Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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- ' 55112 451221015 ft rf Grades WHY THE GRADES SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN HOLINESS SCHOOLS Every child comes into this world freighted with potentialities which must be drawn out, developed, and turned into the right channels if the child is to live a complete, holy, and useful life. And since the impressions made on the mind of the child early inlife are so lasting, it is of utmost importance that hc receive the best of training while young. So significant is the early impres- sionable age that some churches have said, Give me the child for the first sev- en years and the world may have him the rest of his life. Next to the home, the elementary school is the greatest factor in molding and determining the character of the future life of the young. It is within the walls of the school-room that the greater number of the years of the formative period is spent. In so many young lives today this training is the only training and moral instruction received, thus it is for this reason, and also for the fact that impressions once made can only with difficulty be unmade that the ele- mentary school should be of the best possible kind. And what institution is better fitted to offer such training than the holiness school? Under its super- vision the subjects studied and especially the study of science which has its foundation for higher scientific study laid in the grades should direet the child in scientific subjects accompaning it with the knowledge of a living God and our dependence upon Him. True science confirms rather than destroys a be- lief in a Creator and his personal Divine Revelation. However, not only because of its method of teaching should the child be trained in a holiness school, but also because of the need of good environment. In a school of spiritual influence, the ehild's mind so impression- able will be directed toward the pure and moral. How foolish it is for Christian parents to send their children to public schools where their minds are gripped by worldly desires and ambitions and then to expect them to still desire the things of God and to continue to aspire to godly ideals and spiritual accom- plishments. Woiilcl it not be much better if the parents would follow the injunction of the scriptures, 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart form it. If this were carried out it would eliminate many of the problems arising in the church and state. Some one has wisely said, In the widest sense of the word man is educat- ed either for good or for evil by everything he experiences from the cradle to the grave! In view of this great. truth, the child's surroundings should be carefully chosen so that he will be intiueneed as little as possible by evil. Children a1'e imitators and their elders are their examples. Since it is thc nature of a child in school to think of his teacher as one who does everything right and since he patterns after the teacher, it is a matter of no little con- sequence that he be under the instruction of a godly teacher, indued with divine wisdom, who can and will draw out the best and stimulate the good in his be- ing. For one to be truly prepared to hold the responsibility of shaping the character of an immortal soul, as a teacher does, one must be in touch with God and be directed by Him, who alone understands his creation. Only when under such instruction is the future of thc child safe. liet us not forget that it is not for time only but for eternity that we build in the training of a child. Shall we not then, remembering that the children of today will constitute the church of tomorrow, give them the best that under God we can? --Pearl Sims. GQ C52 N ii Q C7 :Li ECS GQ P nf' l EQ Q. it ,,,5'DCf' PWM' .sign vi -57-