Excerpt from Bibles and Religions Out Versus in the Public Schools Wherever the home and school have been secularized the results have been salutary and satisfactory. Secular schools would be Degreesno blind experiment with us. In several countries, public education has been secularized and no kind of religious instruction is allowed in the public schools. This is true of France, of some of the States of Germany, and some parts of Switzerland and Holland. While the results are favorable, and more than could be reasonably expected under the circum stances, the test of secular teaching and training so far has not been a fair one, because there is the counter vailing influence of the error and superstition which are imbibed by the child at home and at the church - from parent and priest. How the proper teaching of reading, writing, arith metic, grammar, geography, etc., and the co-incident inculcation, by precept and example, of kindness, honesty, truthfulness, industry and all the moral virtues, can possibly lead to vice and crime, Rev. John Langtry failed to explain. That a purely secular system of education and training can turn out a better citizen for this world (however it might be about the hypothetical next) than is now being turned out by the home, the Sunday school, the Separate school, and' the quasi-religious public school, only remains to be tried here to be demonstrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.