the world has ever known. 1 for meetings in Chicago an McNeil expressed the hope t something to pay back the America for the unforgetta Sankey. Life is something while the sent Life Is nothing when our grosser % ^Se . 7 ing has made men mad." learning and in the most on schools, it is the perer that is the most criti is very great with school tructors of the young, of len who shall live before I integrity and purity of plishment should be acespect for the religion 1 that is strong and good, if the young support the who aim to protect our moral character. > the neglected, forgotten uid far off mountain valand kind if some of the n and favored, populous lie schools of the remote THE POST OFFICE. of our cities and towns, nt opens the doors of its ur or more every Sabbath ( ed on any ground of nee plea, the answer is that ind the greatest business opened. le post-office has great inpect of the people for the / for the laws forbidding ihe postmaster and clerks .ord's day. nt on our nation. In Nejstimonv concerning Sabathers thus fnrofnrm the VI 3od bring all this evil?" -uction of the Temple by arges it upon their pro3m this, let America learn evangelist, was welcomed i Westminster Chapel, at ;an presided. The evanl warmly of America and eived from the Christian d, "You have no concepi people are like until you big cities." ' He said, "I men so deeply interested enthusiasm." He thinks est evangelistic campaign 3e is to return in October d Cincinnati. Rev. John hat Gipsy Smith is doing ; debt England owes to ble work of Moody and 168 heed the spirit's call; need engulfs It all.