Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 305, 20 October 1891 — Education. [ARTICLE]

Education.

f In oiher parts of the one of the great subjects ofstūdy among the good and wise men, is that that pertains to education. Lately there was a Convention of leading Scholars held in the United States, whieh included among the list of attendants at the ueeting menfrom all the leading nations, cefebrated for their learning. Among the manyinterestingsubjects upon whieh an opinion was given by āll 6r nearly all who were preseat on one occasion, was what is the best sōu» , ce of Knowledge — invariably every answer pointed to the Bible as the mainspring of all knowledge, and the 'Saviour as the greatest of all the teachers the world has ever oroduced. N The opinion was expressed by Professor Prescott, Parr, Barnes, Smith, and others, from their own researches and studies, and from the immediate tests whieh they had seen proven in their meetings by the Bcholars, who professed no great knowledge of the classics, and languages, but were biblical students. In all the debates.andessays, on any sub]ect, the Advent teachers, who depended entirely for their ru!e and guide in all things from the teachings of the Saviour for their knowledge were cordially ae&nowledged to be pre-eminent, and credited by themselves and their co-workers at the Convention, as indeed traceable and duē to the study and inspiration from the teachings of the Divine Master.

The unaniraous opioioii of these learned men have led to a decision that a revision of school books is necessary. Taking for instance the erroneous knowledge conveyed to the pupil from Geographv: that the. world was created by a process of evolution was without foundation, it being merely tbe unsubstantißted theory of men, without any base in fact for the t,heory. All knowledge comes from God through his Son, and this knowledge teaches of us the creAion of the wor!d and all thirigs uiK.n it, and the nlanetary connected with it.- N0 >sciestifie system knowledge bas giv«\> us a truer i<l'*a from wheneeman eamei He was croutf-d from tbe eartb. and a breatb of air bre Übed into him by the Creat-

or, the inanimate clay into a lfving sotil, and npon hiV iUnth f when he eoama to exist, he dissolve6 and pn6Bti back to the very material -or substance from whenee he was formed. This fact is giveh in the scripture by the Divine Teacher <x>mplete in one Bhwt veree of the Bible, while the wisdom of man } has written volumes upon volume»' on this sub ject and the whole put together does not give as mueh correet knowledge as that given in the one verse cf the BibJe. whieh **hows how he was made, by whom and from what materialv and when he ceaises to existi Take the planetar,y system., The teaches therēār<r worlds innuEnerable,.each having as eom* plele a svstem as that around our sphere. Yet we have been taught up to the present time in our books that the Sun of this world governs the planetary system ©f the universe. How true is the Bible when it tells finite man that the summit of his knowledge is foolisnness before the Infinite Wisdom of God. Not verv long ago a profeseing Christian teacher beforg an audiat the Hallt said, in the face of the plain statement of the Divine Teacher, -that the days of creation were a long decade of a thousand years, yea a millk>n of years t at the same tinie bressing the scripture to his heart and saying he loved its teachings. etc.,and he believed it, as it si>oke the Truth. Yet the Bible plainly teaches- -us. that the Sun and Moon and Stars ruled the day. The bibie text is snbstantiatcd by the movements of this sphere and these divisions of light, whieh we are told by the Creator is to give light eaeh onis haif of the day. Yet this deluded professing lover of,the Bible and of God tried to make the word of God an untruth, and set up in his eon- | ceit a man made theory on a supposition without a fact to sustain it, and thus cast a reproach upon the truth. As we have said all knowledge comes from God, through his begotten Sbn, to man whieh he had created.

- As these Biblical teaches stated, there was nothing ? no knowledge of anv kind, in the lit«rature of the heathen, pagan, or professing Chris tian, but is traceable to the Scrip ture. No eode of chorals or mle oi righteousness that embrace6 eoni pleteness, perfection, justness and holinesB as the Ten Cominand ments whieh was given for man'e rule and guide of action. Th s view was proven and conceded bv th* learned and it was roso|ved tfcat the school books of period were erroneous in muny tures and should be revised - corrected.