A Mutual Aid Society by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1905

A Mutual Aid Society

By F. G.

THE Educational Department of the REVIEW should do something more for our schools than simply to enunciate the principles of Christian education. These are, of course, of prime importance, and there can be no effective work done without a thorough understanding of them. A constant discussion of these principles is necessary to their understanding, but we need also to have the principles applied before we can fully understand them, or at least before they are of any practical benefit. So we believe that more attention should be given to the consideration of the practical application of the principles of Christian education. To this end it seems that a union of effort in the nature of a mutual aid society might be most beneficial.

We have several hundred teachers who have been and are wrestling with the problems which the principles of Christian education present, and who have worked out to quite an extent a successful solution. We shall be pleased to present questions asked by those who feel a need of help in a definite direction, and the answers which others might give to these questions. Besides these questions and answers, many of the teachers could write short suggestive articles of a most helpful nature. In these articles the actual experience could be told. As an illustration of these articles, attention is called to the following selected articles: “A Model Garden” and “Maps.” Two other similar articles will appear later. Articles of similar nature and length which have a distinct bearing upon our peculiar problems will, it seems to us, be of much benefit. If all will be willing to give as well as to take, our whole educational work may resolve itself into “A Mutual Aid Society.”

F. G.