The Need of Church-School Teachers
By F. G.
FROM nearly every union conference there comes an imploring call for church-school teachers. One union conference secretary says that he should have fifteen more than he now has to meet the urgent demands. This need must be supplied. Our young people who are looking forward to the educational work must not feel that the church school work is not a high and important calling. There is no larger field of endeavor in the line of teaching than molding and educating the mind of the child. The world's greatest educators have ever emphasized this. Froebel's maxim, “Come let us live with our children,” expresses the sentiment of all the greatest teachers of all time. Christ himself emphasized the importance of the teaching of the children. Our church schools must be placed on vantage ground. They must be given facilities that will command the highest respect from all. They must be supplied with teachers of learning, culture, and high spirituality. We should have scores, yes, hundreds, of men and women who have completed college courses in charge of these schools. They should enter upon this work as a life work. Our church schools have a very important part to play in the saving of our children, and we cannot emphasize too highly the value of a sufficient number of well-educated men and women who are consecrated to this work. Let our church school work prosper.