The education and training of Presbyterian ministers during the early part of the nineteenth century was difficult as it is in any generation. In tracing the history of the Southern Presbyterian Church during that time period, we find the Sodom effect on the students. The self-perpetuation of the universities in Sodoms throughout the western world has destroyed the historical and biblical approach to education. The academy model was and still is apropos to this present time. That which is true and real is timeless.
History proves the result of a godless education.
The academy model will recover reality and purpose in education. An academy education will combine the metaphysical with the empirical. An academy education will insure that Christianity will pervade every aspect of life. An academy education will take the educational responsibility away from a godless, self-perpetuating university and return to the covenant parents. The responsibility rests upon the shoulders of parents to educate their children by the authority given in God's Revelation.