BIBLE IN SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT.
Our American sisters have just inaugurated a department for Rible in Schools, of which Mrs Jean Buchanan Wylie is Superintendent. Most excellent reasons are given for this work Iwung taken up. The Bible is our standard of morals and should tx* employed in the training of our youth for the duties of citizenship. In every State there are laws based upon the Decalogue, surely the moral principles which underlie those law’s should tie taught. Many States provide for codes of moral training. The recog -
nised authoritative standard should be used in giving such training. The 1 tilde is a i>ook for nations as veelt as individuals. They point out that it is only lately that this pronounced opposition has arisen, that the Bible pronounces the doom of both intemperate individuals and liquor-cursed nations. There is no reason to exclude the Bible from our schools. It is not a sectarian twjoK. It is the voice of (io«l to men in every relation of life.
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 377, 18 December 1926, Page 7
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