Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 20, 1916

A RECENT number of the Southern Churchman contains this truthful statement regarding the family pew and the influence which has attended it:—

“One sometimes hears a deal of nonsense about the danger of creating a prejudice against religion in the mind of a child by making him attend church once a week. The danger would seem to be about one tenth as great as that of arousing a prejudice against education by sending him to school twice a day. In both cases the remedy lies in the good sense of the parents, and their estimate of the value of religion and education carefully instilled into the child’s mind. The strength of the church has been in the old-fashioned family pew, with father at one end and mother at the other, and a stairway of more or less restless children between. From that pew have gone out the upright, devout, consecrated men and women who have loved the church and maintained her worship and done her work in their several generations. But for the sake of the church, and especially for the sake of the children, let it be restored.”