New Britain herald., 1930-09-15

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 REV. WILLIAM H. BARsCH ous. Our people ought. to take this matter of Christian education to heart and support it with liberal generosity as we have never known it before. -;
 Let us earnestly note also these discriminating words from Dr. J. J. Tigert, the highly honored United States commissioner of education. We have got to do something to de- velop character in our educational system. We have wisely separated the function of church and state, but in avoiding the Scylla of political in reference with religion we have steered upon Charybdis of state education without religion. It is doubtful If we can introduce re- ligious instruction in the public school without interfering with re- ligious freedom, but we must find a way to produce character effect ively.'
 Let the contention be made for Christian education that such edu- cation is grounded in Christ's au- thority and teaching. In the method of Jesus, preaching and teaching went hand in hand. He was more frequently called teacher than any, thing else. The absolute necessity for Christian education in carrying out Chrlst's great commission is over whelmngly attested by our entire denominational history. Christianity has been the mother of all modern education. Well did President Will son say: Scholarship has never, SC far as l can recall, been associated with any religion, except the religion of Jesus Christ
 The chief work of Carey in India was that of Bible translation. Jud- son became a Baptist by reading the Greek New Testament. Luther Rice gave his mighty strength to the establishment of Columbia Univer- sity for the special training of work CTS for the worldwide mission work. Practically every one of our denom- national schools has come in re- sponse to the poignant need for bet ter trained preachers and Christian workers.
 "Of the first 119 colleges built in America east of the Mississippi river, 104 were built for religious needs. Take Harvard university. Its very name commemorates the life and sacrifcial labors of a preacher, John Harvard. He lived but a little while in America but he gave his library and half his estate to the founding of the institution that bears his honored name. Over the gateway of this world-famed in- stitution of learning you still read | these words: That a learned minis ! try may not perish from the earth. The heroic service of men who came, from. Christian schools has reach a worldwide fame. The xecord | of leadership furnished by these schools is to the last degree revela- tory and challenging. Eight of our country's chief justices were col lege graduates, seven of these were 1 from Christian schools. Eighteen of our nations presidents are college graduates, 16 of these were from | Christian colleges Eighteen of the 25 masters of American letters were college mon, while IT of the IS were from Christian colleges. Of | the members of our national con- gress, whose efforts or prominence l have secured them a place in Who's | Who, two-thirds os them were graduates of Christian colleges. Keep on looking into this deeply significant matter and you will find that numbers of small Christian colleges in our country have fur nished many times the number of leaders furnished by state and pri- vately controlled institutions. This 1 stands out as one of the most re- vealing and challenging facts in the world of Christian education.
 We are called upon to put a soul into this years religious train ming. This cannot be done Without cooperation from parent. teacher, and child. Daniel Webster spoke faithfully when he said: To pre- serve the government, we must pre- serve morals. Morality rests on re- ligion. If we destroy the foundation, l the superstructure must fall We destroy the foundation by being negligent and indifferent whether our youth of this season attends religious instruction.
 Carlyle spoke correctly when he declared that religion is the deter mining factor of any countrys civil ization, Africa made more progress in a dozen years under the Chris tian leadership of Livingstone than | it had made in a thousand years before. Surely all discerning minds must now discern that irreligion is | the worlds supreme peril, that dis obedience to God is the way of de- feat decay, and death. It is not surprising therefore that NMcCauley wrote: Whoever does anything to l deDracata pitv icfpl1i1tv of