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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 1, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 38.

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Need for Religion

CHILD study is now reduced to the most unemotional of the sciences.
The modern pedagogical expert betrays no more feeling when he analyzes the mind of a child than does a vivisectionist when he cuts open a cat.
His statistics are as cold as a table of logarithms; his diagrams are as soulless as the plates in a text-book of physiology.
No doubt there are valuable deductions to be made from such acute inquiries, but the theory that a child's spiritual nature can be developed with the same scientific certainty that one can train his mind, and by the use of identical processes, finds no confirmation in actual experience.
The character of a boy is safer in the hands of an intellectually deficient instructor who could not distinguish pedagogy from landscape gardening, but who loves God with all his heart, than in the hands of an expert psychologist who thinks God an unnecessary embarrassment to an educational process.—George P. Echman, D.D., in 'Christian Advocate.'