altruistic as a
profession and more commercial than a generation ago.
Theology is waiting for new statements of what to teach and
how to teach. Therefore, men who are inclined to teach turn
to the common school, the high school, and the college to
find scope for influencing others for good.

As further explanation of the vast increase in the number of
the teachers required for the higher positions, I can give
exact figures for only the year 1905, compared with the year
1900. In 1900 there were enrolled in the high schools of New
York City 11,706 students; last year there were enrolled
20,770 students; in other words, they have almost doubled in
the space of five years.

Can sordid covetousness long be charged against a people whose youth
increasingly seek entrance into "the poorest-paid profession"?

MEN OF THE SOUTH WERE NEVER REBELS.

Confederates and Federals Were Patriots
Settling a Constitutional Question,
Says Ex-Secretary Herbert.

In an oration over the graves of the Confederate dead in Arlington
Cemetery a few weeks ago, Hilary A. Herbert, former Secretary of the Navy,
gave force to the opinion that General Robert E. Lee, and those who fought
with him during the Civil War, though secessionists, were not "rebels." He
said:

Was Robert E. Lee and were these dead comrades of ours
traitors? With the great war in which they fought far away
in the dim past, what we have a right to ask is, Were they,
the history and Constitution of the United States
considered, either technically or legally traitors?

This may be purely an academic question. In one sense it is,
because all admit that practically the union of these States
is indissoluble; but in another sense it is not, because
there are those in the North who are fond of repeating, even
to this day, "The North was eternally right, and the South
eternally wrong."

This is declamation with which history will have nothing to
do.

Then, again, there are those in the South who say that if
the South ever had the right to secede, it has, though it
will never exercise it, that right to-day, because war
never settles a principle. This too is declamation; it loses
sight of history.

War Has Settled Great Questions.

Every international dispute about rights, about principles,
that could not be adjusted by diplomacy, has b