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    168 MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOE GIRLS.

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    XXV.—MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOB GIRLS.

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    It is very easy to find fault with our N...

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    Ii.-^-Geape Gatherings. Whether Our Firs...

    miscliief when wine is concerned at all ; " a statement confirmed by the fact that the wine-growing countries are the least

    intemperate . A moderate quantity of pure wine , unadulterated by distilled spirit , is in most countries found beneficial to mankind , and it may

    be remembered that it is against " mixed wine" and those who " mingled strong drink" that Scriptural denunciations are levelled _,

    the Hebrews having early resorted to beverages more intoxicating than simple grape _jiiice . It is related of the great Akbar , that being

    once in , need of good gunners , he sent for some from an English vessel then in one of his portswhen the men being required to prove

    their ability by shooting at , a mark , one of them purposely misdirected his aim , and then turning to the Emperor apologized for his

    unskilfulness by stating that his having been long debarred from wine had injured his sightbut that if the monarch would only order

    wine to be brought for him , , he would make a display that would astonish him . A cup was accordingly broughtwhich the man

    , quaffed , and then immediately sent his shot into the very centre of the mark , whereupon Akbar ordered it to be recorded that " wine

    was as necessary to Europeans as water to fish , and to deprive them of it was to rob them of the greatest comfort of their lives , " and

    thenceforth gave permission to foreigners to cultivate vineyards in his dominions .

    In enumerating the honors paid to the vine we must not forget that it afforded one of the earliest offerings to the Deity , for " bread

    and wine" were brought forth to Abraham by Melchizedek , " the j ) riest of the most High God . " Consecrated too to the most sacred rite

    of the religion of Jesus , it has thus been made to us a link between heaven and earth ; and though we look not with the heathen or the

    Mussulman to an actual quaffing of grape juice as part of the bliss of eternityyet every Christian must feel that there is something '

    hallowed in , the symbol which reminds him of his future hope to

    drink hereafter " new wine in his Father ' s kingdom . "

    168 Middle Class Schools Foe Girls.

    168 MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOE GIRLS .

    Xxv.—Middle Class Schools Fob Girls.

    XXV . —MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOB GIRLS . A PAPER READ AT THE MEETING OP THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE , GLASGOW , 1860 .

    It Is Very Easy To Find Fault With Our N...

    It is very easy to find fault with our National and British Schools , and with our whole system of Government aid to education ; and

    also with the vast body of masters and mistresses sent out all over the country from , the great training schools and colleges supported by

    public funds ; and it is not difficult to say , with much apparent truth , that these crammed and certificated ladies and gentlemen are not

    giving a very good practical education to the working _jDeople of

    England . Perhaps the very first observation you make is that they

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/24/