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CHRISTIAN NURTURE
NURTURE
BY
HORACE BUSHNELL
INTRODUCTION BY
LUTHER A. WEIGLE
STERLING PROFESSOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LIBRARY
1724
BV1475 BY 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY MARY A. BUSHNELL
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY DOTHA BUSHNELL HILLYER
Reprinted by Yale University Press
November, 1947
April, 1950
June, 1953
March, 1960
CONTENTS
PART I-THE DOCTRINE
I. WHAT CHRISTIAN NURTURE IS
The true idea of Christian education is: That the child is to grow
up a Christian, and never know himself as being otherwise
This principle is not to be judged untrue or impracticable because
it is but imperfectly realized in our present experience.
I. The argument from human evidence.
1. The moral incongruity of the contrary supposition: That chil-
dren are to grow up in sin, to be converted when they come
to the age of maturity
2. A Christian education based upon the contrary supposition
differs little from an unchristian education, and may do
actual harm.
3. The reasonableness of the hope of Christian parents to see their
children grow up in piety.
4. Assuming the corruption of human nature, it is wisest to under-
take the remedy at once. It is never too early for good to
be communicated. The Spirit of truth need not wait for
the child's ability intellectually to understand
The principle here proposed does not assume the radical good- ness of human nature, or conceive the work of Christian education to be the mere educing of that goodness
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5. The child's true and loving submission to parental authority
involves the dawn within him of a new life.
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6. Children have been so trained as never to remember the time
when they began to be religious
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7. The organic connection, as regards character, between parent
and child, makes it natural to expect that the faith of the
one will be propagated in the other
The mistake of believing that this connection is effective for
evil and not for good.