Excerpt from Church and School in the American Law It was this feature which is primarily responsible for the fact that one church the Roman Catholic staunchly retained its parochial school system built up during the time when there were no public schools in the present - day acceptation of that term. Such schools, whether they retained the reading of the Bible, the saying of prayers, and the singing of religious hymns, or whether they abolished these customs, were about equally objectionable to the Church of Rome. In the first case it was the Protestant Bible that was read, it was Protestant hymns that were sung, and it was Protestant prayers that were uttered. In the second case it was felt that a godless school could not but produce a godless generation of men and women. With great determination the Catholics there fore now assumed the' double burden of supporting not only their Own schools, but also the public school system, which was rapidly growing in size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.