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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
AWAKEN THE SOUL!! The great end in Religious Education is
not to stamp our minds upon the young,
but to stir up their own:
Not to make them see with our eyes,
but to look inquiringly with their own.
Not to form an outward regularity,
but to touch inward springs.
Not to bind them by prejudices
to our particular sect or peculiar notions;
but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging
of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision.
Not to burden the memory, but to quicken
and strengthen the power of thought;
Not to impose religion upon them in the form of arbitrary rules,
but to awaken the conscience, the moral discernment.
In a word, the great end is to awaken the soul,
to excite and cherish spiritual life.'
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