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Show Is College Education Non-Christian ? An article from the pen of President Leavitt of Euinff college. IlU which appears in the current issue of the Homiletic Keview, ought to receive serious consideration from the thoughtful men of whatever creed. Dr. Leavitt attempts to answer the question : "Is the trend of college education away from Christ C lie gives an unqualified affirmative. He argues that the teaching in our colleges is becoming more and more non-Christian. lie says: "Every observant person has known of numerous numer-ous instances of believers who have had their faith unsettled by their scientific studies . . . Can studies so pursued as to atrophy one's spiritual na-, na-, Hire be said to tend toward Christ? Can an education edu-cation be truly Christian lhat does not increase one's power to apprehend God and to make Him known f" At another place in ihe same article he says that 'many bright young men return homo-from college absolutely wrecked.' Close observers of the drift of educated opinion in this country did not need the weight of Presi- ut-iiL wjvm s aumonty to know that quite a large proportion of the young men who conic from non-Catholic non-Catholic colleges, where a rampant radicalism, with reference to questions of belief, reigns, have no vital interest in the spiritual claims of Christianity. They regard Christianity as a pretty sort of old-fashioned old-fashioned toy that yielded great delight to the mind when men were in the nursery period of life. It is decorative, it exerts an influence on the life of the "masses," it is as interesting as Buddhism. Beyond that it is, to many of them, an historical factor a well-preserved relic in a museum of intellectual mummies. Boston Republic. |