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but from the hand of those who give it in God's name because it is good, because God who made the things of knowledge, and made men's hearts and minds to know, would have us use those minds, and gain the interest and enjoyment and wisdom which true knowledge rightly given always brings; for "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."[1]
The preciousness of Discipline when we see God's Holy Hand in the discipline, the preciousness of Knowledge when we see in it a schooling by God in things which at the bottom of them are of God, these are the truths which we have reached: we have seen that these are the secrets of all true authority, and true education; we have claimed for Christian Schools that these are their double foundation: we have seen too how these should mould the homes of Christian children. But they have their word of counsel for every life and every soul. Are we not all our lives under discipline? and what is life but a time allowed us to grow in knowledge and increase in wisdom?[2] Under discipline we must be, some of it, as we think, just, some of it unjust or seeming so: truths and doctrines checking our thoughts; rules checking our wishes; the wills of others, their selfishness or their necessities or their comfort hampering and limiting us, want of money or health or time hindering
