Excerpt from The Children of the Parsonage: A True Story of Long Ago

Snobs and fools like to call such a life as his a narrow life. To those who honor us by reading these pages that is, to those who are neither snobs nor fools I will tell a little story.

At the request Of a French gentleman interested in our system of public education, which was then better then theirs, I asked our dear Old friend, in the year 18 53, how many Of the young people Of the town where he resided left the town to go out as teachers to the rest of the country. He answered frankly. Evidently, he was surprised by my question. He took it for granted that I knew. Why, all of them, he said.

This really meant - though it never seemed to him that it was his work - that in one detail only of his great duty he had watched the public schools, till they interested while they taught every child who was sent to them. It meant that these boys and girls grew up alive in the higher life and able to lead others into it. It meant that, when they came themselves to be men and women, they were willing and were able to go out to be teachers in the rest Of the world.

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