conscience and civil equality, such as no other province afforded, but the soil and the climate were better adapted to the needs of an agricultural people,—the occupation which the majority of these colonists followed.1 MOTIVES FOR ESTABLISHING CHARITY SCHOOLS These Germans, at first, by tradition and by

was a credit to the devoted women who had conducted it through several years of difficulties and trials. Another reason given for separating from the Union school was "that more good would be done, and the end in view more effectually accomplished, by attaching schools to the respective churches. The

laudable endeavors. The Society only awaits the encourage- ment of its fellow citizens, by contributions or subscriptions, to enable it to establish more schools on the plan of the latter,—as one for white and one for colored children are very much needed in the southern district of the city. We sincerely

their rules and regulations for the government of the institution, and expect to open the school on the first of July. [Times have changed. Few schools are now open in July]. Thus, from the activity and indefatigable exertions of the committee, in little more than two months from the passage of the law

establishment of public Schools and Seminaries of Learning has ever been considered by every well regulated Government a very great and Important object of public utility. That in a Commonwealth, like ours, every good Man, in our humble opinion, ought to be well acquainted with the prin- ciples of the

27th, 1821, a Sunday school was organized in Saint James's parish,' Lancaster, by the associate rector, the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg. This was the first parochial Sunday school in Lancaster, and its initiation dealt a severe blow to the Union society, as in quick succession schools were

evening last." Public Meetings Against Supporting Schools at Public Expense By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the sessions of 1821-2, passed an act to provide for the education of children at public expense within the city and incorporated boroughs in the

reference to the part the community has played in the advancement of education in the great common- wealth of Pennsylvania. Almost from the beginning, the people of Strasburg manifested an interest in education, and the subject of schools was ever an uppermost topic in their minds. The earliest teachers, we

greatest institutions for good that the world has ever known. In the year 1785, there was organized "The Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools throughout the British Dominions." In twenty-seven years it formed or aided 3,730 Sunday schools, with a membership of 303,981. The Rev. Oscar