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Show REEIOTOTJS INSTRUCTION. Protestant Clergyman Says the Sunday Sun-day School is Inadequate. It is a good sign that the more intelligent intel-ligent and thoughtful Protestant ministers min-isters are beginning to recognize the importance of religious instruction as a part of school education. Dr. Taylor, one of the leading ministers min-isters of Rochester, startled his congregation congre-gation by saying In his Thanksgiving sermon as follows: "The Roman Catholic Church hay recognized her responsibility for the religious re-ligious education of the young thrown upon her by the separation of church and state. The Protestant church, it seems to me, never has, or, at best, but very inadequately. It has no system that is deserving of the name. ' The whole matter of the religious education of children is in chaos. The Sunday school, speaking generally, is the only response to this immense and unspeakably unspeak-ably important demand. It Is doing a great work, and is one of the strongest bulwarks of religion that we have. But its limitations are obvious," , The doctor does not favor parochial or denominational schools as a sohi-) tion of the problem. "But," he asks, "is it a folish question to ask if it be an utter impossibility that some arrangement ar-rangement should be made by which, without cost to the public, .but entirely at the expense of the church, our children chil-dren in the schools, as part of their school course, could receive such religious re-ligious .instructions as. their parents desire for them?" When the parents of the millions of children who attend the public schools agree on the necessity of religious instruction, in-struction, they will find some way to agree on the method of imparting it. Freeman's Journal, |