If this challenge speaks to you, consider it your solemn duty to make your teaching more God-honoring by filling it out with Perks's fine treatment of issues essential to your success. Creation, the fall of man and man's restoration are prominent Christian truths to which Perks refers time and again. The same fundamental doctrines were central to Hugh of St. Victor whose book, Didascalicon , is also reviewed in this issue. God will spew us out of His mouth if we are neither hot nor cold. May God mercifully grant a true revival among Christian schools by a return in full force to basic principles.
Perks points to one of many needed reforms in education, whether at home, at church or at school.
The burden of much of the reform spoken by Perks rests upon the schools which must continue to fulfill their Levitical role as leaders and servants in education. Perks's emphasis upon the importance of the teaching of the covenant in establishing human responsibility and divine interest in education must be given weighty consideration. Christian schools cannot 'baptize' common education of the day, but they must reckon with what interest God has in this activity. Perks does us a favor by directing our attention to the covenant. However, Perks has apparently not considered how God's interest in education was underscored by His call to the Levites.