Show WITHOUT RELIGIOUS instruction AMERICANS contribute millions to rend bend the gospel or what they suppose to be F ucb puch to the heathen heat lien but I 1 live I 1 ve under a system of laws and a social order the practical effect of which ia 13 to deprive a large proper tiou of their own children of religious instruction of any kind the absurdity of such a condition over towers every other feature of it speaking in relation to it the new york school journal says gays I 1 the religious bodies in the state of new york are emphasizing the distinction between sectarianism and religion and are unanimous in their opinion that sectarianism in every form should he be excluded from the public schoon schools but bitt they are speed agreed that the state for its own sake should instruct children in reverence for god as the basis of morals it is a fact that more than one third of the school population in the stae receive no religious instruction of any kind it is ia a necessity that these children should be instructed in ia morals but how can they be since the hight highest legal authority has decided that neither the reading of the bible nor or the repeating of prayers can form any parl pan of school exercises or be regulated by school discipline if the beli belief efin in the existence of god is at the basis of true morality and the doctrine of theism cannot be taught in our schools how can our children be instructed so as to become good this is a conundrum but the relief belief that even the teaching of morality is not essential seems to be quite general for of the sixty one on school commissioners in this state thirty six report that no instruction in morality is required in the schools under their care with slow moving but none the less leas irresistible force the conviction convection will come over the american nation that not all the elements of such an education as is required to make good citizens is embraced 0 a its ite school system of which it has boasted so much patriotic thinkers feel a deep concern over the future prospect relating to this subject and even the most sanguine optimist finds fillds it difficult to view with cheerful confidence the accumulating results of an experience which proves that mauls mans intellectual faculties may soar to the loftiest loft iest test heights while his mom moral nature is sinking to the lowest depths the american system of education is lacking vitel AOL elements |