Article July 16, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

W. Arthur Alcorn

Bible Society Record

The Reverend W. Arthur Alcorn Community Baptist Church
Neptune, New Jersey
in his report entitled "The Bible
and Literature in Public High Schools:
The Authority and The Mandate"
quoted in the American
Bible Society Record, New York City

The Supreme Court declares: "It might well he said that one's education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization. It certainly may he said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment." . . .

Mr. Alcorn states: "Those who feel that the Bible is no more than human literature, which has been passed off as a divine revelation, can have no rational objection to the Bible being treated as such a secular work. Their purpose is accomplished. But, think again. Those who feel that the Bible is more than human literature (divine revelation) should also have no rational objection to such a treatment since the 'divine revelation' is by definition, something which can break through the human.

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