Religion in Public Schools

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 18, 1907

Religion in Public Schools

In an address before the National Educational Society Bishop Conaty, in urging religious training in the schools, said:—

Fifty years ago general education was thought to be the panacea of all the ills of the social body, but the results are not of a character to warrant confidence. Positive religion alone can make man moral, and keep him in the way of morality.

But in trying to avoid one evil, there is great danger of paving the way for a more serious one. For while religion is the only safe basis of morality, experience has demonstrated that the state can not be safely trusted to teach “positive religion.”