Children Taught to Renounce God
“England who loves her children, listen to our appeal on behalf of our children,” is a cry from Petrograd. The writer goes on to say: ―
“Hundreds of them are daily dying of hunger, neglect, and infectious diseases. The death-rate is so appalling that an elderly reliable physician could not be induced to name the exact figure. He turned away to hide his feelings and motioned the questioner out of the room. But death is not the worst, it may even be a deliverance from the hands of those who murder souls as well as bodies. Children―masses of them―are bribed by specially good food (most rare in these hard times), by flattery, over-indulgence, theaters, dancing, and other similar attractions to renounce God, never utter His name, never pray, never go anywhere they can hear about Him, except in blasphemy. Imagine a large company of children gathered on a fete day in front of one of the palaces, emptied of its owners, listening to the following speech: ― “Dear children, we have called you together to tell you that now everything is yours. You are the masters and have a right to all you see.,. You can take, use, do whatever you like, and need not at all mind stealing, for you can always leave off.” (Exact words used.)
The Condition of the Schools
The former superintendents and teachers in large government, and private girls’, and boarding schools, established many years ago and conducted on principles of order, propriety, and good solid teaching, have after almost a lifetime of faithful service, been turned away homeless and penniless, and replaced by the tools and slaves of some uneducated youngster, who is put at the head of everything, although often hardly able to sign his own name. These schools now are mixed, morals indescribable, literature of the worst kind distributed amongst the girls and boys, no supervision, no restraint, no religion, proper teaching set aside, and dancing put in its place.
What can respectable parents do but take their children away and leave them without education rather than let their souls and bodies be ruined? “Take them away at once!” was a godly mother’s firm decision, as she spoke of her two pure girls 13 and 14 years of age. Poor mother! She did not yet know about the latest decree just issued by which parents have no right to keep their children at home! Communistic schools are to take them, keep them, educate them according to their views, and lest any should escape, babies will be taken from their mothers directly after their birth! “Hail the doing away with home life and parental rule!” This is the last triumphant cry! Mothers of England, can you hear that, and not care?”