The Secularization of Public Schools
By Editor
A WRITER in the San Francisco Pacific says the almost universal sentiment of the American people is that “we must maintain our public schools, and we will not have any semblance of a State church. Along the whole line, from north to south, from east to west, the sentence goes forth that there shall be no more peace until the last vestige of religious thought and act shall disappear from our schools, and that they shall be henceforth completely secularized. It will be well for us all to comprehend what is involved in this pronunciamento. In several cities the issue has been made by the non-religious party, and in every instance the historic religious party has suffered defeat. The contest is likely to go on with the same result in the future as in the past. Our State schools will become entirely secularized.” The writer thinks that the time is past when our public schools can be used as “religious agencies.”