From the previous year's Cono Yearbook, 1968
The headlights of a car split the darkness. They zoom down a straight, flat, Iowa road – it is the middle of the night.
They climb a small upgrade. Ahead is a sign. It says . . . “Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go” . . . Cono Christian School.
Inside the motley cluster of buildings children sleep. In the morning they will rise and eat breakfast. Other children will enter the building later and together they will all attend school. But it will be different from other schools – the same in some ways, but very different in others.
These children will receive a Christian education.
Just what is this Christian education? Is it praying before classes? Is it reciting scripture and the Westminster Catechism at breakfast? Is it studying the Bible?
All these things contribute to a Christian education, but what is a Christian education?
It is learning to live and think in a Christian way. It is finding out the why – why the scripture – why the Catechism – why the Christian way of life. It is looking inside yourself – seeing yourself as you are – discovering your motives, distinguishing between your wants and your needs. It is looking outside yourself, seeing others as they are, learning to care for their wants and needs. It is seeing God’s creation in the light of the gospel – seeing everything in the light of the gospel. It is teaching little children and young adults all they need now and all they will ever need to know.
It is training up a child in the way he should go.
