purifying jurisprudence and politics, have been recognized by many of
the most distinguished historians, jurists and statesmen.

As the makers of our laws and the founders of our government have
accepted the moral code of the Bible as the basis of our
jurisprudence, and have forbidden the union of church and state, and
have left every citizen free to "worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience," so long as he does not interfere
with the rights of others or violate the moral code common to all
citizens, for the law cannot allow a person to murder or steal, or
burn human sacrifices, or be a polygamist, or commit any other public
crime, even if the dictates of his conscience should lead him into
such a form of religion, because the moral code of the Bible is the
basis of our jurisprudence, and it forbids such things.

Therefore, we demand that the "book of books" be kept where the
rising generation shall come under its moral teaching without party
or sectarian comment, so that all may understand the fundamental
principles upon which the science of our common law rests, and thus
one of the objects of the order is "to maintain the public school
system of the United States and to prevent sectarian interference
therewith, and upholding the reading of the Holy Bible therein."

The argument that the reading of the Bible in the public school
should be abolished because it is objectionable to the conscience of
some comes only from the Church of Rome, and applies with equal force
against the moral code of jurisprudence, because it is objectionable
to the conscience of the anarchist, and the conscience of the
anarchist is just as sacred and entitled to as much respect, under
the law, in this free country of ours as the conscience of any one
else.

We have just as much right to take the moral code out of our common
jurisprudence as to take the Bible out of our public schools, because
the moral code of the Bible is the moral code of our common law.

We desire the Bible to be kept in the school as the standard of moral
truth, as the dictionary is kept there as the standard of words and
their definitions. As the unabridged dictionary contains all the
words of the English language, so the Bible contains all the truths
of Christianity. Every book has a part of the words of the
dictionary, so every Christian creed has a part of the truths of the
Bible. As there never was a book written that contained all of the
word