Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Cdocds F)all “May he who enters here leave care behind, and find comfort and content the handmaids awaiting him.”

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14 THE MASSASOIT more effective method of religious education the Train- ing School is taking an honorable place. Her students are taught “in season and out of season” that character building as well as body building is a science to be studied. We share in the growing conviction that reli- gious education has been sadly neglected. Parents have thrown the responsibility on the teacher. The fear of sectarian pros- elytism has muzzled the teacher. The Sunday Schools reach not more than twenty per cent of the children. Add to this the fact that the instruction in our Sunday Schools is confessedly on a lower plane than that of our public schools, and it ceases to be a matter of wonder that a large part of our population is religiously uneducated. Such a situation is an an- omaly for a professedly Christian people who even stamp on their coins “In God we trust.” It is our ideal not merely to help to place religious education in the Association on a more scientific and effective basis, but to hasten the time when religious education, in the large education will be as common and as scientifically di- rected as education in the sciences, and the school is Senior Table, {floods full Dining Room playing her part in this important movement. In the new movement towards a more rational and

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16 THE MASSASOIT and catholic sense, shall be considered a necessary part of general education. The Young Men’s Christian Association is funda- mentally an educational movement. Its ideal is to sup- plement general education at its weakest points. It is the ideal of the Training School to furnish leaders for this movement who are not merely trained in the tech- nique of their work, but who are men of vision, — seeing the ideal of a more vigorous, more intelligent, and more consecrated C hristian manhood, and equipped to make that ideal real in their own lives and in the lives of the voting men whom they touch.