July 1928
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Many of our graduates are testifying to the value of our course, not only in work in Sunday schools in the home land, but especially in handling groups upon the foreign mission field. Such courses are practically new in Bible
controlling a group of young people in order to secure attention and hold interest. Such an equipment, linked to a Spirit-filled life and a soul-love for childhood, will enable one to train up souls into -a knowledge of the truth as it is
institutes, but we must face the need and give our c o m i n g leaders such training in the spiritual atmosphere pe culiar to Bible insti tutes. There has been much criticism of •the instruction g i.v e n in some institutions. Does it not devolve u p o n Bible institutes to pro vide the right kind- u f training ? Remember that some of the practical train ing of our Christian Education Course can be obtained through o u r Correspondence' School by those who cannot attend the Insti tute. We would call special attention to this month’s advertisement of t h e s e correspon dence courses.
in Christ—a knowledge that will be glorified not merely by its enter tainment, but by its use in a life of definite ser vice. Emerson once wrote his daughter that he cared little concerning the name of the school she attended, but he cared much concerning the teachers with whom she studied. He had seen what we all should c o m e to see, that a school is but a place where life touches life,: but that teaching is, the conscious act of the t r a i n e d spirit of a teacher influencing the less trained spirit of the pupil to the end that the pupil may come into possession of truth. To inform is one thing: to enrich the soul is another. If there is one thing above another a teacher in a Sunday school is expected to
Need We Shun th e Word Philosophy? “Beware lest any man spoil you, through philosophy and vain, der ceit” (Col. 2:8)..:; S OME time ago T h e K ing ’ s B u sin ess carried an article on “The Christian Philoso pher.” It did not take the editors long to discover that in the minds of some people the words “Christian” and “philosopher” cannot be linked. They regard the very use of the word “phil osopher” as an indication of modernistic tendencies. It is true that the word oc curs but once in the New Testa ment and then as a warning against materialistic and deceiv ing modes of thinking. A more l i t e r a l translation, however, makes it clear that philosophy is not necessarily dangerous. The warning is against “the philoso phy which is empty.” There is a Christian philosophy. The word is said to have originated in the humility of Pythagoras (600 B. C.), who declined the title of “wise one,” preferring to be called “lover of wisdom” (philosophos). It has come to be associated with sub-
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do, it is to know how to enrich the soul— to occasion right thought, secure right feeling, bring about right action. How many Sunday-school teachers- sense the seriousness of their task? Our Master was a Teacher of souls, not merely intellects. He directed His appeal pri marily to the will; He saw that the soul is reached only when the will is moved to act. “Every one who heareth these sayings of mine, and, doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man.” The great need of our Sun day schools is for teachers after this divine pattern—w h o s e teaching (the product of a Spirit-filled life, a knowledge of the Word of God and effi cient methods) will appeal to the wills -of our young people and move them to noble, Christ- like living. To the accomplishment of this the teachers of the Chris tian Education Course of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles h a v e devoted much thought, prayer and constructive effort.
What heroes from the woodland sprung, When, through the fresh awakened land, The thrilling cry of freedom rung, And to the work of warfare strung The yeoman’s iron hand!. Hills flung the cry to hills around, And ocean-mart replied to mart, And streams, whose springs were yet unfound, Pealed far away the startling sound Into the forest’s heart. Then marched the brave from rocky steep, From mountain river swift and cold; The borders of the stormy deep, The vales where gathered waters sleep, Sent up the.strong and bold,-fe'L As if the very earth again Grew quick with God’s creating breath, And, from the sods of grove and glen, Rose ranks of lion-hearted men To battle to the death. Already had the strife begun; Already blood on Concord’s plain Along the springing grass had run, And blood had flowed at Lexington, Like brooks of April rain. That death-stain on the vernal sward Hallowed to freedom all the shore; In fragments fell the yoke abhorred— The footsteps of a foreign lord Profaned the soil no more.
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