To postpone the work of religious education until preparatory school and college is as rash as it is foolish. ‘Let a child wait until he is grown and then choose his own religion,’ said an English statesman in the hearing of Coleridge. Coleridge made no reply, but led the speaker out into his garden. ‘Look around upon the bare ground’ he said quietly: ‘I have decided not to put out any flowers and vegetables this year, but to wait till August and let the garden decide for itself whether it prefers weeds or strawberries.’
From Catechetics by the Lutheran Churchman Michael Reu, (1869-1943)
G. Mark Sumpter
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