r all together can hinder him
from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own. If he has
not found his home in God, his manners, his form of speech, the turn
of his sentences, the build, shall I say of all his opinions, will
involuntarily confess it, let him brave it out how he will."

The longings of the human heart are unsatisfied, until the soul finds
its home in God, its creator and preserver. Teachers that ignore this
fact, lack one thing that is vitally important. Our Lord Jesus, the
great teacher, expressed its relative importance when he said: "Seek ye
first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things
will be added unto you."

A RAILROAD PRESIDENT

James J. Hill, a prominent railroad president recently made this
important statement:

"We are making a mistake to train our young people
in various lines of knowledge for undertaking the big tasks
of life, without making sure also that those fundamental
principles of right and wrong as taught in the Bible, have
become a part of their equipment. There is a control of
forces and motives, that is essential to the management of
the vast affairs of our nation, which comes only through
an educated conscience; and to fail to equip young men,
who are to manage the great affairs of the future, with this
control and direction, is a serious mistake of the age and
bears with it a certain menace for the future."

In a recent issue of the Assembly Herald there appeared the following
very pertinent paragraphs on this subject, credited to the Synod of
Tennessee:

"In common with all good citizens, we rejoice in the progress of the
cause of popular education in our land. The intelligence of our
citizenship is a bulwark to the country. But unless the education of
the future citizen is complete and symmetrical, the body politic
becomes a body partly of iron and partly of potter's clay. The
education of the head and the hand without the heart is not enough.

"The popular education has no place for the heart in all of its
splendid equipment. This is not a reflection on the fine system. It
is merely the statement of a melancholy fact. The average state
school, high or low, is absolutely colorless as to religion. Even
the morality that is taught is not the morality of the Christian
religion, but of philosophi