The Mankato free press., 1921-12-23
PROGRESS OF BIBLE
STUDY BY STUDENTS
Sixteen-Nine Persons Take
instruction
KEEP UP WITH WORK
Young Folks Display An Inter
est In Holy Writ; Teachers
For Students

Week day religious instruction is
progressing very nicely in the differ
ent classes in the city. The Presby-
terian, Baptist, Evangelical and Scan
dinavian Baptist churches have COM
bined in the work Of instruction- Ev-
cry Thursday morning at eight
o'clock the junior students of the
high school meeting the churches. At
ten O'Clock the senior class students
meet There is a remarkably good
attendance, there rarely being an alb
sence.
Rev. E. II. Knehans is TEACHING the
students who are attending the week-
day religious instruction at the Gem
tenary Methodist Episcopal church on
Thursdays. There are sixteen stud
ents in the week day religious classes
at the Centenary Methodist Episcopal
church.
Rev. Ralph A Jensen Of the Bap-
tist church is the instructor in the
senior crass Of the school 1t the Pres
byterian church, and Miss Caroline
Robbins is teaching the students in the
Junior high school.
The students at the Methodist
church are studying the Life of Christ
from a text book by the same name.
The author is Milton s. LItle6eld.
The seniors Of the school are taking
up the history of the new testament.
Studying Life Of Christ
The senior students at the PreSby-
terian church are studying the Life of
Christ. The junior students have tax
en- up as their work the studying OF
pupils are now enrolled in the Pres
byterian church classes.
The classes In week day religious
instruction in the Swedish Lutheran
church are very prosperous. There
are now twenty-t three students. The
senior students are studying the first
section of the Life of Christ. The
second division Of students are hay.
ing course in new testament teach
ings, with special emphasis on the
ethical teaching Of the new testament.
At the same time, these classes are
studying Biblical geography.
The Swedish Lutheran church also
has class Of twenty live children,
who meet every Saturday for confir-
nation instruction
There has been tendency toward
grouping all the high school students,
and eventually the churches may all
join in the instruction.
The Abingdon Bulletin Of Reliein-'s
Instruction has published the follow,
ing paragraph which has been semi. all
Every American child has an in
aiienabIe right to q knowledge OF the
Bible and to training IN the Christian
religion.
FThe Public school cannot teach
religion; the home increasingly does
not. The Sunday school has done a
remarkable work. but with its necee :.
sary limitations it can never fully
meet the need We are in danger of
becoming a nation of religious illit
crates. There are in the United
States today, 20,5OO,000 children from
the ages Of six to twelve years. Out OF
this number there are $3.50 900. who
attend Sunday school, Two thirds of
all American children receive no sig
nifcant religious instruction.
Religion is as important and as
much part Of life equipment as geo.
graphy or arithmetic. Religion can
be taught; it should have its share in
any program of education
Week day religious nducafion will
help the church meet this obligation.
1t is helping meet it now for thou
sands of children in many American
communities.
"Let the church pat the child at the
center Of its program"
There is now total of sixty nine
Mankato students taking the religious
instruction, and owing to the fact that
there will be no conflicts next term,
the number will be increased great
deal more. 1t is now entirely up to
the parents. The teachers are ready
and viking to give this instruction IL
the children are sent to them, and it,
deny their children the benefit OF this
important subject.