Editorial May 27, 1905 Issue

Moral Instruction

Archibald McLellan

Those who believe that crime is on the increase offer in support of their argument the news columns of the daily press. Others who combat this belief say that the apparent increase is due only to the greater facilities for gathering news. However this may be, it is certain that the world is in great need of a moral standard and that this standard should be set before the rising generation. It is, therefore, with great pleasure that we reprint the following petition, which has been circulated for signatures preparatory to presenting it to a school board. It is as follows:—

To the School Board.

Gentlemen:—As we believe that moral teaching is of even more value to the State than secular instruction, and admitting that in Public Schools there can be no definite religious instruction, we beg to present to your consideration the teaching of the Ten Commandments, as being entirely non-ecclesiastical and admittedly the only rules of invariable morality which the world possesses.

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