But the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.”
Thinking and living.
The school makes possible the higher life when it teaches the pupil to think. Right thinking puts intelligence into the labor of his hands, increases his earning-power, lays the foundation for his physical well-being, and lifts him above an existence that is a mere struggle for bread. It promotes the higher life by teaching him to think God’s thoughts, as enshrined in all His works, and the best thoughts of the best men, as embodied in literature and the humanities. It fits the pupil for complete living by developing in him the power to appreciate the beautiful in nature and art, power to think the true and to will the good, power to live the life of thought, and faith, and hope, and love.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES
[1] For brevity’s sake the phrase, thinking in things, is preferred to the more accurate but less convenient expression, thinking in the images of things.
[2] Psychopannychism denotes the doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, not to awaken until the resurrection.
[3] For this incident the writer is indebted to Superintendent L. H. Jones, of Cleveland, Ohio.