Oscar Handlin, in a recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly, warns us that we are utterly unprepared to take care of the tidal wave of students now sweeping toward the schools and colleges of our nation, and he presents a gloomy set of statistics to prove his point. “The teacher shortage alone has become so acute,” says […]

“And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” Does the reading of these words from Genesis 1:27 impress you but little? This may be due in part to the fact that you know them so well. As a morning mist obscures the beauty of a hillside landscape, so your familiarity with the […]

Out of the seed, out of the stalk, the leaf, the flower This harvest, multicolored, multiform, Falls to the lap of earth In silent, effortless birth. Food for the race of man, and, meshed in each fruit, Seed for another generation Of root and tendril and flower— Seed for a summer bower, Cool and redolent […]

Accrediting of Christian schools by non-Christian accrediting agencies sometimes creates a problem. Occasionally a school board will ask whether it is worthwhile. I know of one school that dropped accreditation during the depression years. Crowded enrollments in the future will again raise the question of the cost to maintain accreditation. Educational standards that concern the qualifications of […]

In June of this year, the Division of Life and Work of the National Council of Christian Churches recommended to the Council the adoption of a statement of policy respecting the Right to Work laws which had been passed by many states and the passage of which in other states is being contemplated. The General Board of the National Council […]

Jesus of Yesterday and Today SAMUEL G. CRAIG The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1956. 186 pages. $2.75. The author of this most timely and well· written book is a father in Israel. He not only dedicates it to his grandchildren, but in the account of his life we learn that for over forty years he […]