The Newark journal., 1910-11-11

cause child is human it must of necessity be turned over to tke powers of evil, and be allowed to run the course and SOW its wild oats, IS an insult to God, and a cowardly shirking of responsibil- ity. Why not from the beginning surround the child with the thought of God, and a holy atmos- pherel
 Next to the Christian home in training child and making the ideal man, is the Christian school. Some one has said that the major
 promise of all religious education is the development of the whole
 man. It is this that the Christian school must accomplish, if 1t real izes the purpose for which 1t ex- ists. While its distinctive aim is commonly thought to be, so far as religious instruction is concerned, the training simply of the spirit
 ual nature, 1t is nevertheless true that the life in Christian College should lead the student to develop uniformly all departments of his
 being. 1t should furnish him lofty ideals and exalted inspir- ation in the threefold life that he lives. He should rejoice in inno- cent games on the playgrounds, in exercises of the classroom and de- batting societies, and in those of the Bible class and Prayer meet ing, as all being legimate sources of strength and power.
 The Christian ideal should per- meat and include his entire school life, and all that he does should enter essentially in making up of his religious experiences and es- tablishing him in true Holiness.
 First, we will consider his spir- itual development. Perhaps if I were to arrange this in strictly elimatical order, this phase of Christian education should be re- served for the last, but 1 believe in the view point of the Great Teacher, heart education is the basis, the foundation, the solid granite, on which the other struct- ure should be built. Solomon says: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. 2 The work of Holiness college is to first introduce it's pupils to Christ, who will forgive their actual sins and cleanse away their bent to sin ming, filling them with the Holy spirit, and develops it's pupils in Christian living A school may uphold its religion in it's class room, in its management, and in it's praymeeting, and be ever so tenacious of orthodox teaching, and yet be nursery of deceit and hypocricy. This should be mat ter to engage the most earnest and intelligent thought of the author ities of every Christian school The administrative officers aud faculty should study the problem of Christian life of student body as carefully as that of the curri- culum or requirments for entrance and graduation. The spirit for Christian living should be char acteristic to the entire life of the college. The Holy Spirit should 1 be so felt in the place until it would be as the sunlight that falls caressingly upon the mountain top and the meadow, and that slips silently into the hooks and | corners, and Chat glides in at door, ways, and through windows. and E that steals in through the cracks and roof. This Christian spirit should fill the whole Christian life of the school, even as the sweet perfume fills the garden of roses. It should be so vital a thing in the hearts of the college family, as to be the source of living flow of character that refreshes and en-