THE POPULAR SCIZ MONTHLY, 



the i :. Persecution was the iw k* experience of those who 



he new faith. During the . tier \\ - the strv. 

 stant and absorbing The children wore 

 ssarily kept at home and _ the simple forms of the new 



: - to heathen schools for instruction in reading and 



_ s prac:. inued until persecution had relaxed its 



_ tf p serf! :o allow some r on upon the new religion as 



a bo lung With this n aw the sup- 



posed disc; : C9 mity was something purely spiritual and 



heavenlv . . _ i concern with earthlv affav - The error hero, 



-5 tatai. A misunderstood Christianitv led men 

 as: j d multiplied sc: :_e race. With tbt _ th of this 



rei _ becan Detract the svertl in the faith they 



were about U :. During the firs! entury a. p., institi. 



catechumens, or sehc b f . aching Christianity, were established. 

 The heathen convert* si firsl grown pen - .ttd were taught 



nothing but the print: les of the new religion ; aO other training they 

 most receiTe from the heathen schools. Christianity i n to train I 

 heaven, aol for earth. Tl of the m red in Palestine. 



Constantinople, and Route. Education was : : s\ eeial f the 



men, who had forsaken all worldly inter ests, and education c :od 

 wholly in such instruction as would fit for the duties of the order. 



With further ad vane _ .eh out overall d 



partments of life. Now, for the first time, leading men among the 

 ristians demanded that the children should be taken from the 

 - hools and receive ail their education at the hsa If f Chr> 

 That the cateci -thools made no break with heathen- 



nlain. Ciement was a leader of these schools at Alexandria 

 from 1 B a. r. He ^as master of classical training, and brought his 

 learning to the service of the . ~ : _:on. He felt no pronoune 

 opposition to heathenism, but belie veti uld illu- and advan 



Christianity. E s, "Mosaic law and h n philosophy do not 



tjd in opposition to one another, but are related as parts of one 

 troth; both prepare, but in differec* tianity." The nt 



force, he :. ra irresistiblj working in contrary direction. A 



few vears from the death of Clement the new religion announce its 

 direct and uncompromising host lity to heathenism and all forms of 

 heathen education. There was war to the death against everyth: _ 

 connected with Greece and Rome. Education must train for heaven 

 and for nc - _ By imperial order the schools of philosophy 



sed, 5*29 a. d. Xo more were children to be suckled in a creed 

 outworn, no more could one '"have sight of Prote sang from the 



sea or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.** From the fourth to 

 the sixth century heathen culture was trampled out by the march of 

 the barbarians over the empire. 



To estimate in any sense justly the course of events through th 



