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" That religious instruction, and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited in the common schools of Cincinnati, it being the true object and intent of this rule to allow the children of the parents of all sects and opinions,... "
Report of the Commissioner of Education - Page 254
by United States. Office of Education - 1870
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School Prayer: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1966 - 920 pages
...Coast; the Cincinnati Board of Education resolved in 1869 that "religious instruction and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...sects and opinions, in matters of faith and worship, 40 Quoted in Dunn, What Happened to Religious Education? (1958), 271. 41 Quoted in Butts, The American...
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The Free School System of the United States

Francis Adams - Education - 1875 - 328 pages
...Holy Bible, are prohibited in the common schools of Cincinnati, it being the true object and intention of this rule to allow the children of the parents...opinions in matters of faith and worship to enjoy alike tho benefit of the Common School Fund." " Rcaolvcd— That so much of the regulations on the course...
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Liberty in the Balance

Russell R. Standish, Colin D. Standish - History - 1998 - 294 pages
...classroom. The new resolution was as follows: Resolved, That religious instruction, and the reading of religious books, .including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...in matters of faith and worship, to enjoy alike the benefits of the common school fund. Resolved, That so much of the regulations of the course of study...
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A History of the English Bible as Literature

David Norton - Bibles - 2000 - 526 pages
...States as a biblical nation, 1776-1865', in Hatch and Noll, The Bible in America, pp. 39 58; p. 40). religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...enjoy alike the benefit of the Common School fund' (pp. 6-7). A group of Cincinnati citizens sought to have this rule nullified. Behind the Board's rule...
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The Fourth R: Conflicts Over Religion in America's Public Schools

Joan DelFattore - Education - 2004 - 352 pages
...different faiths. Accordingly, it enacted a resolution saying, "[R]eligious instruction and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...faith and worship, to enjoy alike the benefit of the common-school fund" (Board of Education of Cincinnati v. Minor, 23 Ohio St. 211 [1872], p. 211). This...
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Who's Afraid of Madalyn Murray O'Hair?

Siarlys Jenkins - Law - 2005 - 272 pages
...1969). That year, the school board adopted a resolution that "religious instruction and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...faith and worship, to enjoy alike the benefit of the common-school fund." Bible readings in school, the board decided, were "contrary to the spirit of free...
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The Bible in the Public Schools: Arguments in the Case of John D. Minor Et ...

Religion in the public schools - 2005 - 466 pages
...induced me to prepare a dissenting opinion. _" Resolved, That religious instruction and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...schools of Cincinnati, it being the true object and interest of this rule, to allow the children of the parents of all sects and opinions, in matters of...
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Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

Tracy Fessenden, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Tracy Fessenden - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 364 pages
...alternative resolution that prohibited "the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible ... in the Common Schools of Cincinnati, it being the...in matters of faith and worship, to enjoy alike the benefits of the Common School fund."92 Miller's resolution passed by a vote of 22-15, with all of the...
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Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications, Part 1

Ohio - Ohio - 1870 - 1038 pages
...resolutions referred to are as follows : "Resolved, That religious instruction, and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...enjoy alike the benefit of the common school fund. " Resolved, That so much of the regulations on the course of study and text-books in the intermediate...
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Educational Review, Volume 71

Education - 1926 - 340 pages
...school board of Cincinnati adopted a resolution providing that 'religious instruction and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited...enjoy alike the benefit of the common school fund.' "Suit was brought to enjoin the enforcement of this rule, and the State supreme court held that the...
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