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Show THE PROTESTANT PRESS ON SECULARIZED SECU-LARIZED EDUCATION. The Paris "Temps" quotes from one of the text books in use in the French schools the following teaching concerning God: "Imagine a being who is always good and to whom we owe everything; such a being would be God. And suchji being, u lie exists, we ought to love and honor." "If God exists, then all great thoughts and noble deeds must be agreeable to Him, no matter in what soul they arise. And if He does not exist, man's first duty still remains the same." "Is is because they love God that thobc who believe in Him go to church? Yes. but they might omit going to church and still be acceptable to God." This paragraph illustrates finely the impossibility impossi-bility of neutrality in religion. - The-profound words of Jesus, "He that is not. with Me is against Me," have no clearer illustration than is found in the work of education. From the Christian Sratesmau. One thing France is making clear to the world, and that is that a nation without faith in God is on the path of self-destruction. Without a supernatural super-natural sanction, morality itself in the average person per-son tends to crumble and disappear. It is a oommonplace of history that the nation that forgets God is scourged by it3 own vices. From the British Congregationalism |