Arizona republican., 1920-08-16
EDUCATION AND EVANGELISM |S
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 The following sermon was given by ! the Rev. E. D. Raley at the morning services yesterday at the First NJ. E, Church:
 Education and Evangelism i I-From the Bible:
 Rabbi, we know thou art a teacher sent from God"
 The teacher is come and calleth for thee"
 And the child Jesus grew and in creased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man."
 Teach these precepts and these laws to thy children and to thy childrens children"
 Study to show myself approved of God rightly dividing the word of truth
 From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures
 When was a child | spake as a child. thought as a child, l felt as child"
 And she brought him unto the
 Train up a child in the way he should go."
 Do not send them away. but cause them to sit down and-give ye them to eat"
 Take this child and nurse it (nur. ture, train. educate) and I will give thee thy wages" 1I-Education:
 What is education? This is an old question There are many answers Huxley, Spencer, Kant and many others before and since have attempt ed an answer. Here is one I heard for the first time last week in the Los An geles university: He is educated who knows the forces of life, their laws and lives in harmony with them.''
 like this and will try and live up to it.
 If this definition is carefully worked out. it will give some of us a different notion of education.
 It is important to ask. then, who is educated?
 Many who have a degree are not living in harmony with the laws of life. The story of a man who knew more than most men along book lines but who was dope fiend and vile brute illustrates. He is still living, in Boston. Also the story of a negro mammy who could not write but who was the best known and best loved womanssi in the entire county. She was the best cook and the best church member and a benefactor to the community A class recently graduated from a university testified that in all their school work they had never been told anything about morals. honesty, citizenship. re- lationships to country. home, God. Clear visioned leaders in the educa- tional world are saying that some very vital changes must be made in the ed ucational system.
 It is not always the ignorant who is the menace to our institutions There are many educated men today leading in the attacks upon our government, FI<.~- Il. &->l. There is something rotten in a sys- tenn that will turn out traitors and in fidels and wild destroyers of every thing worth while.
 Lyman Abbott once wrote an edito- rial in the "Outlool1'' entitled What do you think. what do you know and what can you do?"
 It is more important that we help our young along these three lines than teaching them when the Battle of the Wilderness took place.
 We hear much about liberty and op- pression. freedom and slavery. rights and tyranny. Most of it is piffle and bunk. No man has any rights or any liberty or any freedom that he or some one else does not work for and fight for and give for.
 Should not education clear up these matters for our boys and girls?
 We are hearing much about Ameri- canization. Much of it is social twad- dle. At the same time. it is true that we all need a course in real American ization
 To know the forces of life their laws and live in harmony with them All laws of life are Gods laws and all knowledge of these laws should lead to the knowledge of God.
 III-Religious Education.
 Religious education is older than history. It began with the race. All people are religious. It is taught them. All religions are propagated by educa- tion. Look up Zoroastrinanism, Brah- manism. Buddhism, Mohammedanism. buddhism.
 gated by teaching. Christ was the mas ter teacher. He always taught. Tn pro- portion as the doctrines of Christiani- ty have been we'll taught, Christianity has progressed.
 The church must face the challenge as to the welfare of this nation along religious lines.
 Are we Christian nation? Of 110.- 000000 people, there are 56,000. 900 children; S,000,0 are in the Catholic church. 1.60O.O00 are in the Jewish church. and 12,000, 900 are in the Prot estant churches. Thus 36000,000 are not in any churches. What about them.
 The church must do better than 1t has with what it has and must also make a program that will bring re-
 
 The week day religious educational program" and the vocational pro- gram" now being adopted in so many communities must be given a trial in Arizona.
 If we fail to train up our children in the right way, other forces will train them in the wrong way.
 Dr. Hills preached great sermon in Boston the other day on the sub iect: Has the nation lost her soul?" Our hope is at this point in the church.
 IV.-Evangelism
 Evangelism is religious education, and religious education is evangelism If we can get this clear it will help us to go to work in a sane manner Evan gelism through knowledge and person al contact with evangelized men and women
 The coming plan for the churches belonging to federal council is along this line. A great meeting the other day gave us the program.
 SELFISH AMBITION
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