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And then I lead 

 Thro' wood and mead, 

 Thro' mould and sod 

 Out unto God; 

 With love and cheer 

 I teach!* 



Education in the city owes much to the gifts of phil- 

 anthropy ; in the country, as yet, little or nothing. To 

 ask from men of wealth recognition of rural needs is 

 not to pauperize the country ; to claim equality of treat- 

 ment with the city is no more than to demand simple 

 justice. Buildings, equipment, endowment, are lavished 

 upon the city by men who indeed made their fortunes 

 there, but made them by means of sturdy country 

 strength, used, often, in controlling sources of affluence 

 whose origin is in the country. Such men owe the debts 

 of philanthropy to rural rather than to urban need. An 

 instance of a wise and generous gift for better education 

 in the country is found in the Rittenhouse School in 

 Lincoln County, Ontario. Mr. M. F. Rittenhouse hav 

 ing won ample means in lumbering, acknowledged tht j 

 debt he owed to the old one-roomed stone schoolhouse at 

 Jordan Harbor, where he had received his education, bv 

 giving to the neighborhood a well-equipped modern 

 school. Two school districts were united. The philan- 

 thropist in the case presented the enlarged district with 

 a graded school equipped for manual training and 

 domestic science, having a school garden and ample 

 grounds furnished with facilities for supervised reereu- 

 tion. The school grounds are four acres in extent. Not 

 yet satislievi \\-hli ibis provision for the neighborhood, 

 the donor went farther. Across the highway from the 



* L. H. Bailey, quoted in circular cited. 

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