Sonnet

THE BIBLE AS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION. It is to be feared that notwithstanding our age is boasted of as pre-eminently the age of education, in its cold neglect of the Bible it is abandoning one of the prime factors in education. "Not long ago," says an eastern writer, " An instructor of youth tried an experiment. He wanted to find out how much (or how little) the average American college student of these days knows about the Bible. To ninety-six such students he gave nine simple questions, to be answered off-hand and in writing. He explained to them his object and promised not to show their answers to anybody. This was the question paper:

1. What is the Pentateuch?
2. What is the higher criticism of the Scriptures?
3. Does the book of Jude belong to the New Testament or to the Old?
4. Name one of the patriarchs of the Old Testament.
5. Name one of the judges of the Old Testament.
6. Name three of the kings of Israel.
7. Name three prophets.
8. Give one of the beatitudes.
9. Quote a verse from the letter to the Romans. In a letter to the Christian Advocate he reports the result of the experiment. Eight of the ninety-six students answered all the questions correctly; thirteen answered eight of them, eleven answered seven, five answered six, nine answered five, twelve answered four, eleven answered three, thirteen answered two,