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AN ESSAY
A Plea for Christian Education
By A. CONSTANTINE ADAMS. B. D..
Congregational Minister
Of all blessings which it has
pleased providence to allow us to cul
tivate, there is not one which
breathes a purer fragrance, or bears
a more heavenly aspect than educa
tion. It is companion which no mis
fortune can depress, no crime de
stroy, no enemy alienate or despotism
enslave. At home it's a friend, abroad
an introduction, in solitude a solace,
and in society an ornament. It
chastens vice, guides virtue, and gives
at once a grace and government to
genius. So important is it that we
develop our intellects, that failure
to do so results in self-annihilation,
e g Africa, China, Mexico, Russia,
Central and South America, among
which superstition, filth, rags, mur
der, blood-shed, rebellion, and flag
rant vice are rampant, to say nothing
of their transportation, commercial
and industrial conditions, which in
deed is pathetic, and moves one to
say within himself, that the greatest
need of our time is to lift the veil
of ignorance from off the eyes of
these benighted peoples, and thus
give them a chance at life. These
same countries touched by the en
lightened hand of knowledge have re
peatedly shown .their capacity for
emerging into anew and better or
der. The status of womanhood is
becoming increasingly favorable, evi
denced by the fact that women’s
schools and colleges are multiplying
rapidly, and schools which less than
a decade ago would not even permit
women to matriculate now grant
them the privilege of leadership:
slavery has for the most part become
a thing of the past; superstition has
less power over the people; polligamy
is doompd; and their industrial and
commercial advances have in many
instances been a marvel to North
America. Their state is becoming a
parellel to the prophet’s city of vis
ion, “waters are breaking out in the
wilderness, and streams in the des
ert,” and many of their thirsty lands
.have become pools of water.
But secular education within itself
is not enough; the evils that afflict
humanity are subtle and deep seated
in the heart and life; what is needed
is something that will so shape and
direct the latent forces in man’s re
sponse to stimulus that it' will be as
tho he had been regenerated. It
must be more than mere outward
training. You may take a young
lion early enough and by education
and training you may make it be
come an apparently harmless and
gentle beast, but its nature is un
changed, it is a lion still, and the
taste of one drop of blood may
arouse all the sleeping instincts of
its savage nature. If America
doesn’t profit by the experiences of
the past, she is of all countries to
be pitied most. There must be a
recognition of God, and the prin.’i
p’es taught by Jesus Christ, unless
we are to suffer retrogression and
decay, e g look at the history of an
cient Greece and Rome who neglect
el to cultivate this phase of their so
cial structure; the culmination of
their arts, philosophy, poetry, paint
ing and sculpture, was the # date of
their decline and fall; their boastful
civilization was the sarcophagus of
their national greatness. The same
has been true of all nations and civil
izations which trusted in secular and
materialistic philosophy.
Christian education seeks to de
velop the entire man, physically, in
tellectually, socially and religiously;
like secular training, it gives man
the power to do wrong, but unlike
secular education in that it gives
man the moral force and will power
to restrain him from using that pow
er; it is that training process that
seeks to meet the demands of the
human race for its fullest respone
to law. beauty, human nature* and
the religious instinct. It is illus
trated something like this—two
steamers are storing coal for a voy
age; one sails away first with her
bunkers half full, and gets far upon
the bosom of the Mighty Deep; the
second, by remaining in port until
her bunkers are full, passes the first
at mid-ocean where her coal has given
out.
In the light of present world con
ditions, America should see the neces
sity of the right kind of training as
never before. Five million new white
crosses on the plains of Western
Europe; five million rough-fashioned
crosses down thru the marches of
Russia and Poland, the mountains of
Galacia and Greece, and the stretches
of Armenia and Mesopotamia. A
world bleeding and broken, with bil
lions worth of property destroyed,
with millions of virile men dead, with
other millions maimed for life, and
civilization everywhere menaced, is
a spectacular example of what the
wrong kind of education will do for
mankind. It is the index finger of
God, pointing thru this supreme les
son of history to man’s monumental
folly. Therefore let America be
ware, and remember, that timely re
ligious instruction is indispensable to
the right formation of character;
that no assurance of ending a life
aright is as important as the begin
ning of it aright; and that in order
for her to prevent national decay she
should pre-occupy the mind of the
rising generation with religious as
well as secular truth, for religious
truth is to the individual and to the
nation what sunlight is to our planet.
But how few realize this solemn
fact! Over society at large, degen
eration has swept like a mighty wave
of ruin. Law is weak in its strong
est arm, morality is at the cross
roads, politics are disjoined from pa
triotism, the world exhausted and be
wildered is powerless to do or to
plan. There is no self-adjusting or
purifying process.
If a nation’s greatness or safety
consists in a nation’s purity of char
acter our own United States can ill
afford not to sterilize the sources of
thought and feeling with Biblical
knowledge. If correct opinions,
sound morals, and real happiness are
the results of revealed religion, we
ought to connect religious instruction
v/ith secular education. Behold to
day some of the results of this dis
joined system of instruction; public
sentiment is lacking in moral tone
and principle is disregarded. Stu
dents boast of “putting it over” on
their instructors; that it is not wrong
to do evil if one can “get by” with
it; national legislators abandon the
interests of society in favor of per
sonal aggrandizement and our great
nation in its refusing to cooperate
with other countries in some form of
an international tribunal, has made
the greatest blunder in modern his
tory, fraught with distaster and
shame to our Christian civilization.
Such ominous conduct on the part
of a nation is but evidence that there
is needed reform, and that it must
get back to the fountain source. It
is like the bubbles rising on the top
of a river revealing decayed matter
below. The decay is the failure in
religious instruction.
It is in the name of religion that
religion has been taken out of the
public schools of this country.
Avowed infidels and secularists have
had little or nothing to do with it.
Christians have done this in the in
terest of their particular type of
Christianity. The practical exclu
sion of religion from the schools of
this country is fraught with danger.
This situation will imperil, in time,
the future of the nation itself. The
principle of the separation of church
and state is fundamental and prec
ious. But it must not be so con
strued as to render the state a fos
terer of non-religion or atheism. It
would seem to be necessary for the
State to afford to religion such
recognition as will help young peo
ple to appreciate the true place of
religion in human life. The leader
ship of our country is waking up to
this fact. April 4, 1924, a Jewish
Rabbi of New York was responsible
for a gathering of religious workers
coming from Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish communions. The point of
interest was the dire need of relig
ious education in the nation. It is
admited by most reformers that basic
reforms must come through religious
training, and that we shall never
have a warless world until the whole
world for a whole generation has
taught peace to its young people.
The same is true of other needed re
forms if they are to be adequately
inculcated in our American youth.
Doubtless you have been questioning
in your mind HOW Christian educa
tion may be given in our state schools
in spite of creedal differences. In a
country where denominationalism is
dominant, it would be advisable for
all the denominations to elect dele
gates, and meet in a general confer
ence and all agree upon a syllabus.
This syllabus should provide for the
teaching of the Bible from the first
grade in the grammar school through
the entire high school course, a com
pulsory course, and credited the
same as in other courses of instruc
tion: these credits being required for
promotion and graduation. The sub
ject should be dealt with in a psycho
logical method, adapting the various
courses to the child’s mind. The in
structors furnished by the several
denominations should be required to
complete a course in religious peda
gogy. and hold license to teach it,
and this license approved by the state
after having satisfactorily stood an
other examination by the state. Un
der maintenance would come first,
the question of where the instruction
is to be given. In cities all the Pro
testant churches might unite in erect
ing one or more buildings adequate
for the work. The salary for the
teachers, the expense of student
transportation, the text-books and
other supplies, may be paid by the
various churches cooperating, with
the number of students cared for by
each denomination as a basis for the
apportionment of expenses. In pio
neer sections and in most rural dis
tricts the community church plan
would work beautifully with the con
solidated schools, while in the uni
versities where the Bible would not
be compulsory, it would be an excel
lent idea to endow chairs of Bible.
The Presbyterian church has already
endowed a large number of chairs of
Biblical literature in state universi
ties. Also there are fifteen towns
and cities in the state of Rhode Is
land in which young people are ex
cused from the public schools for an
hour each week to attend religious
instruction in churches of their pa
rent’s choosing. The only other
city in New England (so far as we
now know) employing the same sys
tem is Bar Harbor, Maine, but plans
on foot now, contemplate the exten
sion of week-day religious instruc
tion to many other communities.
Onjy recently New York state at
tempted to adopt such a plan, but
failed, a cause attributing to the fail
ure was THEIR LACK OF TEACH
ERS PROPERLY TRAINED TO
CARRY ON THE WORK. This is
indicative of the general trend of the
times and therefore demands our se
rious consideration.
The inauguration of this new sys
tem of religious instruction in our
public schools of America, would re
sult in developing a higher moral
tone, the observance of law, an in
creased church membership based on
knowledge rather than a sensuous ap
peal to the emotions, a facilitation
of the financial burden by placing it
in a larger number of hands and the
giving of anew conception of Chris
tianity, tending to create in the
young people a consciousness that re
ligion IS an every day affair, rather
than something like a garment that is
put on or off according to one’s feel
ings. Further, instead of a compara
tively small number of men lead by
Roger W. Babson in the prosecution
of the “golden rule” in business, the
entire business world would be revo
lutionized and christianized, which
would ultimately result in the estab
lishment of universal brotherhood
and the peace of mankind. I know
of no other way by which we can, at
present, get at the sources and lay
the foundation for the peace and
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prosperity of the human family. For
we may sweep the world clean of
militarism, we may scrub the earth
white of autocracy, we may carpet it
with democracy and drape it with the
flags of republicanism; we may hang
on the walls the thrilline pictures of
freedom; hear the singing of Ameri
ca’s independence; behold here the
portrait of Joan of Arc, yonder the
Magna Charta, and on this side the
inspiring picture of Garabaldi; we
may spend effort and energy to make
the world a paradise itself, wherein
the lion of capitalism can lie down
with the proletariat lamb; but if we
turn into that splendid room, man
kind with the same old heart, deceit
ful. and desparately wicked, neglect
ing to inculcate the principles of
Christianity in the plastic minds of
the rising generations, our sun-kissed
prince of nations, whose pride it is,
will thrust the world between the
cold blue lips of death.
Therefore this prayer (author un-
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