There is nothing unlawful or wrong in helping students with their
personal difficulties, religious or otherwise, if this is done outside
the classroom and outside of school hours. On the other hand, it is a
very serious thing indeed to fail to help a human being who needs help.
The rationalizing of faith is not so insuperable a difficulty as it
appears to be when one first faces it. There are a number of books
dealing with the question, and these Mr. Horne might have found and
read, both for his own sake and for Donald’s. The whole structure of
civilization is built on faith, and religious faith is but a higher form
of that which children have in their parents or pupils in teachers.