Show PRAYER IN SCHOOL the pioche record expresses gre great at indignation at the fact that the gentleman who teaches the pill public school down at panaca is in the habit of closing his school with prayer this pra practice atice of the panaca pedagogue which undoubtedly corresponds with the sentiments of the pupils parents aroused the ire of the liberal pioche poltroon who sees in it a grave danger forthe for the existence and liberties of the state slate of nevada sa says ys he be this is a violation of the laws of nevada and lid should the tile county superintendent of schools hear of it he would most certainly annual the certificate of said kaid individual as a teacher many hard stories are told of tho the people of nevada many of them most likely exaggerated B but ut that the laws of th the e silver state should prohibit the closing of school exercises with prayer is more than we can believe we understand tb that at the laws of our western neighbor exclude denominational teachings and sectarian influences from the public schools making public education secular as it is called wo we do not want to enter here into an argument whether or not it be desirable and advisable to exclude the moralizing moral izing influences of religion from the instruction of the future citizens and lawgivers law givers of a state but one thing appears certain to us that the closius of school with prayer ia is something entirely independent of of denominational or sectarian teaching something higher than the barriers of individual creeds inasmuch ch as it unites the children in their most impressible stage of development in the love of the one ono common father and arid is calculate e to imbue their young hearts with that sense of common brotherhood which i is the foundation of all society arl and state instead of denouncing the teacher at pal panaca lacal the editor of the mccord would servo serve tho the true on ends of education the interests of the state and the welfare of society much better by approving the closing of schools by prayer and recommending this good custom to all the schools where it is nut not practiced but what really exasperates the record man ii the fact that the teacher at panaca ia one of those odious cormons mormons Mor mons were it a methodist episcopalian san or any any other alian eria n er r the matter would be different for a mormon community however to have a mormon teacher that is the grievance with the pioche editor hence this present denunciation as malicious and uncalled for as various previous ones |