Excerpt from The Essential Place of Religion in Education
When the Executive Committee of the National Education Association met for its October meeting in 1914, a communication was received from a resident of California offering a prize of one thousand dollars for the beat essay on "The Essential Place of Religion in Education with an Outline of a Plan for Introducing Religious Teaching into Uie Public Schools." provided the Association was willing to carry on a prize-essay contest on that subject. The interest that the donor had in Uie general subject coupled with the fact Uiat tbe 1915 meeting of the Association was to be held In connection with the-Panama-Pacific International Exposition and was to be In the nature of an International Congress on Education were the reasons slated for the offer.
Religion was to be defined In a way not to run counter to the creeds of Protestant, Roman Catholic, or Jew. The essential points to he observed were: A Heavenly Father who holds nature and man alike in the hollow of his hand; the commandment of Hillcl and Jesus of Nararclh, "Thou shalt lore the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself"; the high ethical teachings and spirit of service and sacrifice indicated in the Sermon on the Mount.
The Executive Committee authorized the contest and announcements concerning the same were printed in the N. E. A. Bulletin for December and Bent to the various educational and religious papers.
A nation-wide Interest was awakened, as shown by the fact that 1,381 persons, representing every state In the Union save one. entered the contest. The essays were limited to ten thousand words. June 1 was set as the date when essays were to be presented, and 432 essays were filed by that time. The essays were read and sorted by five preliminary sets of Judges.
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