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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
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ans and nurses along with our train-ing in other directions, we shall notdisappoint our friends. Education is be-coming more practical everywhere andamong all peoples. So it should be.It was very natural that the colored fa-thers and mothers felt that they hadworked for years and when freed theirchildren must not do so. They natur-ally forgot that they had not worked—they were worked. There is a greatdifference between working and beingworked. It is a great privilege to work,to be independent; and no human beingworked as an ox or a horse, simplycarrying out the plan or conception ofanother mans mind, can measure upto any worthy standard of manhood orwomanhood. If our young people areto do the best for themselves, they mustbe taught along with their literarystudies the beauty and strength theymay gain in conceiving and perfectinga piece of work. If geometry does notmake it possible for a farmer to buildhis fences straight, to lay off his lotscorrectly, it is not of the greatest value
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Oblong Picture.— At Home on the Plantation At Top.— Big Meeting Day in Alabama. Middle.— A Country Home and its Owners. Plantation of 300 Acres Paid for. Bottom.— A Plantation Settlement Worker and Her Class. 142 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR (March, 1905 to him. If chemistry and physics do notteach him the handling of the soil, thevalue of manures, etc., it has failed justto such an extent. The young womencoming out from our schools, in orderto meet the larerer opportunities of com-munity work, must be educated, andthis means that they must be carefulteachers. Teachers of cooking, of thearts of dressmaking, millinery and weav-ing, are in demand, and the time willcome when our public schools will needwomen who can act as well as think.These two things were never intendedto be separate. In these later years edu-cators and friends are coming to seethis. Many people make the claim that theyoung women do not use their edu-cation for others. They are not willingto come into a house and ru

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