Show RELIGIOUS TEACHING IN SCHOOLS t t- t Dr Lyman Abbott made an n address to a select company of teachers the tho other day clay in iii New Y York oik Li Ll which he took the ground that religious teach- teach should accompany a all studies in our schools Among other things he ho said si I do not want religion added to education but the teaching ing of everything 1 so 0 that it leads men to realize how tho the Eternal is shaping human nature This is true scholarship and and t this lis is the spirit of reU re- re U ligion gion 5 5 Certainly the wisdom and goodness of of God make a theme that is is s always in order in oi or out of school But when churchmen mingle their religious religious religious reli reli- teachings with the studies of a school they arc are so HO prone Irone to become champions for a particular creed that the wisdom of the world has decided that for public schools there should be no direct l' l religious r teaching for two reasons The children o 0 ol the parents arents of all creeds reeds and no creeds meet on common ground in the sch schools and and there ther should be beno beno beno no t religious contentions to est estrange ange them and andt second no especial no-especial especial creed should be impressed up- up pup pupils ls as the only tr true creed There is still allo all ah- o her reason i A profoundly religious man maii or wo woman woman wo- wo vo- vo man do does s not as a rule make an au efficient teacher He Je or sl she sile e has reached the point where the belief s that to save souls is much more important than to fit a child for a life work a this world of sharp Hence Tence the awl who behove believe believe be be- con competitions pe tJ s men an an- women lieve hove in ii free schools say While dV While I e in insisting sting on the moral code being being enl en- en f l' reed in iii school leave to the homes and to the church the work of educating duc ting t tie the lC souls of men And that is the true system for whenever a creed is taught in school the tendency is toward a aless less th r ugh education and this co continuing year ear after ater y year yr r has a direct tendency toward tion To I prove this one n needs ds but to look upon those countries where that system has prevailed for many years ears To teach obedience to righteous law aJi and l to put every pupil pup l on his honor he does t f f make mak him understand the difference between t our institutions our and and all other and thus kindle into active a life the tho germ of patriotism in in his 1 s heart and th then u unfold fold to him the tr treasures that are arc hidden in jt tbt X Bb Book Bock of f Knowledge f will ill make V a a thorough gh man of of 11 him him- un if 1 h he has th elements clements of real manhood manhood man man- hood in I his heart and brain Ar And this is enough for fN the s schools hool to try to accomplish t If he gets gets' wisdom enough ju in iu the schools he will believe in inthe inthe the tho goo goodness s ana mercy J an and wisdom of God andt and t t- t tat at will frame a religion for him |