The Abigail ..[Organ of the Abigail free school and kindergarten] . OLUTION OFTHE FUTURE. What should we not be ready to do for ourchildren. The child that is our future Zion, ourfuture nation. We must get at the little ones, before theirreason gets fully developed, we must lay in theirhearts the foundation for a feeling of responsi-bility to God for all their acts. Just as much ofthis as their little minds can grasp and no more !This will be their start for civilization andreligion. Such seed planted in their little hearts will notperish, though the world with its oppositionwill go to pieces.
The Abigail ..[Organ of the Abigail free school and kindergarten] . OLUTION OFTHE FUTURE. What should we not be ready to do for ourchildren. The child that is our future Zion, ourfuture nation. We must get at the little ones, before theirreason gets fully developed, we must lay in theirhearts the foundation for a feeling of responsi-bility to God for all their acts. Just as much ofthis as their little minds can grasp and no more !This will be their start for civilization andreligion. Such seed planted in their little hearts will notperish, though the world with its oppositionwill go to pieces. Such work requires faith in the Master andself-denial on the part of him who does it. Not much of eclat will accompany such work,and you know, the human heart, even when re-posing upon pulpit cushions and lingering forecclesiastical approval and perfection, is onlytoo often chasing the rainbows of glory andapplause. Yet it is worth foregoing all these things, whenwe remember that the child holds the solutionof all our cherished problems. 34 The Abigail .??^.«^w. Mrs. Abigail Huyler. 1 he Abigail Free School and Kindergarten waswas founded and opened on May 24th, 1889, inthe 5th Ward of this city at number 30 BeachStreet. Mr. J. S. Huyler, in conjunction with C. , after a good deal of praying and consult-ing undertook this eminently fundamental writer remembers well some of the thoughtssuggested to him by Mr. Huyler, when the advis-ability of starting this work was under their con-sideration. Mr. Huyler had served on various juries dur-ing this period. He had been a close observer ofthe cases coming before the judge and jury. Hewas struck by the frequency of criminal cases inwhich young boys of the age of 14 and overlargely figUi-ed. It grieved his heart to see theseyoung boys just at the opening epoch of a usefulcareer, nipped in the bud and sent, as bemgsdangerous to society, fettered behind the barsof penal institutions. Kecalling to his memory his own you
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