7 in the schoolroom, have suppressed and held in abeyance all teaching leading to infidelity. The tendency, however, by excluding the Bible, prayer, and all semblance of religious training and instruction from our public schools is in the direction to discourage a belief in, and reverence for a Supreme Being. Many religious denominations-and to their credit be it said-are very zealous and tenacious to have schools established and conducted under the auspices of their religious organizations. Then why should not the Latter-Day Saints do likewise? The conditions which now surround us appear favorable, and the Presidency of the Church considers the time opportune to take this subject directly in hand and push it forward with energy and zeal, until we obtain throughout the land of Zion a system of education for our sons and daughters which will be ordered and managed under divine inspiration and influence and blessing. We believe that all the branches of learning, all that pertains to nature, the physical laws of our being, the laws which govern the vegetable kingdom, the formation and creation of the world we inhabit, and the planetary system in fact, all that which is true, embraced in science, in art, and in the professions should be communicated to our offspring through inspired writings and teachers. There is no surer way to attain success and secure the greatest proficiency and eminence - eternal in its duration and character - than in education under such hallowed conditions. It is our duty to surround our children with that influence that will inspire correct thought, pure and virtuous impressions and impulses. A religion which, will not apply to the schoolroom, and the tenets of which will not admit the test that educated and scientific minds can apply, is not worthy of the consideration of man. We are here reminded of an incident in the life and experience of Jesus, who when arraigned before learned doctors and lawyers of the Jewish nation, notwithstanding the temporal conditions peculiar to his birth and youth which had not favored a classical education in the seminaries of Jerusalem, exhibited a mental development and such cultivated matured thought and educated judgement that his questions and answers confused the most profound thinkers and scholars of the learned race. His success was achieved, and the brilliancy of his mental faculties shown forth, through the operations of the Holy Spirit and by his association with prophetic power. Why should we not place in the schoolroom the Bible, Book of Mormon, and the Standard works of the Church as guide and help to both teacher and student? We can confer no greater boon upon our posterity than education under teachers and authors divinely inspired, associating with all their studies the