SRSE is associated with high mortality and morbidity, which place a high burden on healthcare resources. Projections based upon the findings of this study suggest an estimated 25,821-41,959 cases of SRSE may occur in the US each year, but more in-depth studies are required.

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TEACHING is a duty imposed on the disciples of Christ by the great commission: "Go ye and make disciples of all the nations, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you." The teacher was one of the ministers of the early church. " He gave some to be apostles; and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, unto the building up of the body of Christ." And, surely, if we believe that our religion has a rational foundation; if we are the advocates of an intelligent faith: if, as the apostle teaches, a Christian ought to be "ready always to give answer to every man that asketh a reason concerning the hope that is in him," we must believe that in some place, at some time, in some way, definite, consecutive, systematic instruction must be imparted. As advocates of Christianity we must teach, because we accept a book, or rather a collection of religious literature, as our rule of faith and practice. If we accepted any creed formulated by a church council, or any catechism prepared by a set of ecclesiastical teachers, as having final authority, our task of teaching would be simpler than it now is. But since we, as Protestants, demand that all creeds or confessions of faith shall be compared with the teaching of certain Holy Scriptures, and since we give to every man the right of individual judgment in passing upon the results of this comparison, we are in duty bound to give to those who are to pass sentence ample instruction in the Scriptures which must form the standard of judgment. While the acceptance of the Bible as a standard of faith and practice lays on us the obligation to teach, that obligation is 287