T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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In the nature of things the majority rules unless undue and unjust pressure is brought to bear by the minority. So any secular institution must inevi tably tend to secularize the whole body. A few Christian people within a secu lar organization can no more Christian ize the whole body than the good spot in an apple can redeem the rotten por tion of that apple. The whole will be come rotten because of a rotten spot, hut the process never works the other way. The only way, therefore, to Chris tianize is for the Christianizing agent, .whether school or church, to keep it self purely and wholly Christian and draw the people out of the world to Christ through the Holy Spirit one by one, and never to be yoked up with the world. To be yoked in a Christian ef fort with unbelievers at all, is to be unequally yoked, because the unbe lievers are always in the majority. A Christian School Society in con nection with establishing a Christian High School in Chicago made the fol lowing statement: “ As long as the nation is not a unit in its religious be liefs, no clearly defined Christian in struction will be found in the nation’s schools. The only solution is that those who are like minded in matters reli gious band themselves together and as Christian people establish schools . . . whose principles and ideals are identi cal to those principles and ideals of our early schools and whose curriculum is such that it fits the child for modem life.” We agree to the above state ment, and wfi are convinced that any thinking Christian must agree that there is no other way to give the youth proper and effectual Christian train* ing. Therefore, the only adequate way to improve the great opportunity now presented to us is for Christian parents to accept the responsibility of child training which God from the beginning ' has placed upon them and organize themselves in order to discharge this
THE LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION u i y nHTS is the name of a society IP" jiB which has lately been organ- p j&pla ized in Los Angeles by Rev. W&t.E sin D. W. Beverly, who has had laid upon his heart the burning need for schools, especially of grammar and high school grades, for the Christian education of our children. Ip view of the fact that the Bible is not only excluded from our public schools, but is in very many instances openly derided and denied, the need for institutions where the youth of our land may receive an adequate education without being subjected to the exceed ingly detrimental influences—moral, so cial and spiritual, which now so largely prevail in the public schools^—we com mend this movement as well worthy of imitation. The following statement submitted by Mr. Beverly gives some in teresting facts concerning the inception and purpose of the Society: “ If present Christian institutions were doing or could perform the great task of properly educating the child the tide of paganism would not be sweep ing the youth of the churches into its dreadful current as it is today. The Sunday School, Vacation and Co-oper ative Church Schools can do some good, but they can never turn the streams of youth back to the Book because they do not have the child long enough at a time; the attendance is voluntary, so that it is practically impossible to exer cise proper discipline and to incorporate thorough-going instruction that will re quire real work on the part of the pupil, and because the Christian influence em anating from such schools cannot be sufficiently constant. An attempt to Christianize public schools would be futile because of the diverse religious views held by Cath olics, Jews, Protestants and others, and because it is unconstitutional for state institutions to enter the field of religion.
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