Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-05-01 | Page 2 | All Creeds Uniting to Gain Better Religious Training for Children

HLL CREEDS UNITING TO GAIN BETTER RELIGIOUS TRAINING FOR CHILDREN NEW YORK, May A Catholic priest, a Jewish Rabbi and representatives representa-tives of six Protestant denominations united at a meeting last night to plead for a more thorough religious education of children. . t The movement had Its inception at the Inter-church conference last fall. It is proposed that the public schools 1 shall so arrange the schedule of studies i that subjects of relative unimportance shall come on Wednesday afternoons, and that such students as desire It, or whose -parents desire It. shall be then free to go to the churches of their choice to receive their religious Instruc- tlon without loss of public school standing. stand-ing. The Rev. Dr. Anson P. Atterbury, pastor of the Parg Presbyterian church, presided, and Father McMillan McMil-lan of the Paullsts was the first speaker. speak-er. . "It Is our Catholic position that religion reli-gion and morality are inseparably Joined," said Father McMUlen. "To us It Is visionary that there can be morality moral-ity without religion. The method suggested sug-gested will help to get rid of that absurd ab-surd Idea that religion is for Sunday alone and has no place in the business day." Coadjutor Bishop 6reer said: "I am a strong and staunch believer in the public schools. I want them pretty much as they are and for what they stand. They do that which they aim to do, and do it fairly well. This Is good as far as it goes, but it does not go for enough. There must be moral and religious training. That is more than a religious influence. "In the last analysis moral training rests on religious training. If the seductive se-ductive evils of our modern life are to be met as they have been met. something some-thing more is necessary than the training train-ing that is given by a secular education. educa-tion. The training of the public school needs to be supplemented by the training train-ing the churches can give." Rabbi H. P. Mendes said he spoke as an Oriental. He thought the three Rs are neglected in secular education, educa-tion, not the three "R's" best known, but rather reverence, righteousness and responsibility." Rev. Dr. Frank Mason North, Methodist; Meth-odist; Rev. Dr. . G. U. Wenner, Lutheran; Luth-eran; Rev. Dr. H. A. Stlllson, Congregationalism Congre-gationalism and Dr. Henry H Sanders. Bapist, spoke. . ; A resolution was passed empowering the committee originally appointed, and under whose auspices the meeting had been called to. continue its work In a corroborative vein.