Compulsory reading of the Bible in all public schools in Michigan is the aim of a campaign to be launched following the Citizens’ Conference on Religion and Morals in Education, declared Dr. W. S. Fleming, Michigan representative of the National Reform Association, which is sponsoring the conference here.
Dr. Fleming made a plea for “at least $1,000” to finance the campaign and the conference. He told the audience that the National Reform Association, which has been carrying on a program of education in Michigan the last two years, intends to follow the conference with a campaign to place the Bible in all public schools of the state. He said that because voluntary Bible reading leaves the teacher exposed to the attacks of forces opposed to Christianity, the objective of the campaign would be for a regulation making daily reading of the Bible in the public schools compulsory. An effort will be made to bring the matter before the State Legislature during the present session, he sair.
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