. Proceedings and addresses of the Texas Methodist Educational Convention ... 1906. [electronic resource] . ater, and hunger aftera diet of strong meat. It is my rooted conviction that Metho-dism is the best interpretation of the gospel of Jesus Christthat the world has ever seen, and I am not in the least inclinedto take up an apologetic attitude, or to enter a plea for outsidefavor by publishing that it is not my desire to propagateMethodism. That is my desire. What are we here for ? Theether Churches are entitled to do the same thing. They are 23 EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION actually doing it. I
. Proceedings and addresses of the Texas Methodist Educational Convention ... 1906. [electronic resource] . ater, and hunger aftera diet of strong meat. It is my rooted conviction that Metho-dism is the best interpretation of the gospel of Jesus Christthat the world has ever seen, and I am not in the least inclinedto take up an apologetic attitude, or to enter a plea for outsidefavor by publishing that it is not my desire to propagateMethodism. That is my desire. What are we here for ? Theether Churches are entitled to do the same thing. They are 23 EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION actually doing it. I honor them for it. If they should takeany other course, they would be tacitly or openly confessingthat they put no high estimate on the value of the missionwhich they are set to accomplish. With a great joy, I rejoice over the gathering of this con-vention. It has been one of my dreams. God grant that itmay be the beginning of a new era, the dawning of the gladday in which an intelligent and liberal Church shall rise upwith a fresh and victorious spirit to meet the demands ofpatriotism and of 24 Relation of Our Church Schools tothe Spiritual Life of the Church REV. W. H. LA PRADE, D. D. The Church school is really an expression of the spirituallife of the Church. It is one of the products of religious en-ergy. All life seeks organic expression which shall be de-clarative of its nature, and where the life is more than mereexistence the instinct of reproduction induces such expressionas will tend to perpetuate its particular type. This is as trueof intellectual and spiritual life as it is of physical life. GodHimself creates after His own image. The Church may do this—does it constantly—without theaid of the organized school, through the larger school of tradi-tion and by her unwritten rules of activity, but when all thepowers of well-developed and thoroughly trained minds are tobe seized and used, the academy is her chosen field. Thereshe may conserve her energies
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