The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-24
.FAvORS BIBLE IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Strong Argument Made by Rev.
Mr.. HaywOrth of East Side
Baptist Church.
SAYS ITS EXCLUSION
IS A RANK INJUSTICE
State, He Insists, Should Have
Right TO Instruct Youths
in Morals.

Rev. S. \. Hayworth, of the East
terday on the subject ''Tho Teachers
marks upon the text found in Daniel
Nii-3: "'And they that be teachers
shall shine as the brightness of the
armament: and they that turn many TO
righteousness as the stars forever and
forever
Rev. Mr.. Hayworth said in part.
'This is the greatest compliment TO
the teaching profession In all literature,
the real mission of the teacher being
to turn many to righteousness. But
unfortunately this high privilege is de-
MED our public school teachers. The
people of this country have swung from
one extreme to another. For fear of
fostering the union of church and state,
we place limitations on the schools IN
fostering good morals. We have said
that the ten commandments shall not
be taught in cur public schools.
It Is Rank Injustice.
'The Bible, that great fountain of
morality. is excluded from use. This
is a rank injustice to the multitude of
boys and girls who are without moral
instruction in their homes and who
cannot be reached by the Sunday
schools, owing 10 the indifference OF
their parents, if not their open hostility
to the work of the churches and Sun
day schools. The first prerequisite TO
good citizenship is good morals. The
Comptroller of the currency of the
United States in recent interview
at Washington admitted that there is
no possibility of absolutely protecting
bank stockholders and depositors when
integrity is lacking on the part of the
L IL >, -,
be the duty of the teacher to give some
time to instructing the pupil in the
common principles of honesty and NOR
ality as contained in the ten command
ments.
ga Judge in a certain western State
recently rendered a decision against al
lowing the principles of morality taught
IN the public schools lest the rights of
the atheist be infringed upon. [ say
it is wrong to deprive boy Of know
ledge of ethics for the saks of some
atheist and then imprison the boy who
through ignorance breaks the law by
theft or murder. 1t is not square
deal. The same logic, If consistently
carried ont, viii put a stop TO our
teaching physiology or that the break
ing of a bone involves pain or that it
is necessary to observe the laws Of
health IN order TO avoid disease, be-
be infringing upon the right of the
Christian Scientist whose fundamental
religious tenet is the denial of the ex-
! istence of matter and of pain. We Will
have to repeal all laws requiring the
teaching Of the effects Of alcohol on
the system, for fear of trespassing upon
the right of some old topper who wor-
ships the god Of Bacchus. Scientific
temperance instruction will have to be
banished from the schools of our coun-
try if we are going TO follow the logic
! Of this extreme view.
Must Obey Nature 8 Laws.
F'We are in world where if we do
not obey nature 8 laws we suffer. If
we do not keep away from the fire we
| burn. Moral laws are as inexorable as
| are the physical laws Of life. He who
breaks the moral laws is locked up in
prison. We pay many millions of dol
! lars TO the police force of this country
TO lock people up who break the laws
of the land. 1t would therefore seem
wise to remove the restrictions I'M
posed upon the public schools and en-
courage the teaching of the universal
! principles of Christian ethics revealed
in the ten commandments and in the
Sermon on the Mount. If the State
assumes the right to put youth in
jail it ought to have the right to teach
| HIM how TO keep out of Jail.
! president Roosevelt in a recent
address declared that man educated
in the intellect only is a most dangerous
citizen, and that the highest citizenship
can only spring from the education OF
the moral nature alongside of the in
tellectual. This being true it is time
for the re-introduction of course OF
instruction in our schools giving TO the
youth of the land knowledge which
is necessary for fhe sirenptheniup of
the moral fiber Of our Republic
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