Illiteracy and Moral Education

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 17.

Illiteracy and Moral Education

THERE are in the United States more than six million persons over ten years of age who can neither read nor write. This class produces twenty-two times its proportion of paupers, and ten times its proportion of criminals, as compared with the rest of the population. It is estimated that these persons furnish thirty per cent. more than their proportion of the drunkards of our land. If this is an argument in favor of secular education, it is still more an argument in favor of moral and religious education. Nearly two million of these ignorant persons are voters.—Christian Hour.