The decline and fall of the British Empire - University of Oregon

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the English and send their children
to a seminary before they have even
learned to walk. Excellent as such
institutions may be, they can never
supply the place of home, and the
parent who acquits himself of the
responsibility of educating his children
in the fear of God and in a reverent
love, not for lists of Jewish Kings or
Apostolic chronology, but for the
simple narrative of the New Testa-
ment, does so at the risk of its
lifelong happiness. Denominations
may clatter and theologians may
hold disputations, but the eternal
struggle between inclination and
duty is ever with us, and the life of
Christ is a surer guide than the
changing beacons of the churches.
Let us now turn to the more
practical side of Education which,
under modern conditions, must often
be dealt with by the Schoolmaster.
Here the English were equally to