Show EXCLtSIOX OF THE BIDLE THE decision of the Supreme Com of Wisconsin excludingtlie Bible from the public schools tins crt I furore throughoutlthe domain Amcricanjaurnalim TlTedivide of opinion is ninarkable for IU equalness and for the cogency of the reasoning put forth to sustain each side Wo subjoin n few extract from leading Journals which tat upon the decision The tollowlng i frpmtbeVot a Catholic organ aui suggests some of the arguments use Inilie interest of that t to bring about the decision The victory is no Wowto tbQBIbJ or to religion I Is rather conquest of the Golden Rule over unchriitUn zeal and rancor I drive the bigot out of tbe publc school I toll the downfall of nftyynars o IntermlUen trrMXUIJonv lisa whip drop from the hand of the zealot and the pariah chiLl V emancipated Out goes cant outgoes hypocrisy with fetich and fraud its Blbllolatry and its nonsectarian non-sectarian proselytism The rhlladelphia American 41 I journal considerable influence I on 4iblp question and Republican in pulitics cxprcea the folluwiug views upon this subject So one who reads the Biblo without with-out ecclesU lical prepasscsklons wi fall Into any narrow euimate of its worth in education I Is no more a church book than it in a state book ami hard work enough the ecclcsizs test tes-t havoin their attempt to narrow It down Iqtn beinff merely the former In Ilia case of tho Old Testament Hpecl a Iy they lim o got rid cf its plain uiMtilnjr by all kinds of allegorizing and by assigning entirely unbutorlca sense to its own terms I is a scry serious lots to the training good cili ZIIH when ouch a book Ii not only remanded to urn i > jnday chool but lot to such iiitBrpniaUon as thoee curroundlnpj naturally anggea Apartfrom itsdirect u ca iu touching the great lessons of ua tional and social ethic in tho mot efTective way the Bible han edo mJonal value that belongs to no otbo book in its effects in elevating th vnole tofu ot thought by bringing it I into vital relations to background of the Infinite and the eternal nhich Implied i the existence and the polity of tbo state no less nun the cur That the American slito lan l-an instilalion of a purely secular character which di < pon es with that bcek roiml is is very modern notion which W no Ntnctiiu in the teaching of iu greatest statemen or ius own practice Even JifTerMm caiifesAcd so much when he fi > oko of tremblDg for his country when conteiiipUtlaj the lustitutian orslivcry he semen bored that God I Just Modern R ulariats have undertaken to MM nsLJo th traditions of the nation in this respect and triey will bale more hot snjjwrt from no one than from those ecclesiastics who jdesiro to elevate tho cbrirch by depressing the state In thii very case I I r tho instance of the party among the Ito manCatholic who uh to see the slate deprived of lha management oft of-t school system by provoking a general revolt of all religious people against the secularized and atheb IL public schooU that Ibis dccls on ha been rendered Wo ay the party among the Iloman Catholio tot there are a great many AmerIcan Caiholics who hava no Bympathj with such alms and methods of procedure pro-cedure rue The Detroit Triune argue thus against tho Hen that the BIble i a tarn bi As I pnwtlol qneMlon the rnatte I nf thus rraclng Iso Plblo I nohp daily important became we ppre bend there i comparatively lillle of I one liut the aMertions and rca Mmlags in this written opinions off of-f the judge an somewhat extiaordl nary and are likely to challenged In i many quarters 3 wholly Iniufllcien I and unsatisfactory Theirfoundation I lsssitlonii l that tbo Bible la tfclarUn bk h that a bet Will that b conceded or alleged among the van Vws religloiw lcnomlnntlon 7 Sects rian It defined by Webster to bs peculiar pe-culiar to n N But toe Bible i peenltar to no ect It is tho one common mon book of them all Front Iu sacred p gm thy Inch To its declarations they refer as tho end of all controversy contro-versy To I they go for comfort and I coJioUliou In time of deepen sorrow aud derive raat tore of relief From lit they Battier courage and hope when 1 I dhshenrtsned ire tbe low oncoming of that Ungdom for rtilch they prY and trait I Is the soaco and may of the dyinj hiKirainocg the mullituileio every hade and form of religinno b iwf III the ono common ble < ei word of Gad for them all low can Itt It-t n b peculiar a sect The New Xor Thrice the leading nVj5w > nur > cigars of this country ansi a journal ol great ability and Influence argues on the other side as follows UTie sphit of the constitution of Uiwonin with rr > r > nl to public in tem and to the alnoluto separation separa-tion of church and Sato Is the spirit o almon lon > iuton and of a Vinencan legislation The forcing upon tb children of ucwllhng parents urtiat those parenli regard as mctarian inntniction b distinctly hosjilo to hit pirlt ir tho public jchool inenlciite the secarian in tractiorT7 by Ihe majority the mfnarltr have a rig lit t Jeniin J a sbaro of the school food fir tbo inculcation of Ibo b larnn instruction favored by them e pH The only rucarij id which ill demand can logmilly b refuted H by omUtlng alt religious Insnnietluii in cominiuklM in which there la a division of opinion an to nrlial religious Instructionij proper to b given Iu most coroiauuilhn this would moon tat poblia losliuciloa must b a1 soiuleiy secular Tb supreme court o Wi > con nlixiUl < I down tLo do nne by which alono tbo coalmen Kchoul system can b maintained In Iti Integrity and I b a doctrine thin will commend Itself tn nil AmerIcans who do Dt pcrmiftheir sectarian zeal ran z to Interfere Iu the duties of good I The New York JndependcTil I religious journal nOnseCtarian In character also uphol the decision thuf T thufT Uio ground taken by the court if I that tho reading of l nl James ser fjnncf lueTJlble in the pubKc schools whether as 1 mom o instruction or 3 nucohnllpl Is a U respects Calbollci who do no accept this ser ion correct to introduce a sectarian took Into these sol as really as t he Douay version of the Bible which bo Cathrllcs do accept were thus nseU THi is tlTepitbcf the principln aiddoTrn tn tbU declsnaiid yo think it to b entirely csrrectj endB r a principle lust as applicable in Ihls State as i I in Wisconsin Tho simple sim-ple truth b that our public school Ylem sustained by general taxation and regnlatcd by Stab authority should conQna iUelfi I exclnIvcly t the secular of JfnI1ey slar sphere Instruction and leave all questions relating to religious Instruction and religious worship solotely untouched There I n other ground that Is constant with oar political feystem or with equity between different religious cos Pro testanui rrUVa a grave inUtska In deahng with this question when they claim UiemMjUes whatlhey deny j t CalhoUoj Let the Sa l tire a j public sol system for secular pur pose and stop there Let religion Instruction b otherwIse provided for1 1Thte Chicago JiilcrOcean treats tbe ul ed in the following strain I II reena a nrjost and Illiberal ° to I exclude the oration of Paul upon Mara Hill from tho textbook Upo1 free schools as to exclude a description of the death of Socrates or anoxtracti from Cicero against Cline no llglon apart it Is I needful that a child should learn something about the history his-tory of goose or Greece I is a need fnltbatrnrshonld hilton whoChrf tht bhol1 Jow Crt said it is that ho cue and wt ho alt a 10 should know who Colurnboi was and what ho did For if Christ had not been Uolnmbus never would have oailedinquest 1 ot regions 10 cnr to Christianity Nor does the fact of teaching the history of Christ nccess tate the tisicilin of hUdiInIty We tell the scholar what the inollva of Columbus lumbus was wo leo him Judge ot the tiidom of lbs mole We place an extract from the IlncJo In the hands of a youth MO direct his attn lion to the eloquence of 1U tone n e leo him judge in after years as to thin soundness of tie philosophy T exclude tlitt Bible ai a whole in each and all of its parts to prohibit allK Lbs sublime poetry cf Job the pastoral oral poetry of the Book of fluSh the elegant narrative of Esther the never oratory of Uio address to the Areopag UCM the vlmple leanly of the Sermon on tho Mount to the youth of lists republic public seems to us to b a crime against the liberalism of tho ageI The JZlening l itconrui givi3 the following partly by way ofexpljua tonThe The only ground upon which the friends of tho schools C object to lbs intrusion of tcctarians I tho grvtuni that the schools are ioniectarian AH the Supreme Court points ont the doctrinal passages in the Biblo arc sectarian and tho use of the Uiblo asa as-a whole u a text book in the tcbooU therefore inadmissible Tno opinion of Justice Lyon contains tile foil wig distinction diticion Ttita conclusion dee not banIsh from tee dltc stol such text boots as a I foooded upon the fundamental teachlnjrio the DIe or Khich coulalaexuacuicre from lucre 1 much In ILe lists which can not Juttly tit ehiriucncj lecmlin ant there can le no nlid oljtction to the me of such later ta ihe secular IDle Ion or the ropilt Much of 1 h 0 pat historical and literary talnc wInch I hlt6ra hlclf maybe thus ntilllrf vlihoDl viohuloglheroDtlitu I lull rrt > hlbition I nayalio bemllited t iDCcleate good morals ttial 1 oar Julie t each olber whteh may and osbt to be licnluttd by the djllncl tchsolL I The clause in the Wbconsln con 1 stltuUon under islets the decisIon was given provides that No sec tartan instruction shall to l allowed Iu the public sciiools of the SInk Practically nil the Protiitant de nomlnalious favored hut reading of King James version of thu IHbl in the schools but opposed the readIng read-Ing of the Dauay > Catholic vertlon Hence the question i mainly one between 1roujstantisni and Catholl cism and is likely to become 1 vita Uue in American politic Amcren pll |