El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-14
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cally, yes; derominationally, no -
President Stryker. 'Yes-the centr al
cardinal features of it."-Dr. Cuyler.
'Under our principles ard system of
government it seems impracticable. so
long as denominations are so antago-
nistic. "-President Craven: The state
should protect it, but not enforce it..
The most it can do is to authorize the
reading of the bible in the schools. -
Judge Fancher. 'The state ought to
arrange that it should be given: not at
the states cost, necessarily. DIR.
John Hall.
Space does not permit quotations
from answers to the remaining ques-
tons l cas- only give an analysis of
, the result Ninety would give sacred
history and literature, seven would
teach doctrines and creeds, % would
teach church history, l20 would have
instruction in moral lessons from the
Bible, IL would teach all of the above,
and 80 would teach pone of them. l.
will be seen that the majority think
that it is to safe to teach sacred his
tory and literature, and moral lessons
from the Bible, and that only few
would admit anything else. One
hundred and forty-5wo distinguish
moral from religious instruction and
40 make no distinction. The large
proportion believe that the chief OBJ
stacle to the Introduction of religious
instruction is sectarianism, narrow
ness, bigotry, or superstition. ''Poor
teachers" is offered as an objection by
quite number, and also that church
and state are separate in this country.
| One hundred and twepty-fOur would
| favor trial under certain Limitations,
4e would not give it a trial, and II
| pronounce its Introduction an impos-
sibility. Some, who believe in religi-
Gus Instruction as theory, positive Y
and emphatically oppose any attempt
| to work out the problem; it being be :
! You'd solution IN our country.
l have given, thus far, statements of
opinion which, coming as they do
from such eminent persons, are en-
titled to respect; vet they must be re-
garded somewhat as generalizatfons
and theories. There are statistics al
| hand, however, which verify the posi-
tions taken by the ma ority, and which
show a more alarming condition of
things than even the most pessimistio
fear. According to calculations based
upon the last report of the commission
err of education, there were, in 1896, in
the Sunday school a little less than
fifty per cent of all the children of
our country The meaning of these
figures is simply overwhelming
More than one half of the children in
this Christian land who receive prac-
tically no religious instruction. For
but few parents who fail to send their
children to Sunday school are careful
about the religious training of their
children in the home. Why exclude
sacred history and literature and ad-
NIT every other history and literature?
1t cannot be, in this age of intolerance
and intelligence, that there is not a
common platform of literary, historic
aud moral teaching founded directly
upon the bible upon which Catholic
and Protestant, Jew and Christian, Or
thodox and liberal, can staod in our
schools. The Rev. Thomas Bouquillon,
an eminent Catholic priest, says: "Edu-
cation: to whom does it belong? is the
question with which we started out
We now make answer: 1t belongs to
the Individual, physical or moral, to
the family, to the state, to the church: :
to none of these solely and exclusively,
out TO all four combined in harmonious
working, for the reason that man is
not an isolated but a social being.
Precisely in the harmonious com bina-
ton of these four factors in education
is the difficulty of practical applica-
tiOnn