The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-29

see, no misad VentureS by the way
could keep the great Apostle from
telling al the center of Rome the story
of a Greater than Caesar.
Learning Life's Lessons.
Terse Comments on Uniform Prayer
Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies Societies Christian Endeavor,
ete.-for October 1: The Consecra-
ton of School Life. Proverbs
Alb.
Not lessons. but life, are to be
learned in school. All the studies are
but means to an end, and that end is
character. Aside from the three RS
there is precious little in the way of
actual knowledge that we carry with
us from the school room into the busy
world. But school teaches us which
way to look, how to think and how to
get along with people. The great les
sons may all be learned in school days,
the lessons that affect character for
ever.
Soldiers and saints and heroes are
made in the schools of the world. THE
/ battle of Waterloo was won on the
! football fields of Rugby said the
Duke of Wellington. Student days are
! unreasonable days. The ideals then
/ fixed determine life. Most of us are
using the characters that We're deter
mined when we were at school.
We too seldom sing the praises of
that potent leader of the race. to
whom our country owes more than 1t
can ever repay, the public school
teacher. She has done more to make
| us what we are as a people than all
our legislators. The fires of patriot
ism and nobility which she has lighted
or tended have been the nations
| beacons. Because she has been Chris
tan and an idealist and self-sa crificing
| and iberty-loving, our country stands
steady and strong today. Christian En-
deavor honors the school teachers. at
this opening of another school year.
School room religion easily and
naturally becomes working-world re-
| ligion. They who are true to Christ
amid their schoolmates are not likely
to fail Him among men.
Within the past ten years leaders
in Christian education have come to
the conclusion that a students ideals
and character are not determined in
college, but in the High School. The
boy who does not become a Christian
before he enters college. is likely to
be SCARED and hard to win. SO there
is now great concentration of the eff
fort upon students of the High School
age. In this. the best workers are,
One consecrated boy girl can do
more for school than a visiting evan
gelist.
Good work in the classroom and
on the athletic field may be as sacred
and acceptable offering to God as
the blood of bulls and goats under
!. the old dispensation.
, If Christianity caanot be practiced
/ SChOOlrOOm no
ticed anywhere.
: When she was a girl. Frances Rid
ley Havergal found herself the only
processing Christian in a boarding
school. Timid, she thought to conceal
. her faith. Then the truth came te
; her: You are the only representa-
tive that Christ has in all this school
= How important that you bear true
, witness to Him." She did and as a
! result saw many of her schoolmate;
: converted.
The sort of Christians who promot.
7 religion in school are not Immature
preachers or self-conscious martyrs
! but natural. wholesome Young neonIe
' to whom Jesus Christ is real, and tn,
$ complement of their life. They revea
( the winsomeness of their Master 10,
e they are good advertisements of Him
q In the great school of life tn,
r Christian textbook is the Bible. From
it we learn the precepts of the great
n est Teacher of all ages. Studying i
t daily, with prayer and conservation
e we cannot fail to receive of His shirt
: and become witnesses for Him.
Living your school life with Chris
does not mean a less enjoyable time
" but the most glorious happiness al
: the ume.-Amos r. Wells
The feelings, are to be disciplined
= ! the passions are to be restrained: tru
u and worthy motives are to he in
spired: profound religious feeling /
!; to be instilled. and pure morality in
culcated under all circumstances Al
this is comprised in education.-Dan
iel Webster.
d The real object of education is +
& give children resources that will en-
: dure as long as life endures.-Edwar
[ Everett.