The Educational Magazine by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 19, 1909

The Educational Magazine

By F. G.

The new magazine, to be entitled Christian Education, is one in which all our educational workers should especially interest themselves. We plan to make it thoroughly practical and helpful to teachers in their schoolroom work. And it is not only to be for teachers as such, but for parents as well.

There is no subject in which we should be more interested than in the education of our children and youth. It is the work that lies next to our church-members. As an aid in this work, the new magazine should be in every home. The heaviest responsibility in all matters of education naturally rests upon those who are directly engaged in educational work. Our teachers should take an interest in placing this magazine in the homes of our people, where it will become the forerunner of many new primary schools. An effort should also be made to place the magazine in the hands of every teacher in the land who is not of our faith.

Much interest exists at the present time in the question of Christian education. A great deal is being said against the non-Christian character of the public school. While we believe that religion should not be taught in the public school, yet this general agitation gives us an opportunity properly to set before those who are thinking about educational matters the true principles of Christian education. These principles are most closely interwoven with those of the gospel, and through these principles many may become deeply interested in the gospel message for this time. Will not all our people, whether educational workers or not, take an especial interest in building up the work of this magazine? F. G.