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religion is all-important to mankind, and if it
is most deeply impressed on the soul in
childhood and youth, then it ought un-
questionably to form a part of every system

 

of education. Shall we teach our children
all worldly things, and never inculcate
the principles which are necessary to save their
souls? Every reasonable Christian parent admits the
duty of teaching his children the words of life.
But teachers take the place of parents in the matter
of education. In many thousands of instances, at
large schools, the pupils are so much separated from
their parents that they see them only for a few weeks
in every year, during a considerable portion of early
life. It would be a monstrous absurdity to hold that
such children ought to be left without religious in-
struction from their teachers. This is a very simple
statement of the question concerning Christian educa-
tion. None but an unwise or a wicked parent will