Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-03


 l New Hampshire Maryland, North Car l olina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennes see Virginia, Wyoming, and Okla ? homa.
 Ohio has things a little mixed, fol there the Supreme Court decided tha
 the whole matter of text books was in the hands of the school board, and that the courts will not interfere as to whether they exclude the Bible from the public schools or authorize } it's use.
 In eight states opinions have been
 rendered against the use of the Bible
 in the public schools. The Supreme
 Courts have thus decided in Illinois
 and Wisconsin. In Nebraska, the Su-
 preme Court rendered a decision lagainst "the sectarian use of the
 Bible in the public schools" which was interpreted as being adverse to it's use at all, which to say the least, is doubtful interpretation of the law.
 The attorneys generals have decid- ed the use of the Bible in the public | schools to be illegal in California, Missouri, Minnesota and Washington. And the states school superintendents have likewise decided in Arizona, Mon tano and New York.
 In New York, however, each county superintendent renders a decision ac- cording to his own views, and hence there are different laws in different counties.
 (D) Some opinions relating to the value of the Bible-not only to the individual but also to the state:
 John Quincy Adams said, "So great | is my veneration for the Bible that | the earlier my children begin to read | it, the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful and respectable members of | society,"
 Abraham Lincoln said, "In regard to the great Book have only to say, that it is the best gift that God has given to man."
 Gro be continued tomorrow)
 Time would fail me to quote from Thomas Jefferson, William Mckinley, Hall, president of the Clark Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university; Prof. Sadler of Michigan university, md scores of other men of national or renown either as states nen or as men of letters.
 I will however, content myself by luoting from but few more.
 The National Association of Edu- ,atiOn when convened at Minneapolis, unanimously adopted a esolution in favor of the reading and judy of the English Bible in the pub ic schools, from which I will quote u part, We do not urge this in the | interest of sectarian instruction of ny kind, but that this great Book f nay ever be the teachers aid in the of history of literature, aw and life; an unrivaled agency in he development of true citizenship, as I yell as the formation of a pure lit rary style."
 Cardinal Gibbons said, "The Men il nd women of our day will, am sure, e much better themselves and will lso be able to transmit to their chil ren an inheritance of true morality,
 at school they are brought to a l. nowledge of Biblical facts and teach ., g." so Archdeacon Slaterly said, q should } very glad for my Protestant fellow that they should have their ible taught openly and honestly as 4 5 dignity deserves in the schools, U Id it will be sad day if the Protest It community does not agitate till l will quote from but one other ey get it.'' T lrdinal Newman said, T rejoice that e Bible is read in the boarding ! hools of England, even without a rect interpretation. It is better the ildren should know the name, the aracter, the work, the life, the para ,s of the Saviour of the world; m that they should grow up with the knowledge of His name.' And I am glad to say that the otestant people are waking up to , importance of this matter and dur
 this month there will doubtless ye been thousands of sermons ached on this subject in the United c tes. I have not only been request by the National Reform Association l | preach on this subject but to have | sermon published.
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