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a prophet — an angel. Lucifer, on the contrary, from an angel became a devil, because he burned not with God's love, but only shone with His splendor. Mind education is but a means toward the education of the heart, for what will a world of knowledge profit a man if he have not religion, if he love not his soul? Religion is an integral part of every perfect system of education. Not that we love science less, but religion more. Let no squeamish scruple bar to us the treasure house of pagan literature— of secular science and art. St. Paul, in his Epistle, quotes from the pagan Euripides and the poet Menander. Secular learning, of itself well worth study and research, enables us besides to snatch the sword from the enemies of religion and fight them with their own weapons. As did the Israelites to the Egyptians of old — we, by divine right, invade the realms of worldly wisdom and appropriate whatever we find of sterling worth or golden truth. None the less we maintain that education without religion is essentially imperfect, for when science leads to its highest attained point it is religion's function to become guide on and up to the very throne of God. To separate religion and science is to rob religion of her noblest ally, and put a dangerous weapon in irresponsible hands with no instruction as to its use. Such a system is a crime against the individual and the community. Each individual has an inborn right to the whole truth, but this system hides from him its better half. He studies a geography, for instance, from whose pages are cancelled the names or true significance of Bethlehem, Jeru-