id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-246 chapter-246 .txt text/plain 179 15 88 [For the Inauguration of a Public School, Camden, New Jersey, 1874] An old mans thought of school, An old mans thought of school, An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot. Now only do I know you, O fair auroral skies--O morning dew upon the grass! And these I see, these sparkling eyes, These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives, Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships, Soon to sail out over the measureless seas, On the souls voyage. Only a lot of boys and girls? Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes? Only a public school? Ah more, infinitely more; (As George Fox raisd his warning cry, Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church? Why this is not the church at all--the church is living, ever living souls.) To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. ./cache/chapter-246.txt ./txt/chapter-246.txt