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are subservient to the nurture of the religious life. Their value is determined by their ability to meet the needs of the pupil. His moral and religious welfare is more than subject matter. Not information or knowledge but religious growth is the end desired. What shall it profit the pupil
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to possess the whole world of religious knowledge if at a particular period of his growth he lacks that upon which his soul may be nourished?
When we ask what determines whether given material will nurture the moral and religious life at a particular period, we are brought. face to face with the principle already stated, namely, The nature of the pupil determines the materials and methods of nurture. That is, the law that should govern the selection of teaching material is that law which God has written in the child's own nature. If the pupil is to grow, he must have food for his present needs, just that truth which is suited to meet to-day's needs. Lessons will not suffer by being made to wait,; the pupil may.
If, now, it
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