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even-handed justice — both of these, alas, plants not indigenous to 

 our peculiar soil ! — and start household life with some of the 

 larger virtues," in which the old-fashioned mother was apt to be 

 deficient ; and this through no fault of her own, but through never 

 having had her reason expanded and her judgment rendered sound 

 by appropriate exercise. Admirable as a mother for the child of 

 five or six, she was perfectly helpless before the problems, the 

 perversities, the conceits and temptations that beset us at fifteen 

 and sixteen. Now, not only may her love be counted on, but also 

 her help in judgment ; and as years go on the sad excuse, "But 

 mother doesn't know,'" will be heard less and less from our schoolboys 

 and girls. Such is my experience. 



On one point alone do I ask your pardon for an omission, and 

 that is, not emphasising the necessity for full and definite Christian 

 teaching not only at school but at college. I almost thought this 

 was unnecessary, but I see it was not. I have made it my one 

 aim in life ; amid much laughter and some opposition I started to 

 give the efforts of a lifetime to one endeavour, i.e., to unite the two 

 strongest forces in the world, Christianity and Education. My 

 Principalship of thirty-one years has borne some witness to this 

 effort in the noble body of missionaries, teachers, and " mothers " 

 sent out to labour for the extension of the Kingdom of Heaven. 



