Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns: An Educational Problem for Protestants

The Word of God is again laid aside, and man by his own power of reasoning draws conclusions contrary to the testimony of the Inspired Record. The theory of evolution is thus su...

Angels, beholding the wonders of the new creation, delighted to fly earthward; and two from the heavenly host, by special appointment, became the instructors of the holy ones. “...

The classics form the backbone of paganism, as _the Bible forms the basis of Christian education_. The classics are enduring, because they are the highest product of the human m...

“My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jer. 2:13.

What the Turk could not do by force of arms, he did in another way. In 1453 Constantinople fell into the hands of the calif, yet this did not affect the strength of the papal hi...

Nicodemus said: “How _can_ these things be?” He longed for proof, for demonstration. “_Proof_ is indeed the method of science, including theology; it has, no doubt, a function i...

Christ, when rejected by the world, did not withdraw entirely, and leave man to his fate; but He sent forth His Spirit, the _Spirit of Truth_ as an educator, leading minds into...

Charles W. Dabney, Jr., president of the University of Tennessee, in an address gave utterance to these words. “The Bible is the best text-book of education, as of many other sc...

The great and pressing need is for teachers who can execute the plan. No narrow mind will be equal to the task. Again, as a system of true education is approached, is seen the e...

Another noticeable fact is that release from bondage was always heralded by two reforms. For instance, before deliverance from Babylon, Daniel was raised up to give the people i...

Henry Bernard, a young lawyer of Connecticut, did for his State a work similar to that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. He was a man of keen insight, and struck at the root of m...

“The instruction of the Jesuits was conveyed wholly in the spirit of that enthusiastic devotion which had from the first so peculiarly characterized their order.” This had its e...

This is indeed the exaltation of reason. There is, in such a system, no room whatever for faith. W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, writing of Sunday-schools...

Murdock, in his notes, says: “Origen perversely turned a large part of Biblical history into moral fables and many of the laws into allegories. Probably he learned this in the s...

Man reaches this highest plane of existence only by faith. It requires constant self-denial and continual development. In reality it is living as seeing Him who is invisible. Th...

Draper describes the fanaticism of the monastic schools, and finally assigns a reason for the exclusion from them of the study of physiology and anatomy and the science of medic...

“In 1514 he was made doctor of philosophy, and then began to teach. He was seventeen years old. The grace and charm that he imparted to his lessons formed the most striking cont...

This decline is described in the following quotations taken from Painter, and they need no comment: “During the period extending from the middle of the sixteenth to the beginnin...

The object of the school, as held by the founders, is well described by a Boston citizen, who writes thus in 1643 to some of his friends: “After we had builded our houses, provi...

Error was rapidly creeping into the church, and it came principally through these schools, as has already been seen. However, truth was not abandoned for error without a struggl...

BUCKLEY, editor of _Christian Advocate_. BOONE, “Education in the United States.” BOK, editor of _Ladies’ Home Journal_. D’AUBIGNÉ, “History of the Reformation.” DANA, “Geology....

It is a friend to the friendless, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, a helper to the helpless, good cheer and courage to the disheartened. It will bring light into darkne...