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growing faith in their behalf in the blood of Jesus, and the power
and efficiency of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to keep them
from falling; because they are constantly seeking the strongholds of a
healthful and well-balanced Christian experience, carrying with them
qualifications for future usefulness, and intelligence, and piety. The
teachers see and feel that they must labor not to dwarf and taint the
minds of their associates, with a sickly half-religious service. There
is need of separating from our educational institutions an erroneous,
polluted literature, so that ideas will not be received as seeds of sin.
Let none suppose that education means a study of books that will lead
to the reception of ideas of authors that will sow seed and spring up to
bear fruit that must be bound up in bundles with the world, separating
them from the Source of all wisdom, all efficiency,
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and all power, leaving them the sport of Satan’s arch-deceiving power.
A pure education for youth in our schools, undiluted with heathen
philosophy, is a positive necessity in literary lines.
The well-being, the happiness, of the religious life in the families
with which they are connected, the prosperity and piety of the church
of which they are members, are largely dependent upon the religious
education that the youth have received in our schools.
Granville, N.S.W.,
June 12, 1895.
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