Public Education

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1905

THE annual circular on Public Education, issued by the National Reform Association, contains the following paragraph:—

The past year has witnessed several important local conflict. One of these was in Washington, D. C., where the ministers of one important section of the Protestant church took sides against all religious exercises or instruction in the schoolroom, employing arguments which, pressed to their logical conclusion, would sweep away every Christian feature of our civil institutions.

It is plain enough that the campaign over the question of religious instruction in the public schools of this city was one of the “important local conflicts” of the year, and it is probable that the same battle will need to be fought again and again. There is a determined effort to reverse the principles upon which this government was founded.