The Spirit of Public Schools by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 23.

The Spirit of Public Schools

By Editor

The Rev. J. Q. A. Henry (Baptist) said in a lecture on Romanism and the Public Schools, delivered in Odd Fellows' Hall, San Francisco, "No man should dare to point the finger of scorn at our public schools except under the penalty of death." What better is this spirit than that of Roman Catholicism? It certainly is neither true Protestantism nor Christianity. The perpetuation of our public schools lies in the benefit which these schools are to the public, and not in the "death" penalty, nor in "red-hot bayonets."