Religion: Parliament Wants Religion

Last week 224 British peers and members of Parliament asked their Government to: 1) provide schools with religion instructors, 2) make religion an optional subject in teachers' colleges, 3) begin daily services in schools, 4) arrange for textbooks on religion, 5) appoint Government inspectors of religion. -Said these signatories: "The present struggle is clearly one between a regime embracing a crude and reactionary paganism, finding expression in material force and destroying truth, freedom and justice wherever its impact is felt, and ourselves and those who have the declared purpose of establishing these more firmly in the common life of the world as the foundation of that new and better social order.

Rightly understood, these are the elemental principles of the Christian philosophy of life and it would seem therefore that the future citizen should be so molded in character by Christian education that his citizenship shall become the expression of these principles in action."