IGNORANCE OF THE BIBLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 78, 22 May 1911, Page 6

IGNORANCE OF THE BIBLE.

The decrease in Bible knowledge among the educated classes in America is attracting attention (says the H. F. Hamilton publishes some figures respecting the lot) Freshmen who entered Amherst College, Massachusetts, last year. They were set a paper of six' Bible questions, of which two were “the easiest that could be thought of,” while “two were exceedingly difficult, so as to test the intimate as well as the average knowledge of the men.” More than seventynine of these undergraduates could remember nothing about the fall of Jericho, thirty-seven knew nothing of Cain, forty knew nothing of Daniel, and sixty-five, one hundred and two, and one hundred and five failed to answer questions about Saul, Gideon, and Timothy respectively. Professor Hamilton also reports that in visiting certain schools in New York he found, among pupils preparing for college and nearly of an ago for entrance, whole classes that could not tell the story of Daniel in the lions’ den.