Religious Instruction in Public Schools
By Editor
OUR valued contemporary, The Signs of the Times, devoted a full page of a recent issue to a report on the effort to introduce religious instruction into the public schools of this city. Evidently the editor recognized that this is more than a local question, and that the same issue under one form or another, involving the same principles, will have to be met in other places. By the report in another part of this paper, it will be seen that the local interest in this question has by no means died out. It is more than probable that no definite settlement of the matter will be reached at once. The public is divided upon this question, with a very positive attitude both for and against the movement. For this reason the request for religious instruction in the schools and the protest against it may both be taken under advisement by the Board of Education, and the decision may be reserved for some time. WE are gratified to learn from various sources that our workers are making use of the local papers through which to reach the people where they are laboring. Several brethren in the field have forwarded to us clippings from the papers, showing that leading truths of the message have thus been presented to many who would not attend a public service. We hope many others will be encouraged to follow this example.