Article November 28, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Bolton Hall

[The Outlook.]

Now, if religion is life, fundamental and essential, it can no more be left out in childhood than the alphabet. There is no Christian doctrine so abstract as the arbitrary symbols A, B, and C. There is no more difficulty in learning the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes than in the study of seven times eight. A child is bound to accept many, many things without understanding much about them. His business is to learn, and the application will follow in time. It is not to be expected that a child of seven will have definite religious convictions, any more than that he will have a definite grasp of the science of numbers. But he is laying foundations, and necessary foundations, for his whole life. True religion is more important than arithmetic, if the parent really believes in immortality. First things must be put first, is a sound axiom.

[The Congregationalist and Christian World.]

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