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¦38" 4 CROWN AND CROSS.
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LIX.—CBOWN AND CROSS.
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It seemed a crown of cruel thorn, It see...
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_private of Government schools are assistance passed in over 1858 . Onl leaving y 6 , 89 nearl 7 schools y 19 , 000 were unassisted in receipt .
, -Much therefore remains to be accomplished . The badness of the _private schoolsthe irregular attendance of the children , and the early
, age at which they are withdrawn , must all be taken into consideration ~ fco prevent us from forming too favorable an estimate , and so lead to
l £ l relaxation of effort for improvement . Instances such as that of the _ILondon Lead Company , which might have been multiplied , serve to
ithat _^ show we what are it is as possible yet far to off achieve from , and any enoug result h has appro been aching said to to prove that
. achievement . We have noticed the chief points of interest in the education of
the independent poor , but we have by no means exhausted the subjects of interest contained in the Keport . Two important divisions ,
viz ., the education of paupers and criminals , we have left untouched ; and on the plans which the Commissioners bring forward for future
Legislative action we have not entered . Whoever desires to study any branch of the great question of Educationwe refer to the
Heport itself , which , except in its treatment of ragged , schools and the disagreeable tone which it assumes in animadverting on the faults
of teachers , is equally full and clear , fair in statement , and
reasonable in deduction . I . C .
¦38" 4 Crown And Cross.
¦ 38 " 4 _CROWN AND CROSS .
Lix.—Cbown And Cross.
_LIX . —CBOWN AND CROSS .
It Seemed A Crown Of Cruel Thorn, It See...
It seemed a crown of cruel thorn , It seemed a cross of bitter scorn ,
I bent my suffering brow to wear , I raised my feeble arms to bear .
I might have cast away the crown , But hands I loved had crushed it down ,
And pressed its stinging points of pain , Through quivering nerve , and bursting vein .
I might have shunned the cross to bear , But One—the Master—placed it there ;
And failing the appointed task _2 _sTo other service I might ask .
As on my weary way I passed , Ready to faint and fail at last ,
The burden under which I bent Became the staff on which I leant ;
And blossoms for the thorns had place ,
Upon my head a crowning grace ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/24/
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