The young man or woman of twenty or twenty-two should be prepared to select a life-work, and the special training needed can be received in a training school, which in Christian education will be for Christian workers. Such a school will be necessary; for the education thus outlined, extending from infancy over twenty years, can not fail to develop a character which chooses _Christian work_ as the life occupation. A short training in a higher institution, which in character is _a school of the prophets_, should so round out the nature already forming that the young person goes out an ambassador for Christ, willing to be used in any capacity by the Commander of the heavenly host, whether it be on the farm, at the carpenter’s bench, or in the pulpit; for his soul is knit to the King of heaven, as was David’s to Jonathan’s. Such a student is prepared for active service, either on earth or in the kingdom of our God; for he is one with the Father and his Son. “Comenius divided the first twenty-four years of life into four periods, to each of which he would assign a special school, thus:— “1. For infancy, the school should be the mother’s knee. “2. For childhood the school should be the vernacular school. “3. For boyhood, the Latin school or gymnasium. “4. For youth, the university and travel. “A mother should exist in every house, a vernacular school in every hamlet and village, a gymnasium in every city, and a university in every kingdom or in every province.... The mother and the vernacular school embrace all the young of both sexes. The Latin school gives a more thorough education to those who aspire higher than the workshop; while the university trains up the teachers and the learned men of the future, that our churches, schools, and states may never lack suitable leaders.” In the system known as Christian education the division is about the same, the years of student life extending perhaps to thirty instead of twenty-four, with this division: the first ten years are spent in the home school; from ten to fifteen in the church school; from fifteen to twenty in the industrial school, and the years from twenty to twenty-five or even thirty are devoted to study and active work in the training school for workers. [Sidenote: Should Protestants educate?] The time now is when those who are true Protestants _will_ demand Christian education, and when no sacrifice will be considered too great for the accomplishment of that object. The prophecy of Zechariah, recorded in the ninth chapter, gives the words of God concerning the contest to take place near the close of time between the sons of Greece and the sons of Zion. “Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; when I have bent Judah for Me, filled the bow with Ephraim, AND RAISED UP THY SONS, O Zion, AGAINST THY SONS, O GREECE.”