The Coquille Valley sentinel., October 23, 1925, Page 4, Image 4

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ths Hf." Jesus, <•*«
right out of any of the Gospel«. I
do not bahevs hs would receive any
more incorrect or Msaad teaching
some teschsre to my
church Sun-
ii.’ti ’XutT'-SSJ-
want to treat to teach my hoy to a
courm oa the life of Jeaue. But WL.n
it comm to interpreting the mean­
ing of Jesus’ pUto .teaching about
how the human race ought to behave,
I am very confident that the average
American school-teachej would not
begin to make the fatos and grotes­
que statement, that some of my
teacher. made to me about the glory
of war and tbs political economy
that was divorced from every ethical
and morel standard.
‘ If religion cannot be taught, why
did Jesus tell' His disciples to teaeh
it? If it ean be taught safely only
in the church and in the home, how
about the millions of youth that nev­
er have any religious instruction to
either of those places, but are in
daily .tendance on the public echo >1 .
If the teachers now employed cannot
be treated to teach religion, is it be
cause they hwve a wrung definition
of it? Or la religion to the very na­
ture of the case a thing.that belongs
to the emotions, a thing which one
has to learn for himself and which
no course in education can teach ?
The answers to these question, will
depend largely on the way you . wr-
self have been brought up, and on the
definition you have of religion. But
the need of some form of religious in­
struction hardly calls for argumert
or debate. AU thinking people agree
fully developed life must have
omething more to it thap the accum­
ulation of facto. Even
i are necessary
sioal happiness, there is some th ins
lacking, tyit before the educational
and ecclesiastical world will come to­
gether in a common asset to this
need, boto sides will have to make
now definitions. The pharisee in the
chprch to answerable for the distor­
tion of the teaching »f Jesus into a
burlesque of theology and forms and
ceremonies.
Religion
cannot
be
taught in our educational system if
by religion is meant controversy
over matters that are not connected
with behavior. But it can be taught
and it mutt be taught if by it we
Incan what -Jesus meant when He
Obd ttth «H thy hohrt, and with TOT
thy soul, and'with all thy strength,
mid with all thy mind; and thy neigh-
bor as thyself.” If that capnot be
taught in our educational system,
.then the system to wrong. If it can
bo taught, to the name of Him who
came to give us life abundantly, let
us incorporate it into the very heart
of our schools, putting it first of all
into the hearts of our teachers. For
education without religion is more
than a blunder—it to * falsehood; and
if we de not teach religion to the
schools ws deserve to suffer .s a
nation and go the way of all those
nations that have thought more of
accumulating facts than of making
life.
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To earn up:
If religion la theology, and doc­
trine, and creeds made over disputed
definitions of God and theories of
man’s destiny, it cannot be taught in
out schools.
But if religion is love to God and
man, it can be taught anywhere and
it ought to bo taught to out schools.
If it is not taught, our whole educa­
tion.) pyramid will continue to wob­
ble on its pinnacle instead of resting
firmly on its base.
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