Tag Archives: Christian Teaching

Christian Colleges Needed

No parent would expect his young son or daughter to physically compete with a professional athlete on the athletic field, yet we ask our Christian youth to do exactly that in the intellectual arena. That is, during their formative, immature … Continue reading

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Letting Children Free to Develop?

Coleridge was once talking with a man who told him that he did not believe in giving little children any religious instruction whatsoever. His theory was that the child’s mind should not be prejudiced in any direction, but when he … Continue reading

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The Purpose of Education

As 70-year-old philosophy professor Sidney Hook conducted his last class at New York University after 45 years of teaching there, he said he would break one of his rules and try to explain his own philosophy. “Though there is no … Continue reading

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Wesley Changes The English Countryside

John Wesley rode up and down through the English countryside during the last half of the eighteenth century, his soul touched by the poverty, the drabness, and the ugliness of the village life. One day he hit upon the scheme … Continue reading

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Origin of Canned Food

Leon Lunden, research director of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 56, tells us that when Napoleon’s armies invaded Europe, his general discovered that an “army marches on its stomach” and that foraging for food wastes time. But when the armies … Continue reading

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Record of Increasing Earthquakes

In the 9th century, there was one major earthquake; in the 11th century, two; in the 13th century, three; in the 16th, two; 17th, two; 18th, five (including the Lisbon); and in the 19th century, nine major earthquakes. So far … Continue reading

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