The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-01
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Ignorance of the Bible.
Take this matter of ignorance oil
the Bible. Il cent statistics show
that il exists, to an extent inCon.
eelvable TO any person generation
ago, in college students. And
this ignorance is disclosed not in
attempted religious instruction,
but in the study of the ordinary
branches of u literary education in
our universities and colleges. The
pupils are entirely unable to un.
derstard "A great mass of illusions
IN the masterpieces OF English pc.
etry ana prose. Some ul these pu-
pills are victims OF the idea that
the Bible should not be read by
the Young, for fear that they will be
prejudiced IN religious way be-
fore their minds are mature enough
To select Il religion for themselves.
Now, wholly apart from its reigi.
GUS or from its ethical value, the
Bible Is the one book that no in.
telligent person who wishes TO
come INTO contact with the world
OF thought and to share the ideas
OF the great minds of the Christian
ERA can afford TO be ignorant of.
All modern literature and all art
are permealrd with it. There is
scarcely great work in the Ian
guuge thut'can be FULLY understood
and enjoyed without this knowl.
edge, 81 lull is it OF illusions and
illustrations from the Bible. This
is true OF fiction, o. poetry, Of eco
homie and of philosophic works,
and also OF the scientific and even
agnostic treatises. 1t is not at all
a question OF religion, or theology,
or of dogma, it is Of question OF
general intelligence. A boy or girl
at college, in the presence Of the
works set for either to master, with
out a fair knowledge of the Bible, is
IN ignoramus, and is disadvantage
ed accordingly. tits in itself al.
most a liberal education. as many
great masters in literature have les-
titled. 1t has so entered into law,
literature, thought, the whole mod.
ern life of the Christian world. that
Ignorance Of it is a mo5s serious
disadvantage to the student.
How this is to be overcome in
our machine system is a grave
question. 1t results partly from
the discontinuance # the use OF
the Bible in the public schools, but
more especially from the change in
the estimation in which it is held
in the family. In comp trison with
its position in tbs family a genera
tior ago, it is now u neglecte d
book. It's neglected : literature.
There are several su gestiOns for
reviving interest IN it. One of
them is already in operation in
Sundav-schOol work. Another is
its study as literature in the
schools and colleges. But we be-
lieve that the change will only
come effectively by attention to the
fundamental cause of this ignorance,
the neglect of its use in the home
in childhood If its great treasures
are not part of growing child.
hood, they will always he external
to the late possesser. Ia the tam.
lily is where this education, must
begin, and it will then be, as it used
to be, an easy and unconseious ed.
ucation, a stimulus to the imagina.
ton, and a ready key to the great
world OF tradition, custom, history
literature. From the Editor.
Study by Charles Dudley Warner
IN llarpers Magazine for March.