yet sublime words recorded in the book o f Genesis: “ In the begin ning God created.” The Bible is not a book o f science, although wherever the two meet, the Bible has never yet been disproved. You laugh aside the thought that God could create the earth in seven days, calling it a “ myth or legend.” My child, on hearing you say that replied (in her own mind, o f cou rse), “ But with God, nothing is impossible.” The faith o f a little child! A “ day” in Scripture does not always refer to a 24-hour period, but can and does in a number o f places refer to an extended peri od o f time. The Apostle Peter says, “ a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.” As long as God is God (and He is not dead as some would have us believe), why does it test your credulity to believe that the creation o f the earth and the starry galaxies was but a simple matter fo r Him? O f course, you cannot believe that i f you don’t have a true understanding and conception o f God. I ask you, my young child’s teacher, please be fa ir and do not deride the faith in the Book o f books that my child possesses. You do not have to believe it, nor in my child’s Heavenly Father, but fo r her parents’ sake and fo r the child we trust that God will make her to be, please be fair. Evolution is a theory and all you have to say to your young “ impressionables” is that “ some people” believe this way as to the creation o f the world and man. Others believe what the Bible teaches, that God created the world and man. This is objective teaching which I’m sure that you as a good teacher would encour age. Thank you fo r taking the time to read this. I ’m sorry I can’t sign my name fo r my child would be embarrassed to tears. I know that you will understand. Sincerely and gratefully yours, U n d / s y iX c te td ts d s j O*&A j C^ la 7 * HD
Y ou have a calling, a high call ing — that o f teaching, o f implanting ideas and thoughts in to tender young minds. You are a good teacher. My child comes home daily telling us how you teach, what you say, and the way in which you say it. These are impressive years fo r our children, years in which the seed thoughts implanted by you and others will shape their thinking in years to come. Teaching is something like be ing a potter. The potter forms the clay into a beautiful vessel under his skillful hands, molding it, shaping it as he desires on the swiftly-moving wheel. I wonder i f you have ever read in the great est literature o f all time, the Bi ble, the story o f the potter and the clay? You will find this verse in the Isaiah 6 4 :8 : “ But now, 0 Lord, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our Pot te r ; and we all are the work o f Thy hand.” Y our responsibility is great. Oh, I know that you are only a part in the over-all development o f our young impressionable child but you are a vital part. However, I understand from my child that you believe the Bi ble to be simply a myth or legend, a fanciful fa iry tale! I am sorry that you do, but you are free to believe as you wish. As it is easy fo r the potter to manipulate his fingers so as to change the shape o f the vessel he is molding, so it is relatively sim ple fo r a teacher to keep implant ing ideas o f her own into these young impressionable minds that look with awe to their teacher.
Little by little, line upon line, the shape begins to change. In today’s uncertain world, a world filled with fears and frus trations, a world that has more than its share o f people with “ no moorings,” casting about fo r a safe harbor, there is a vital need fo r a relevant faith— a faith that is sure and steadfast, a faith that anchors people and makes them solid, stable citizens. Faith is an inborn quality o f the young. It is only as one grows older that doubts begin to arise and people become “ faith-less.” However, i f you would think the matter through, soon you would realize that it is impossible to live without a modicum o f faith. My child has faith. My child believes in her Mommy and her Daddy. We would be unhappy parents i f she did not. But more than that, my child has faith in God, in His Son, Jesus Christ, as the message has been taught her at home, in Sunday school, and in church. She has faith that the Bible is God’s Word, and that it is true fo r it comes from a God who is true. She believes that God talks to man today through His Word, the Bible. You may believe that man is a creature o f evolution and over the millions or billions (no one seems to be quite sure) o f years o f time he emerged from a little one- celled amoeba until he stands up right today, reaching f o r the moon. Frankly, it takes more credulity fo r me to believe some thing like that, which is still theory and not fact, as any hon est scientist will readily admit, than it does to believe the simple,
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