. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. greater abilitythan the parents to teach the child, must neverthelessunite the three features of education, piety, Uterature,and useful labor so as to give the child a rational philoso-phy of the life he is being educated to live. The home,they are taught, is to be a school, and the school a are urged to bring into the home every elementof the school which they can, and thus make themselves The Schools of God 251 the teachers i
. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. greater abilitythan the parents to teach the child, must neverthelessunite the three features of education, piety, Uterature,and useful labor so as to give the child a rational philoso-phy of the life he is being educated to live. The home,they are taught, is to be a school, and the school a are urged to bring into the home every elementof the school which they can, and thus make themselves The Schools of God 251 the teachers in greater and greater degree of their chil-dren. This view appeals to the parent, the most intelh-gent and the most ignorant, and the influence of thisteaching and practise has become very evident in thecommunity, in better and more attractive homes, andin some cases in a closer union between parent and is the ideal of the school, not to separate parent andchild by a gulf between learning and ignorance, but tomake each the helper and supporter of the other; forservice to the lowly as well as to the great is the maximof the kingdom of
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