Show URGES USE OF II TIlE THE f BIBLE IN N SCHOOLS IS Rev Simpkin Tells of Value of v Great Book Aside From S Religious Teachings EDUCATORS FIND FINO A LACK v Thinkers in Scholastic World Know Finished Students Need More Learning 1 1 rhe education of ot the youth was tho the II t plc selected by the Rev Peter A. A i for Cor his sermon yesterday esterday In Inthe the CO Congregational church He lie was greeted by a 0 largo large au audience lence and the service Ice was one very CO much cn- cn joyed oyed The musical numbers were well rendered and nOlI much appreciated Tho The Rev He spoke as follows follows- In of oC the fact that school begins begins be be- gins tomorrow and that the machinery of or educational life will be grinding away upon the souls and minds of or our children I 1 deem It a present duty to I of ot a malt matter lr of or vital Import to tous I which will zollow lol- lol us and the generation 1 I low us Never waa education moro more thoroughly thorough thorough- ly Iv to 10 lobe be desired than now nOY for b by scientific clen title processes it II Is laying its hand with more of power upon tho the mind and unel 0 life and Its ts dower of ot equipment for lor or the struggle of or life Is ever larger lalJer School are nrc approaching the tile Ideal In 1 physical fitness the equipment for forhand I hand eye and azid brain Is H ever Improving ln and to the thc older ones who survive sur horrom from froni preceding generations no less than to the visitors visitor from rom far lr lands our schools h J me nrc e wonderful in addition to the thc fine machinery of or our school buildings a and rd equipment we wo are arc proud of or the m men n and om women n college bred normal trained who mute up the mass ss of r our teaching force Giving ln themselves to close and patient nt study stud of the child Nl eager to cr to take tale Into hand every even Influence 5 that will vill count for for his awakening and andi ard i OJ equipment n they make a body at once I hei bT gle Affective 1 V and lI admirable I The country u Ii them 1 a n year for their service and It Il Is not flOt enough Unit erne Shaped for tor flue Child ChIM The he s-rt s great t universe Is gripped and I. I l for the child possession Life tife I IP I as is near nar as aa m may be lac t to tom coni- by him is packed J patiently by the the facts nets facts and 1 philosophies I V lie IC wIll TV-HI need tomorrow as ho lie fights I i All iI the time thorn tuoro is improvement j t but of or course the tho perfect Is not yet Indeed l is far away r r 4 t I I 1 wish to to emphasize e what I believe L I. I to 10 be a vital Itai essential without which r F we ve shall not can em not reach the perfect I h h. 1 In any my measure 1 What hat was the greatest educational edu edu- I t. t congress ever held on the earth f was vas gathered In tui in the first t city of southern California The great f du- du I not all of course cours but most mORt of If them attended Its sessions A of rich ilch things filled the days lays The faddist fad fad- dl dist t was there the man with a n Ine mental tal talt V t evidenced himself occasionally but It It t was as on the Hie whole a 1 fine tine body 0 of ot strong admirably sane men and wo wo- men A vA great appreciation of intellect t vas as evidenced on every hand Culture o of oftIe t tIe tl he t true le and deep decD kind was urged an and Jar cor er There was a 0 ready assent V 0 0 th the vital nerd need of fine Cine and technical of ot the brain of oC American t TOr Or leadership leadership- hut but there t also wl widespread end and nel earnest t. t missing quantity In the work pC pf the pl It JI is of that missing quantity I would speak Need Ceil of Religious Teaching reaching V The men men and anel women who have C In In mind nind this great work of oC training our ourn n young life expressed In that gathering a a. sentiment pronOunced and cautious In behalf al o of a rehabilitation of ot God and nd rell religion lon In the public schools of or America It is IR known to all of oC you how throughout lt America in al alV almost al- al V most every state and territory there has been a avery very merciless merciless' shutting out Ut of pt the he teaching of or anything of a religious rell- rell character That is not to ta say ray that ethics have had no place In the reboot room Earnest souls by thousands thousands thousands ands have ha sought to sen send out children with ideals of honesty truth and hUt but there has been no place for the definite teaching teach of ot the basic essentials essen essen- of that religion which Is commonly common common- ly Iy held In Its Us Usar ar varying form by all Americans p You know h why Jt it has been beon so A Jealousy Jealous and bitterness between Catholic Cath th nIle olic and Protestant between the thc men of or the different churches who professed to be le loving ng and finding their lIf life in inthe the same e Lord and truth and religion O V drove 1110 out th the most roost essential I thing In Inthe Inthe inthe the curriculum of or any my school or orI system tern tem of education Thank God that time lime I of n narrow bl bigotry is almost tone gono It II ItI itIs I 1 Is rare to find those who answer to the cynical description of the last Jast c century ceo cen n- n tury which spoke of those who hate bate ach other oilier for tor the love lovo of God Cod Now Nois' ow the tho emer emergence nce of this conviction V 1 tion lion or sentiment In the late bite mooting meetIng Is It an t evidence that the thinkers of or our educational world o ha found some lack Jack ackIn k In Jn the finished hed product of the schools V or fir have found light that reve reveals the necessity tf that t they insist upon I IV V think the question of Vo what nt is the ul ultimate ul- ul V of ot education for tor our children w will iiI 11 In attempt of or honest V answer give the reason foi for this proposal pro 1110 V V Education Cultured Education Is for the of or making cultured cultured cul eul- character It Is to make mae clever V capable good citizens of oC the world For Jor the thc world is on only 1 a bl big city now L. L whoso whose continents arc are wards who e c countries precincts America Is but hut huto the laboratory of world world- o wide things The end of tho the state stat Is the s of or and doing The Thc folly oily of or thinking that t more mere ment mental mental men men- t tal I acuteness Is 13 the desideratum tum Is 11 dying Arnold of ot Rugby said sala Ixl years ngone agone M Mere rc rc Intellectual Ij I j ne ness s divested as 8 it Is in too many cases cass of or nIl all that Is comprehensive and lInel great preat rat and good Is to lo me mc more revolting than the most helpless Imbecility seemIng seeming seem seem- Ing In- Into to be almost like the spirIt of or MephIstopheles What Vhal wo so must look loule for In the school chool Is fI first rAt rell religious religion lou aw nil I moral principle secondly gentlemanly conduct thirdly Intellectual ability Arnold was the prophet o of tho the no now e education Our national attitude and the really earnest religious lous note of our whole lire lite has saved us from some of or the consequences conse cone of or our folly tolly In driving out the tho tc teaching from our schools France stands an nn example JI pitiful and anel t terrible of the result o of such 8 o. o course The shallow noisy atticism atheism n which pursues relentlessly the tho last relics of or divine roll religion ion from their place CC in public J Jfe rt has haA b been n fed on the thc pabulum of a godless culture We 0 ant wint no such fruitage as that t In our Ainer- Ainer lea which is IR consecrate forever foro in the tho sacrifices of or its Ils founders nu and der defenders defend defend- ers to the highest anti anil most religious lous altruism V I Ind And nd yet ct we travel el less le s slowly the same s road Ono One cannot study th con conditions of the theland theland Juvenile delinquency throughout land cannot review re the th dally daily records s which reck with the lusts the crimes tho the ro godless less abandon o of so much of the youth of or our time without feeling the fear of or tomorrow without sensing somewhere a gri great at lack hack Conditions at al hand make pertinent tho the ne need nedd d. d Must Puce Fool Not to be pessimistic but hut to be he courageously courageously cour cour- true to ourselves and II lifes life's demand should face and nod stu study y the farts facts of life Undeniably a great r at mass of the lifo life l the he last l two 0 decades has lieu sent out from our schools chool Is heedless of or the great abiding things s. s ignorant of the vl eternal cureless careless of or God find nd Ills His ideals Now there thoro Is II n a relation between cn the I conditions of life which we wo deplore and tho the schools school's work worl It is not rooted In tn what the school imparts but in what it falls fails to give Self re self self- knowledge self control cannot come conic of ot a system of ot training which deliberately deliberately lea leaves leas s out the highest But tint much ns ne one might find In support support sup sup- port of tho ho argument extraneously the great reason Is within the life I Lawlessness Lawlessness Law Law- w- w may appall I lust hust a and license may shock laXIty of ethics ma may t trouble but the real reason wh why y we should give ourselves to the change lies in the thc command com corn mand of or God Goll and in the fact that the thc throne room of ot life Is not In the brain with which the tho teacher te has so ao exclusIvely exclusively exclusively dealt In the Immediate past Education must minister to the thie enlI en- en lI of the mind and so 50 shape shapo and guard cuard and Influence the lie thought ond the tho will But the will is the master master mas inns ter thinG That will can bo ho touched only superficially by bJ all mathematical formulae syntax law lav lavand and fact UnI Unless Un Un- I less ss It be affected b by something that I keys eys it to the high it will simply take talo for use oil all It gleans for selfish advantage tage either to the ministry to Its lower lowel hoel body or the selfish ambitions s b by which It Il comes to and power possession and profit by utterly callous Indifference Indifference ence once to tho the rights and the feelings of or orIts its fellows A Leson on From Nothing Is capable of ot making the great deep appeal which awakens life as Is tho the training which sweeps Into view God and tho the souls soul's fundamental fundament relation to him Did you ou ever er note the Hie statement of or Herodotus about the trainIng training train train- In ing of the tho Persian princes over 4 0 years before the lie Christian era At 7 the boy was taught to ride and to face wild beasts be at 14 ho was placed under the he care of four Cour guides uhles or teachers who were vero the lie wisest the tho most roost Just the most temperate and the most bravo brave th that t could bo ue found From these says nays Herodotus Hero lIero- dotus dottis he learned earnel four tour things the fear nd a-nd service of the tho gods to speak eal the truth always not to be conquered b by lany any in indulgence and antI to be fearless In Jn all nU things knowing that whenever he lie fears he lie Is not a n prince but a slave sIa The Tho Important thing Is that stress the they laid upon the first and greatest thing the fear car and aIM service of God The plea plen Is made mallo now not for the In Installation Installation In- In of aC the peculiar beliefs but the common and fundamental things in the thc great reat religion of or the age asre Far moro more than a n familiarity with mathematical ma ma- formulae or the fine line use of or ortho tho the Yen verb to b be far beyond the tho comprehension compre compre- hension of the red spots in history that tell of or unfolding and growth far past last the lie stately simplicity or majestic beauty beauty beau beau- t ty of or tho the masters of pro prose e and anel poem the child chillI soul needs to be impressed sed with the thou thought ht of God Gael As the lie Pathor Path Path- or er o of all aU that live an and move and ann I II have I 0 being helni as the God Goel who has to do with life as ns the great law giver whose dicta run unendingly through the lie age Je the child chilli should hould know Him Hun The fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental facts o of his great reat government government- the thc persistence of the law that evil willbe will willbe willbo be bo punished and virtue and go goodness rewarded not simply after the limited fashion of ot the ela day but commensurately with lie nature of the soul goul and onel Its powers powers pow pow- ers should be bo fastened early on his heart That life Ufe IR is to Go God and not to tl self sel or to men That Thal He lie has set us to V he not to ha have hae e And Anel above e all there should be In Inthe inthe the tho schoolroom the text book of or the eternal The Bildo should have place pace there Not merely merel because it la is the most beautiful hit bit of or literature in the world because use its limpid English and perfect style are arc of or great formative value alue its poetry drama and n narrative of or the tho highest value aluc but hut because It Is the highest and most perfect revealing o of God Gol to to man man nian soul The Tho end is not to indoctrinate with that which Is peculiar and anel sectarian It Is hut to give him Ideals which will send him out hating evil c anti and loving good It Is but to put Into his life lire the Greatest comprehension of that be lie may maybe mayhe be he be the greatest l abhorrence of that In Indulgence In- In dul or conduct that will surely Burch rob him of or lii his highest po possibilities and jO Joy that will develop an unshaken love lovo or Jor or truth and a firm resolution to follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low how it for himself And Anil above all nil Inthe in iii inthe the lI light ht of that lint revealing which the tho great hoo book brings to tho the heart It will give vc him to see his is poul toul as it Is h affiliated affil with thi the great reat Master Master life In lii tic the following o of the lie good and tho the right |