A GREAT NEED IN EDUCATION.
Dr. Arthur T. Hadley, President of Yale University, tells us of a need in education, in the Outlook of August 3. Thus concludes his article:— Now as never before there is a need for schools which shall give to their boys the habit of valuing what is permanent as distinguished from what is transient. It is not necessary that their course should be classical in the narrow sense, but classical it must be in the broad sense, in laying stress on those things which have impressed themselves upon the world's experience as distinguished from those which are merely ephemeral. It is not necessary that their training should be predominantly religious in the sense of laying undue tension on any theological doctrine or any series of outward observations; but religious it must be in the sense that it teaches them from one day's end to the other to regard life as a trust held for the benefit of the community, and exercised with that regard for one's fellow-men which is the mark alike of the gentleman and the Christian. Thus shall we build up a race of men whose money and whose knowledge shall be made subservient to the good of the people. This is good all but one thing. When God's Word teaches the definite, decided doctrine, in loyalty let the youth be taught to follow. To help his fellow-man, to know truly how to enter into his sympathies, one must know God and His Word. This knowledge of God and His Word, this loyalty to doctrine and precept, was what made Daniel and his fellows what they were. Religion is necessary, but it must be of no namby-pamby, milk-and-water sort. Men who are saviours of humanity must be vitally connected with a divine Saviour. He who would distinguish between the ephemeral and eternal must see them in the seeing of God. All education short of this, whatever may be its seeming success, will prove an eternal failure.