Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1905

ACCORDING to the Christian Statesman, religious exercises in the public schools, including the reading of Scripture, are a feature of the public educational system in the great majority of the States of the Union. “The Bible,” it says, “is daily read in the schools of Philadelphia and New York and of all our Eastern cities. According to the latest report of the superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania, the Bible is regularly read in more than 18,000 of the 23,000 schools of the State. Moreover, in thirty-five States of the Union the same is true, in less or greater degree, and in nearly all of these the legality of the use of the Bible has been upheld by important judicial decisions. In only some six States have decisions adverse to the Bible been given either by supreme courts or by superintendents of education, and earnest efforts are in progress to secure the reversal of these.”