• 1735 West Point Road, Spokane, Wash., U.S.A. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
AND SOCIAL SERVICE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A Public School whose sons render no public service is miscalled ; and should be renamed " A Private School for the Sons of the Rich." Formerly the Public Schools sent up many more candidates than there were vacancies for com• missions in the line, while many of the cleverer boys went to the " Shop " or entered the " Indian Civil."
The conditions of that service are now such as .few men can submit to without loss of self-respect ; and the boys from the secondary schools who are lured into it are probably ignorant, until too .late, of the realities of Indian life to-day. Our present Public School boys may have lost the military spirit simply because they are " post-War " boys, though the virility displayed by men from other schools hardly bean out that supposition. Is, there not another eiplanation Christianity supplies the motive power bOth for patriotism and for social service.
May it not be that for some reason or other there are few
live teachers of Christianity in our schools at preSent. and our boys are perishing spiritually for lack of vision ? It is notorious that there is a dearth of candidates for. the Christian ministry. How could this be, if, in our Public Schools Christianity was taught. as the religion of Life and Hope ?-
I am, Sir, &c., .
C. Povisrz SANDEasos, • • • lion. C.F. Etizslcorth,
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