Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns – PDF

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LIVING FOUNTAINS
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BROKEN CISTERNS
An
Educational Problem for
Protestants.
"My people have committed two evils; they
have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and
hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that
can hold no water." Jer. 2:13.
Bv E. A. SUTHERLAND
President of Battle Creek College
REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING CO.
BATTLE OREEK, MiCHIGAN
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Copyright, 1900,
BY E. A. SUTHERLAND
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PREFACE
-TIIERE are few books which treat of the history
of education, and fewer which attempt to show the
part that the educational work has ever borne in
the upbuilding of nations. That religion is insep-
arably connect~d with, ·and upheld by, the system.
of education maintained by its advocates, has been
recognized by many historians in a casual way;
but, to the author's knowledge, no one has·
hitherto made this 'thought the subject of a
volume.
In teaching the history of education and the
growth of Protestantism, the close relationship
ever existing. between the latter and true methods
of education led to a careful study of the educa-
tional system of -the nations of . the earth, espe-
cially of those nations which have exerted a
lasting influence upon_ the world's history. The
present volume is ,the result of that study.
D 'Aubigne says that in the Reformation "the
school was early placed beside the church; and
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4 PREFACE
these two great institutions, so powerful to regen~
erate the nations, were equally reanimated by it.
It was by a close alliance with learning that the
Reformation entered into the wqrld."
True education, Protestantism, and republic-
anism form a threefold union which defies the
powers of earth to overthrow; -but to-day the
Protestant churches are growing weak, and the
boasted freedom of America's democracy is being
exchanged for monarchical principles of govern-
ment.
This weakness is rightly attributed by some to
the want of proper education. The same cause
of degeneracy would ·doubtless be assigned by
many oth~rs, were effects traced to their source.
The author has attempted, by a generous use
of historical quotations, to so arrange facts that
the reader will see that the hope of Protes-
tantism and the hope of republicanism lies in
the proper education of the youth; and that this
true education is found in the principles deliv-
ered by 1e hovah to his chosen people, the 1e ws;
that it was afterward more- fully demonstrated by
the Master Teacher, ~hrist; that the Reformation
witnessed a revival of these principles; and that
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Protesfants to-day, if true to their faith, will edu'-
cate their children in accordance with these same
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principles.
Due credit is given t9 the authors quoted, a
Hst of whose- names appears at the end of the
volume. A complete index renders this work
easy of reference.. E. A. s. ·_
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGB
I GoD THE SouRCE OF WISDOM 9
II THE HEAVENLY SCHOOL IS
III THE EDENIC SCHOOL 2 2
IV THE HISTORY OF FIFTEEN CENTURIES 42
V THE SCHOOL OF ABRAHAM 54
VI EDUCATION IN IsRAEL 68
VII THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE PAGAN
WORLD • 92
VIII CHRIST THE EDUCATOR OF EDUCATORS I I 7
IX EDUCATION IN THE EARLY CHURCH 139
X THE PAPACY- AN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM IS6 l
XI EDUCATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES I84
XII THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY REFORMATION AN
EDUCATIONAL REFORM • 214
XIII THE REACTION AFTER THE EDUCATIONAL
REFORMATION 2 48
XIV AMERICA AND THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM 288
XV AMERICA AND THE EDUCATION:A.L PROBLEM
(Continued) 316
XVI CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 339
XVII CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (Continued) 380
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