The Bible In Our Schools

Men ask, Shall we teach the Bible in weekday school? Why not lay the stress on teaching religión, with or without the Bible? Religión will still be in its eternal youth when the Bible has fulfilled its inighty office and passed away from that heaven where there is no temple. Religión is not a knowledge of certain things; it is a state of the heart in which all knowledge should be received and used. How can any good teacher help but teach religión? It is coextensvie with the universe. It is not mere ecclesias tical or academical tenets; it is not any part of life; it is only the whole science and art of life animated and inspired by a nniversally pej-vasive and perfect philosophy, the very alphabet of all correct teaching - an alphabet whose Alpha and Omega are unsellishness. But unselfishness is not self annihilation, nor any effort after it. It 13 but the subordination of self to its place ip the universal hannony. lts result is - what its motives must never be or the result fails - an imineasurably greatet and better aggrandizeuient of self than any self seeking can possibly attain. True teaching, then, whether in the Bible or not, can be only that sort which moves the student to ask of every off ered acquisition, not How can this serve self? ut What self equipment will this add for that blessed service of the universal harmony, which by its nature tends to make the whole universe myself, and saves me from the f olly and ruin of