J. ARMSTRONG RELIGIOUS EOUCAnON Any system of education that has not included in its curriculum a study of the world's most wonderful book is incomplete. A better definition of education ca nnot be had than to ca ll it an org.,ni7.ltion of the acquired habits of life and the adjustment to the spiritual possessions of a race-learning to live. In this twent ieth century. ce rtainl y no o ne will h.we the audacity to doubt the fact that the influence of Chr istia nit y has been the saving power of the American nati on. There is no way to conserve this rich inherit.lnce of Christian faith on which the per petuity of our social life depends. nor to make dominant in our civic relationships the spirit of our Saviour unless there is a conjoining of educational system with the principles of Christianity. Unless the principles laid down by the Prince of Peace arc put into the minds of the youth of our land. we too will fall into decadence and ruin and be counted among the nations that have forgotten God. Civil law forbids the tcaching of the Bible in public sc hoo ls. for instruction in matters religious? To whom then sh.l ll we turn Some h.1\'e presumed that the teaching might bc relegated to the home. We diatcly that this is mere presumption and in this pMticular age an impossibility. women have secured equa l rights. Both ha\'e become brcad winners for the home. drifted Llr from the age of the p.llriarchs and home training. see immeMen and We have Sowing the "seed of the Kingdom" can be most effectively done in such schools as Harding College. Here the Bible is taught daily. Thank God for the great and good men that h,we gone on before. men who saw the necessity of Christian educ;ltion and who re.lli7ed th.lt it could be h.ld only ,1<} .1 result of daily Bible teaching.
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