The following pages are the result of much exercise of soul concerning the education of youth. Modern thought would enthrone man's reason. True wisdom is subjection to the Word of God. "The Greeks seek after wisdom." 1 Cor. 1:2222For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: (1 Corinthians 1:22). Now God allowed the Greeks to reach a pinnacle of human wisdom, which is the height of human thought apart from revelation. History clearly shows that the moral state of Greece at the time that these men of philosophy flourished was so shocking that it were better not to read the facts.
Education does not change the moral nature of man. "The flesh profiteth nothing." John 6:6363It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63). Christ is the wisdom of God. (1 Cor. 1:2424But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:24) and 30.) To faith, His death is the end of the first man entirely, and His life is the pattern of the new man for his walk in this world to God's glory. May we read God's precious revelation ( the Bible), believe it, meditate upon it, and seek His grace to walk in the light and wisdom of it.—H.E.H.
By various maxims, forms, and rules,
That pass for wisdom in the schools,
I sought my passions to restrain,
But all my efforts proved in vain.
But since the Savior I have known,
My rules are all reduced to one;
To keep my Lord by faith in view,
This strength supplies and motive too.