Show BIBLE HAS NO PLACE IN SCHOOLS Brigham H Roberts Says Re Religious Religious Religious Training Should Be Obtained Elsewhere MORMONS FOR EDUCATION INTERESTING TALK AT GRAN GRANITE GRANITE GRANITE ITE MEETING HOUSE In an address delivered at the Granite stake meeting house Fourteenth South and State streets last l t evening Brigham H Roberts Roberto emphatically declared against use of the Bible In the public schools saying that this country had adopted a wise course when it prevented prevent the teaching of religion in this manner Even the daily reading of the Bible he said in sin the schools might cause con confusion confusion confusion fusion and I would not desire my chil children children dren to attend any school where perhaps they might be taught by some one not of my m own faith In the same way I do donot donot donot not blame my Gentile friends fri for or object objecting objecting ing lug to the explanation of biblical passages by Mormon teachers t We should trust to other agencies such as the tile church can furnish to our young in rc ro ligion lon Mr Roberts took for his subject The Tue Mormon View of ot Education and during the h hour ur and ani an a half haIr of his lecture 1500 people listened attentively to his forceful I and eloquent discourse Attitude Misrepresented I IThe The speaker began by stating that the Mormon attitude tl wards education had been misrepresented and the n a prevailed that the th followers of this faith have no settled views in reference to ed education education education I and that on the contrary the be bt belief belief lief was that the leaders of the church desire to keep the people in Ignorance in order to maintain a hold on them themI I The church is friendly to education declared Mr Roberts and the leaders have always had the utmost concern for forthe forthe forthe the of the tile people in this re Joseph Smith said No man can be saved in ignorance I defy d fy the world to produce a passage that stands out strong stronger er for education than these words of ot his Again the prophet said Whatever intelli intelligence intelligence gence a man attains in this life will wili rise with him to the resurrection There Is a wonderful incentive to education in that tha doctrine Our prophet taught that some som something something thing of value could be taken from this life and amI it is that which a man learns Tell me what Incentive greater and nobler than this can be summed up In favor of education A Mormon Axiom The glory of God is intelligence is isa Isa Isa a Mormon axiom If It the world knew that tha this represented our feelings and was a It aspur aspur spur to our ambition along educational lines it would cease to say sa that we desire to keep our people in ignorance Mr Roberts referred to the ministry of the church saying that unlike other churches those who were to lead ant and teach the people were taken from the ranks and placed in their positions with without without without out regard to scholastic attainments He lie said that this was as done because Go s in inspiration Inspiration Inspiration could be given through such men to better advantage than it could through those who have hae spent years in special training God wants what Is said spoken warm from the heart said the tue speaker and not cold lectures as delIvered by the min ministry ministry mm In the Christian churches The people are taught by God and not by bj bythe bythe the wisdom of men as in other churches Brigham Young Progressive Mr Roberts quoted extensively from the works of or Brigham Young to show that thai the great leader favored education anc and was far ahead of his times as to the views he advanced Brigham Young he de Ce declared declared dared favored higher say a ay for teachers and said that we owe more to the teach teachers teachers ers era than we do to the soldiers and there therefore therefore fore they should be pensioned The education of the twentieth cen century century tury tur is different from that to which we WP have been used in that the principle of ol training the mind instead of ot cramming it full of knowledge has been adopted he ho declared Give a man the capacity for or learning tell teU him how to learn and train his hi In Intellect Intellect and the acquirement of knowledge is his own concern This is the modern Idea said Mr Roberts The idea how however however however ever was first advanced by b Brigham Young and now it is being taken up by bythe bythe bythe the leading educators of the land |