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Show Edwin H. Wilson methods. We do not teach attitudes of fear nor instill beliefs We know that fear and without evidence. credulity may of a child the spirit young beyond recovery and keep warp him the slave of a creed. No child whose mind has been inescapably filled with dead doctrine concocted in ancient days ever can possess real freedom. Our purpose is rather to develop an appreciation of the best, a thirst for truth, a hunger for goodness, a love of the beautiful, an admiration for admirable people, and ethical discrimination. Our whole aim is of so to equip children that when the years judgment they may choose a way of life that is personally satisfying and socially useful. We desire early experiences of the church to be happy ones. We endeavor to expose our pupils to the example of inspiring teachers; to give them knowledge of the various faiths, the several Christs, come the many Gods, the varied scriptures and ideals of the race; so that as they mature they will be equipped and free to determine their of in success duty and their the life of the church. concerning to own in this work is active our trustworthy, bitious participation of their parents has any doubt the young people It is the usual thing to find If one this method, let him look be found in them churches. ever to self-reliant, intelligent, and reverent, Such to serve. faith. A condition own good fruit comes from a good am tree! purpose also to provide fellowship for those of liberal outlook. "Fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship It is our is hell." Our But religious society our is not just a social club. position and purpose determine the level of our fellow it is the level of the ideal. The liberal church is not ship a place - of sackcloth and ashes. It is where children and adults more together can like a laugh larger family, and play no highest. We want the quest for the life joyous thing. Our church is a place where less than seek the abundant to be a 279 |
