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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42.

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Godless Schools

SPEAKING of the fact that the Bible is excluded from our public-school system, the Christian Workers Magazine of July calls attention to the work of teachers in some of the universities who “consider themselves free to disparage the Christian faith before their pupils,” notwithstanding the fact that “the law prohibits religious instruction—which includes the antireligious—in schools supported by taxation.” It argues that these teachers are very dilatory in their duty and have betrayed the confidence reposed in them as teachers of our youth, and that this course of action on their part not only fosters enmity toward Christianity, but is unpatriotic and treasonable. As a remedy it suggests:—
If such teachers will not heed these arguments, it is time that the people who support them should recognize their seriousness and demand an enforcement of the law. If our schools must be “godless” in the sense that God is left out, let them not be made satanic in the sense that the prince of darkness shall be brought in.