Bible Reading in California Schools

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 26, 1903

Bible Reading in California Schools

In answer to some who have taken exception to a recent decision by California’s attorney-general against the use of the Bible in public school exercises in that State, The Independent observes that “what the opinion of the attorney-general of California has barred from the public schools is not the Bible, but the regular reading of it as a religious exercise. For reference it can be as much in the school libraries as a dictionary, and for literary study it can as well be used as Shakespeare’s plays. But very properly all religious exercises that might excite conflict are excluded.”