Note and Comment by C. E. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 14, 1910

Note and Comment

By C. E. H.

Support of Church-Schools

THE Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at their meeting in Chicago, Ill., May 9, 1910, adopted the following regarding Christian education:—

It is our opinion that our church has now no more imperative and important duty than the generous care of our Christian colleges, in the giving of funds for current expenses and for permanent endowments. We can not possibly hope to raise up an adequate force of lay and ministerial leaders for our work unless these colleges are supported with enthusiasm and liberality. Within the next decade our people should pour millions of dollars into the treasuries of our higher institutions of learning. These institutions should remain absolutely loyal to the church which has given them founding and maintenance; while the church, on its part, should recognize the increasing obligation to support them so that they may do honest work educationally, and may maintain the broadest and deepest spiritual life. We call upon our district superintendents, our pastors, and members everywhere to take an eager part in every campaign to aid our splendid colleges, in the sure conviction that without these training-places our church and the kingdom of God would suffer irreparable loss.

The Methodist Church is one of the oldest religious denominations of the United States. It has many institutions of learning. But it realizes that the need of loyal instructors is more imperative and important now than ever before. This plea by the Methodist bishops seems to imply that because of other interests the church is failing properly to nourish its educational offspring. Events of the past few years show good reasons for a call to more strict surveillance of training-schools for the youth. The last days are to develop a class of persons who will be unholy, truce-breakers, traitors, heady, and high-minded. 2 Tim. 3:2-4. Educational centers produce a large number of this class. All this emphasizes the need of Seventh-day Adventists giving loyal support to the schools which they have established. In these schools, and in the work they may do in training the youth to carry this message to earth's remotest bounds, lies the hope of our work for the future.

C. E. H.