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remunerative employment, but when they cannot find it, they are urged to join the school, where every effort is made to improve & elevate them.

One hour each day is given to primary teaching, and good progress has been made in a single month by children & young women.  The older women of course make slow progress, but evince a strong desire to learn.  This, if encouraged, will stimulate them to greater sacrifices for their children and grandchildren.  If we would improve the children, we must have the co-operation of the parents - through them we can influence the children, whose [[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]] final allegiance is a law.

It is difficult, perhaps, for the freedmen to appreciate all the rich blessings of Freedom and understand and feel its sacred responsibilities.  True friends can aid them, and through and by the present generation, the children must be trained to seek an elevation that Slavery denied to the parents.

This teaching makes an important object of the School and already its results 

Transcription Notes:
the first word, remunerative, is supposed to be on previous page per S.I. instructions, but I cannot go back to change it with this new system.