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Show GROWING SPIRIT OF TOLERATION Hebrews Co-operate in Bible -ii Reading in Public Schools. p GOOD DONE IN CAMPS Saloons and Dance Hall fc; Close and Justice Court p.'. Out of Business. Chicago, Jurfe 24 . "Co-operation by - V Protestant. Catholic and Jew in tbe H matter of Bible reading in the public - - V!v schools Is an Indication of the grow- H I ing spirit of brotherly regard and tol- L . . eration." said Mayron Lawarance, sec- H I retary of the International Sunday 1 . ' School association at the session of I I the fourteenth triennial conventional . ' here today. "This Is a great step forward In the study and recognition of the Bible. Encouragement of the reading in public of those portions of the Bible agreed on by all Is the aim . I of such co-operation 'Perhaps one of the mo6t algnifl cant adanees that has been made in Sunday school work Is that of rec- ; I ognizing the church and the Sunday 1 school in the regular work of the day school," said Mr. Lawarance f "The different religious bodies hav I apparently, been taking it for grant- j I ed that there Is no common ground j j of co-operation In the matter of Bible study, hut such is not the fact and j w e have found that our fears that I reconciliation and co-operation in this j work were impossible were ground f. I j less Surely, the giving of credits In j I public school for Bible study done In the churches Is a new thing to most I of us and opens up possibilities we had never dreamed of " 1 Team Work of Schools. In Colorado and North Dakota hearty tenm work betwen the pub He school teachers' associations and the Sunday school teachers' associa tlons. declared Mr Lawarance. is pro ' jectel In the plans under way in those states, j The organization of Sunday school I In Arizona has affected the closing I of many saloons and public danc , halls in mining tow ns, according to a report today by the Rev v. C. Mer ritt of Claremoht, Cal . to the con i vention. m I "Previous to tie (HPftnbltMS ' j I the Sunday schoi r tow said j I Dr Merritt. "the. v.-re sevi, sa j loons and three dance halls In thre 1 j ' irs four saloons and all th danc I halls closed There has not been a I public dance there in a year, noi I shooting up of the tow n for months, the justice court is about out of bnsl , ness. and It is all due to tbe Sunda school." i Dr. Merritt urged greater support I for the work in the southwestern "Mah of our schools among the sH dry farmers In the desert country constitute the only systematic organ-ized organ-ized religious services they have." j iH |