Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . YVe are not afraid of the ultimate out-come of the controversy over the Wordof God. What we do feel fearful for isthat in the assaults upon its integrity,thousands shall be led into that unbe-lief which, denying in life the truthswhich God has written, shall be made inthe darkness of death to glorify God intheir destruction when the Word of Godlives on for their condemnation. THE EXTENSION KINDERGARTEN CHICAGO Mrs. A. Hinz CHILD up to two yearsis close to its moth-ers care. From thenon it begins to formhabits and build char-acter. What habitsand character will
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . YVe are not afraid of the ultimate out-come of the controversy over the Wordof God. What we do feel fearful for isthat in the assaults upon its integrity,thousands shall be led into that unbe-lief which, denying in life the truthswhich God has written, shall be made inthe darkness of death to glorify God intheir destruction when the Word of Godlives on for their condemnation. THE EXTENSION KINDERGARTEN CHICAGO Mrs. A. Hinz CHILD up to two yearsis close to its moth-ers care. From thenon it begins to formhabits and build char-acter. What habitsand character will ithave if left largely toitself, without direc-tion, especially in acity where a thousandlike it live mostly on the streets and havehomes crowded within a few blocks?As Christians we want to work forChrist, and give our lives to better theworld. Can we do better than beginwith the kindergarten, the garden where,instead of tending delicate plants andfragrant flowers, we watch and care forthe little children without such homes as. you and I hold dear? If these little totsare in the Sunday-school it is but a shorttime one day in a week, and this is notenough to help them as they need. Five months ago the Brethren Sun-day-school Extension opened a kinder-garten with an enrollment of eight, andat an expense of fifty dollars for ma-terial. There are twenty-three enrollednow. Most of them pay seventy-fivecents a month. Others ought to be inthe kindergarten, but their parents can-not see the need of sacrificing (shall Isay?) seventy-five cents worth of fineryor beer each month for the sake of a lit-tle child. We do not admit them free,for two reasons: it lowers the impor-tance of the work and pauperizes theparents, and then it is necessary to makethe work almost self-supporting. June1912 The Missionary Visitor 193 One can merely keep the childrenbusy, or at the same time also study howto lead each one to a Christian life. Atnight I often feel this burden; then, inthe morning, as I look
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