Chapter 37—Christian Education
We are rapidly nearing the final crisis in this world’s history, and it
is important that we understand that the educational advantages offered
by our schools are to be different from those offered by the schools of
the world
Our ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range. There
is need of a broader scope, a higher aim. True education means more
than the perusal of a certain course of study. It means more than a
preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being,
and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the
harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual
powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and
for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come
In the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemp-
tion are one, for in education, as in redemption, “other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians
3:11
To bring man back into harmony with God, so to elevate and
ennoble his moral nature that he may again reflect the image of the
Creator, is the great purpose of all the education and discipline of life.
So important was this work that the Saviour left the courts of heaven
and came in person to this earth, that He might teach men how to
obtain a fitness for the higher life
It is so easy to drift into worldly plans, methods, and customs and
have no more thought of the time in which we live, or of the great
work to be accomplished, than had the people in Noah’s day. There is
constant danger that our educators will travel over the same ground as
did the Jews, conforming to customs, practices, and traditions which
God has not given. With tenacity and firmness some cling to old
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