Show 4 Suffer Little Children to Come ComeI I II I I I Unto Me I IBy V 4 By CARDINAL HAYES Archbishop shop of New York Religious training is a vital in many cases a neglected factor in the upbringing cf children today Since the pUblic schools are not allowed to provide it the responsibility lies with the home and the churches In this article a great churchman gives an eloquent plea that this training be provided V I can conceive ot of no more dangerous to our beloved country countr than the man o or woman who deprive or even fall to to provide tor or the reV re training o of our children V Xo No other source than God himself is sufficient to in the soul of the ch child ld later latel to be t the e citiZen clUzen clU- clU zen the father r or 01 mother all an abIding reverence forand for tor torand and conscIentious obedience to authority forthe for tor the rIghts of ethers athers and a a. proper sense ot of account account- ability for ones one's conduct Religion teaches th the lit lit V child at the dawn of oC reason aU all these virtues which are aro ass too of the hIghest ideals ot of civic aut auty V rh The inhibition to the tt taching of oC religion In our schools on us all the solemn obligation ot of fulfilling this duty outside of the school currl curriculum Surely It is not the mind of the fathers ot of the republic that our boys And ever come to feel that AmerIcan Ideal Is atheistic or agnostic When one reads in a spir t.- t. of gratitude to God the Declaration of I Independence it needs needs' no straInIng of th the Imagination to feel that the framers and signers or of this Immortal charter or of American liberty might well have lUl knelt in prayer er eras as the they gave expression to their reliance on the protection pro pro- ot of divin Providence nce and to their recognition of God as the Creator ot of mankind the Maker ot of laws and the the- the Giver Giver of inalienable human rights If H Washington knelt in pra prayer er at Valle Valley Forge if Lincoln did ll on the eve of Gettysburg It if lt like Coolidge lis immediate predecessors predecessors- has not failed to emphasize the value ot of the to the security of the nation it if Benjamin V coult coul sa Sal to Washington at critical I ment that God governs governs' governs In the affairs of men and that If a sparrow cannot fall without Ills his notice how improbable it was for an empire to rise without aid then It Is far Car from beIng American un-American forus for tor torI I us to urge today the obligation to t tach ach our children chil- chil dren to know love and serve God In this world I that they may be law abiding worthy citizens ot of the state and as followers ot of Christ at the end or of a useful and beneficent life may became ec me more than citizens of the heavenly country countr n namely melY sons or of V God for lor all eternity Surely the American do not intend to close the Book ot of silence Sacred acred tradition and set up science and nature as the norms ot moral character V The youth of a nation is among its greatest and noblest assets for the future and the guardians ot of that invaluable asset ar arthe the elders of each successive successive suc- suc generation The heralds arid hearers bearers to the next generation ot of our revered traditions and priceless priceless price price- less heritage are the babes now in their cradles the little tots now brightening our homes and the cheery boys and girls now thronging our schools It is the heIght of oC s scandal andal d aI the of to fail to turn the faces or of our children toward to to- ward God to join theIr h In pra prayer er to Him and to warm yarm their hearts with the glow o of the love or of their hea heavenly Father V Co Copyright 19 1927 7 Cosmos Syndicate Inc A |