HARRISBURG, PA.:
R.L. Myers & Co.
1900.
Who, more than any other, has taught us how to afford opportunity forneglected, unfortunate and wayward boys and girls to transformthemselves into industrious, virtuous and upright citizens through themost remarkable institution in the land,
WILLIAM R. GEORGE,
FOUNDER OF
THE GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC,
THIS STUDY IS DEDICATED.
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HARRISBURG, PENNA.
Of all the problems which America faces on the land and on the seas, noone is so important as that of making regenerates out of degenerates.The massing of people in large cities, the incoming of vast multitudesfrom the impoverished masses of several European and Asiatic countries,the tendency to interpret liberty as license, the contagious nature ofmoral, as well as of physical, diseases combine to make it of the utmostimportance that American enterprise and moral force find ways and meansfor accomplishing this transformation. The grand results of the movementin New York city inspired by Jacob Riis; the fascinating benevolence ofthe Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, N.Y.; the marvelous transfiguration ofcharacter—I speak it reverently—at the George Junior Republic,Freeville, N.Y., added to the College Settlement and kindred effortsmerely indicate what may be accomplished when philanthropy supplementssaying by doing, and when Christianity stands for the beauty ofwholeness and is satisfied with nothing less than the physical, mentaland moral conversions of all classes among the masses at home as well asabroad, in the East as well as in the West.
A problem is primarily something thrown at us as a challenge for us tosee through it. To solve a problem is to loosen it so that it may belooked into or seen through. Whatever contributes to the loosening of aproblem by throwing light upon the conditions is of value in aiding inits solution, hence the publication of this study of the family ofJonathan Edwards as a contrast to the Jukes.
A.E.W.
Somerville, Mass., June 1, 1900.
Education is something more than going to school for a few weeks eachyear, is more than knowing how to read and write. It has to do withcharacter, with industry, and with patriotism. Education tends to doaway with vulgarity, pauperism, and crime, tends to prevent disease anddisgrace, and helps to manliness, success a