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Surely no material good constitutes the great end of education. What then is it? I answer without hesitation: The great ultimate end of education is to fit man Claims of the Bible. 83 for accomplishing, to some good degree, the end of his being. Again the inquiry arises, " What is the chief end of man ? " The answer to this question has been settled for at least two hundred years: "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. " I shall attempt no elaborate exposition of this defi- nition. All, however, will at once acknowledge that man most effectually accomplishes the great end of his being, most fully glorifies God and enjoys him, when he is most completely obedient in heart and life to that law \vhich enjoins love to God and love to man, when he is most nearly conformed to God in his moral character, and when being qualified there- for, he accomplishes the most in advancing the highest well-being of his fellow-men. In just so far as a man is eminently good and mighty in doing good, in so far does he accomplish the chief end of his being. All true education contemplates these ultimate ends and is adapted to secure them. Its special objects subordinate to this great end

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