Christian Education

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jul 2, 1908

Christian Education

WE can not too highly appreciate that education which qualifies men to live well here and to live in the hereafter. The principles which underlie such an education are divine. It leads not to a trust in human wisdom or to a pride of superior intellect, but rather to a spirit of humble service. Our Divine Master was most highly educated, and yet he did not meet the popular standards of the day, and was considered unlearned. Those who ranked him as such were obliged, however, to confess the wonderful power of his teachings. He had developed all the faculties of his being in a natural manner. Certain elements were not overgrown and others dwarfed, but all the faculties of his mind, body, and soul were in perfect balance. It was this education that gave him such a power and authority in his teaching. He took a reasonable time to receive it. He prepared himself thoroughly for his life work.

Christ connected with himself men who were willing to be humble learners in his school. His skilful hand aroused their dormant faculties. The enthusiasm of his love inspired them. There are to-day scores, hundreds, and even thousands of our young men and women who are awaiting the touch of a similar skilful hand to prepare them for a great work. What an opportunity is given the Christian teacher! His field of teaching is as broad as the work of creation. When he feels, and thus leads his students to feel, that they are indebted to God for all the talents which he has given them, and that they owe it to him to develop and improve upon these talents, they naturally meet the full meaning of the term “Christian education.”