Show THE BIBLE EXCLUDED FROM THE SCHOOLS A now FEW days ago the supreme court of wisconsin rendered a decision the effect of which is to prohibit the reading of the bible in the public schools of that state following is a quotation from the opinion some of the most valuable instruction a person can receive maybe may be derived from reading r alone aion w without any an y comment or exposition ex ton of 0 the question therefore the question fuestion seems to narrow down to this th s Is the reading of the bible in the public schools not merely selected passages but the whole of it owl sectarian arlan instruction of the pupils in view of the facts already mentioned that the bible contains numerous doctrinal passages upon some of which the peculiar creed ofal moot every religious sect is based and that such passages may reasonably be understood to inculcate the doctrines predicated upon them an affirmative answer to the question seems unavoidable any gaun pupil af or I 1 ordinary intelligence who listens to the reading of doctrinal portions of the bible will be more or less instructed ted thereby in the doot doctrines rides of the divin divinity itly of jesus christ the eternal punishment of the wicked the authority of the priesthood the binding force of the efficacy effi capy of the sacraments and many i other conflicting sectarian doctrines 11 among the protestant wisconsin much indignation is 18 expressed over this remarkable decision but it is of course in line with the policy of the Catho catholic ild church it is certainly a remarkable innovation upon what to te deemed to be the law in all or nearly all the other states in the union |