The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-01
RELIGION FOR THE SCHOOLS,
PRIEST. RABBI AND MINISTERS
FAVOR MOVEMENT.
Would Have II So That Pupils Could Get
Religious Instruction Once q Week
without Loss 81 standing PLEAS
by Father Mcmillan and bishop Greer.

by Father MCMILLAN and bishop Greer.
A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and rep
reeentatives Of five Protestant denomina-
lions united at q meeting in the assembly
hall Of the United Charities building last
night to plead for a more thorough religious
education Of children. Tit movement
had it's inception at the in%terchurch con-
ference last fall, II is proposed that the
pubuc schools shall so arrange the schedule
of studies that subjects OF relative unim-
portance shall come on Wednesday after
Moons, and that such students as desire it,
or whose parents desire it, shall be then
free to "a to the churches Of their choice
to receive there religious instruction with
out loss Of public school standing.
The Rev. DR., Arson P, Atterbury, pastor
Of the Park Presbyterian Church. presided
and invited Father Mcmillan Of the Panlists
to come to the platform AZ the first speaker.
1T is our Catholic position that religion
and morality are insensrablv joined said
Father Mcmillan. To Ns It ia visionary
that there can be morality without religion.
This plan will solve many OF our prob
lena We hear and we know that to some
extent the Sunday school Is ineffective,
that it does not provide all that lie needed
and that the time allotted to il does not,
Rive sufficient chance for necessary. in
stfuction. The method suggested will help
us to get rid Of that absurd. pernicions idea
no place in the business day. It ia a weak
ness Of the Christian Church that under
present conditions u has no officers who
can 20 out and make the child come to Sun
day school az the public school can.
son account, OF religious, differences
much annot he expected from public
o~faoials. These men. on account of re-
hgious differences have 70 assume a position
81 brutality toward religion. In a sense
IL 10 a right position. And so the respon-
Parents have the undoubted Inherent right
to insist that their children be educated
In the parents faith. They have, | know.
n growing interest that something must
In the public school. ! am not talking
now as a Catholic, but as a citizen. " Is
the religious denominations who are VIII
Ing TO lack their position BY building
churches and schools, by ell sacrifice.
are not very Alf-sacrlGcing. It is time
the churches aroused themselves
Bishop Greer said:
"I am a strong and sta nch believer IN
the public schools, want them pretty
They do that which they aim 10 do, and DO u
fairly we'll, They serve = great patriotic
purpose here in a vast, heterogeneous popu'
fation, taking children of nearly every
race In the world and contributing largely
10 their America nization. ] know OF one
school where there are seventeen nation
alities. =
do not think they can be as long as they
have God-fearing tea cheers, For aught ]
know all teachers are such, By their
characters they are exerting a great re-
liRious influence. This is good as far as II
goes, but il does not go far enough.
There must be moral and relig out
training. That il more than a religious
influence. In the last ANALYSIS moral train
ing rests or religious training. II the
be not as they should be met, something
more 10 necessary than the training thai