Article April 16, 1949 Issue

Signs of the Times

The Bible And Education

with contributions from W. G. Gamble, Rollin H. Walker, Frank Martin, Charles A. Wells

Ex. Comp. W. G. Gamble in an article in The Keystone Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The most important knowledge should be that which is spiritual, for it is written, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." If we read the Bible aright, if we read Shakespeare aright, and if we interpret human experience aright, then in a visible and tangible world, subject to change and decay, the only things that endure are the invisible and intangible things of the spirit.

The education we should acquire, the breadth of it and the depth of it, is largely a question of the ideal, the dream we may have of the kind of mental world in which we would wish to live; but in any concept of a liberal education there must surely be the vision of the man who respects the property, the rights, and the religion of others, the man who is courteous at all times, who is considerate, who is kind, the man who above all is absolutely sincere, a lover of his country, a seeker of good, the man who is the living answer to that great question that has burned down through the ages, "Who is my neighbour?"

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