Excerpt from Report of Committee on School Credit for Bible Study, Religious Instruction and Moral Training: Des Moines, Iowa, November 2, 1916

Your Committee, however, before taking up the main topic of its report wishes to declare itself as favoring the instruction of children by competent teachers under the direction of, relig ious bodies. A free State means a free church and a free school. The home, the church, and the school are the three institutions whose function in a democracy is the making of worthy Amer ican citizens out of boys and girls. While church and state are not organically connected they are functionally related. The home should give the child a good physical inheritance and should train him in the primary habits of good conduct, industry and respect for authority. The church should culture insight into the significance of duty, reverence, worship, sin and sal vation so that godliness may be.his aim and worthiness his practice.

His religious belief rests with the home and the church. The function of the school is to train physically, mentally and morally all the powers of the growing child which make for good citizenship. It 15 by the work of this trinity of institutions that unity of purpose may be realized, and a larger place for education in religion and for religion in education be realized. It takes the correlated efforts of home breeding, school drilling and church training to make a good man out of the boy, andwhenever any of these factors fail to do its part the product is deficient.

The church schools which deal with pupils of elementary school age are being improved by the nation wide interest in. A wiser selection of courses, the proper grading of the classes, the better equipping of class rooms and the demand for better teachers. The church should parallel the pupil's secular career with that religious instruction which meets the demand of mod ern pedagogy in matters of content, presentation, organization and equipment.

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