CRUSADE FOR THE COUNTRY SCHOOL 



Fewer and shorter sessions a day would 

 be another advantage. The teachers in at- 

 tendance grow weary even of excellent 

 inspirations and carry less nutriment away 

 than they would under a system allowing 

 rumination along with grazing. 



But with the right sort of institute lead- 

 ers we shall go away beyond all this in re- 

 form, making at least half the work at a 

 session field and laboratory practice in 

 botany, zoology, geology, astronomy and 

 the various other forms of agriculture and 

 nature study. Discard books, maps and 

 blackboards the while. Out to field, pas- 

 ture, wood, hillside, quarry and stream! 

 Look up to sun, sky and cloud. Here are 

 "the Worlds, Life and Nature, God's dread 

 Sabaoth." Here is what the great reformer, 

 John Wessel, used to call God's unabridged 

 revelation, better than all books or other 

 derivative knowledge, the source of science, 

 art, literature, morality and wisdom. 



The work just sketched is indeed a cru- 

 sade. Our weapons are not swords or can- 

 non, but ideals and incentives. Remember- 



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