Show WILL REAR BEAR CHILD ON AGNOSTIC LINES Cincinnati Cor Cur American From all knowledge of prayer and praise as Christians know them and d andall dan an all Christian influence which so 80 many man regard the one elevating e influence in inthe Inthe inthe the world orld a tendu baby bab girl Sirl of Cin Cincinnati Cm is hi to be raised apart Her wondering baby bab eye eyes have not yet et looked upon the light of or this w wrid rid I for a fortnight and the future troubles of her existence are to I human eye but it is h certain that she he hein will in have to encounter and ov cn r me methem them without the sustaining aid al l of oC Christian faith Her parents parent who are re have hae so decided And their tb ir decision has slId called n a 1 cry of from froni parents throughout th the e country n f have been written to Air a aft Mrs Charles S Sparks the pau of th lh child pointing out what the M h writers declare la in the error of raising rai a child hUd without the mellowing influence curs ence of prayer and Christian communion ion They The have de that the th hell boIl holiest est st happiest and ten ler st t a auf of nina man or woman art arc tho those thoe e cf ot t child childhood childhood hood when ben the mother moth r Hondin aloe the little head hed cC f wr er kneeling eling kR child taught tau ht it the first prayers But hut the protests prote ts have hae refused ref to move the parents who aho bo declare that there id in no hereafter Charles Charie S Sparks is an attorney in inthis inthis this city Hi His H wife is i hut IS 12 years YenI old oklAnd And what has ban seemed remarkable to many Is hi the fact tact that she Nhe was raised In strictest Christian teaching tea chin Her grandfather was waa the Rev Charles Williams one of or the founders of the Congregational Con church who died more than half ball a century ago on the Isle of Man lan But since her marriage marria e she S lisa lias departed from the teachings of be her childhood stud and ad desi de lue tree that she has ha renounced all faith in the Bible My ly husband nd and I 1 have read the t I Bible through several times tim is her statement and have haf studied its Ita I chronological history the history of the church hurch its organization and what brought it Ito into existence And we ee e eha I have ha e come conis to be She declares that her child will be he besent besent sent when old enough to the Liberal t j university at Ore This Thle is isa Isa isa a coeducational institution which teach everything except ex Pt religion It Its eat Is Je J E Hoosier a d its secretary Pearl W Geer And In the meantime Mrs Mr Specks Sparks declares declare Char Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte lotte will not be De showed allowed wed to attend any kindergarten or ot school where she will willbe willbe be taught tau bt religion A As she p it She shah hall not wot be M allowed to Lords IonI prayer It is If useless eJea u It rev re mind 09 of temptation evil death and pa r It brings no happl happi S She not attend a t nd kindergarten where prayers are repeated or in I which her mind shall be dwarfed by hy singing foolish to fo lish and meaningless songs to Him on high nor shall she have I playmates who do these things She shall be taught g to be generous I and a kind to others h to do o all aS she can canto canto to make others happy to pity those who aho ho blindly follow the teachings t of ot the ignorant dead to love the truth to tobe tobe tobe be open hearted and frank not to practice deceit to love the beautiful In art and in nature to worship the truth to hurt the feelings of no human buman I being intentionally to do all the good that she may m so that she wilt will not need a tombstone to remind those these who follow after that she once lived and whenever Vi nature calls for Cor a rearrange rearrangement ment iii nt of the elements of which her herb b body is composed and which give it life and action to surrender unflinchingly bigly without fear of punishment or hope hepe reward |