| Show r NOT Ol ANY A Y SECTARIAN r Professional ional theorists In educational matters living down In New York have hayo started a a. movement movement- for tOI or the t es establishment es- es S- S nt of lous' lous Instruction In the public schools And Anti we ve sincerely trust thc they aro are aro doomed to a long siege Ic e of disappointment If It the they could have their wa way they would teach religion to school children but just what religion Is not stated It would not 10 he stated twice nUke alike by byan an any two persons unless thc they belong to the thc same church church and and maybe not nott t then We e should have the children at atone one school impressed with the Idea Ideo that some of them them Individuals Individuals not designated had designated esl had be been n damned from i. i I the tho beginning of or the world and anti that T 1 others have for a 3 like period of or time lime r and eternity been foreordained to individuals unmentioned glory glor Individuals glory again In one school the they would have havo to lay Jay L aside asido their search after a fellowship with the three Rs long enough to tobe be told that unless the they accepted the jt doctrine of free moral agency the they would be bo devoted to everlasting ruin and that without waiting walling for foa the In other formality of judgment school rooms they would learn the tho Quaker doctrine of resistance non while in still others the tho tenets of a ac c militant gospel would woul be the tho burden of the tc texts ts selected We 0 do not see sec an any t reason if the rule be he adopted wh why in localities peopled b by Greeks the doctrine of or the ITchy Holy I Eastern st rn church should hould not be Inculcated and andin andin in iii others the tho views of Rome nomo should not be bo impressed providing pro providing the suggested suggested sug sug- ed scheme were adopted Until this go government shall decide by law lass on the religion which Americans Americans Ameri Amen ris nis of sal salva cans elect as their means menns tion tiomi forbidding all aU others on pain of or death do dondt not t bet be- be 4 devastation and we n t ti it would be a 1 good thing to In Incorporate Incorporate In- In corporate relf religious lous instruction In the public schools Men differ too much on th subject The school house is Just hl bi big enough to provide an education In th essentials of fundamental studies It L is is far tal too small to afford a mastery master of f the the mysteries of the souls soul's salva- salva Let all that come comae of course Give the children religious HOI But do not make mako It a part of or the school work worl The da day of state religion has gone by It had objections enough to to convince a a. former generation that t it was a good thing to abandon Reactionary Re Re- thou thought ht alono alone could send th of men again to so woeful a waste wista of time and endeavor Train 1 the but let the sou soul sout be free ew Yorkers have more than they can can canell ell do providing teachers and school rooms for their pupils To Impose reU religious lous instruction In addition addition ad ad- to the then numberless n other duties would woul lessen th the amount of or goo good work done and would 1 sult even where effective ot l only oily in ml multiplying l tho the number number num- num ber bel of or fanatics And nd there are arc enough of them now I |
