The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-06-13
What Is Christian Education Dcing
for the YOUNG.

The following paper was read in the
annual benevolent exercises at Selbys-
port NJ. E. church, June 9, 1907, as pre-
pared by Miss Matte Riley, one of the
competent young lady school teachers
of Garrett county, and requested to be
published in THE REPUBLICAN:
What Christian education is doing for
the young, may be summed up briefly
or may be expanded according TO the
amount Of oratory the speaker may be
capable of putting into it.
In either phase Of the topic, we to-
day scarcely deem a young man or
young lady thoroughly educated unless
they have Christian education. That
is to say, they should have acquired a
knowledge of the true Christ and be
firm believers in the same. 1t is only
too evident that we sometimes meet
college graduates who are reckless,
thoughtless and immoral in the most
remote sense. To such young persons
their education, which no doubt has cost
fond parent years of toll and drudg-
cry, is only means of leading them
still farther away. They assume the
thought that because they are highly
educated their education will served as a
support to their weak character. How
easily the assumption might be true if
the education possessed were only a
Christian education.
AS to what Christian education will
do for the young may be told in few
words.
Briefly, it will do everything if right
ly applied. twill help the young start
ing out in life to fight life's battles,
solve ife's mysteries and overcome
any or all difficulties.
The boy and girl who possess a true
Christian education can safely enter
into the labors of their chosen profess
sion, for they have the promised
thought always in view, IF God be for
US, who can be against US" They
need not fear friend nor foe for their
own conscience audibly say to them,
thou art safe.
What Christian education is doing
for the young may also be clearly dem
onstraten by referring to the missionary
fields Of China. India, Japan and Africa.
The thousands of native youth that are
being raised from the pits of degrade
ton and ignorance by our missionaries,
are receiving a Christian education and
are themselves coming to the front COM
petent and willing to take their places
among the Christianized educated and
are doing perhaps as much accordingly
for their own native people as are our
American missionaries. This shows
that our missionaries have been given
a Christian education and are diffusing
the same among those with whom they
come in contact. They have taken up
life's work cheerfully and willingly
looking forward to the promised crown
of righteousness as their reward 1t
is scarcely essential in this enlightened
age to state how Christian education
may be obtained. But to any of the
young who are sufficiently querulous,
we would simply say that the oppor-
tunities were never so great in the an
nails of history. Churches and chapels
are everywhere dotted over this beau
tiful land of ours. In all of these Sab
bath schools, Epworth Leagues, Young
Mems Christian Associations, Ladies'
Aid Societies and everything good is
being organized add conducted in a
purely spiritual manner for the benefit
and instruction for the young. There
fore, all that is necessary for a person
to secure Christian education, is the
earnest applicationsof self to the study
of Gods word and the the teachings Of
the same by His people.