110 PERILS. — RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



sity of religious instruction in the schools that rather 

 than see them secularized, they would favor denomina- 

 tional schools supported by the State. 



The great danger now is that between the upper and 

 nether millstones of Romanism and Secularism, all 

 religion will be ground out of our public schools. And 

 this danger is greater in the West than in the East, for, 

 as we have already seen, Romanism is relatively much 

 stronger west of the Mississij^pi than east of it, and as 

 we shall see later (Chap. XII.) evangelical church mem- 

 bershii^ is much weaker. 



