The Disciplines of Life Author:V Raymond Edman Ours is an undisciplined age. The old disciplines are breaking odwn, and the foundations of society appear to be crumbling. The discipline of the home seems to be vanishing in the new psychology which teaches: parents obey your children! The discipline of the schoolroom is becoming anathema, according to the so-called Progressive Education, l... more »est the personality of the child be thwarted by the imposition of a will higher than his own. The old academic "disciplines": mathematics, ancient language, grammar, are being ignored as obsolete and unimportant. Above all, the discipline of divine grace is derided as legalism or is entriely unknown to a generation that is largely illiterate in the Scriptures. We need the rugged strength of Christian character that can come only from discipline: the discipline of spirit, of mind, of body, of society. Otherwise, the home will lose its heart as well as its hearth, the schoolroom its strength, the textbooks their exactness, the Scriptures their sanction. Here are some disciplines of the life presented to Wheaton's "brave sons and daughters true," that they be sturdy citizens of the Red, White and Blue, and especially, good soldiers of the Crimson Cross. I trust that the Disciplines will be helpful to you.« less