For this Throwback Thursday Post, I am going back to this adaptation of William Ellery Channing's words I did for Starr Island RE Week in July 2010. They are definitely worth re-posting!
The great end in religious instruction is to stir up the minds of all of us - our children, youth, young adults, adults and elders.
To journey together as we look inquiringly and steadily with our own eyes and strive to see what others see.
It is to inspire a fervent love of truth.
To touch inward springs.
To prepare all of us for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to our decision.
To quicken and strengthen the power of thought.
To awaken the conscience, the moral discernment.
In a word, the great end is to awaken the soul, to excite and cherish the spiritual life.
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