Endowments; Religious education; School boards; New York (N.Y.); Interdenominational Committee on Weekday Religious Instruction (New York, N.Y.); Interdenominational Committee on Religious Instruction of New York City
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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The different denominations of the community may undertake to accomplish their educational task through more direct cooperative effort in charge of a special interdenominational committee. The joint conduct of a religious day-school or of a daily vaca tion Bible school will often be easily possible for several churches unitedly either of the same or of different denominations where it will be quite impossible for any single church. All this looks toward the realization of complete interdenominational cooperation in the local community. The example of this has been set in the city of New York in the appointment of an Interdenominational Committee on Weekday Religious Instruction." [SOURCE: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on Christian Education. Cooperation in Christian Education: Report of the Commission on Christian Education. Council of Churches of Christ in America, 1917, pp. 123. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=wWpIAAAAYAAJ. Accessed 28 Sep. 2018.] "The Rev. Dr. Anthony H. Evans of West Park Church, supported Dr. Coffin. 'The situation is very acute,' said Dr. Evans, who is the Presbyterian representative in the Interdenominational Committee on Religious Instruction of New York City." [SOURCE: "PROTESTANTS NOT PREPARED TO TEACH." The New York Times, 15 Jun. 1920, pp. 11. TimesMachine, https://nyti.ms/2NQ41cc. Accessed 28 Sep. 2018.] "Magnes and Benderly were also sensitive not to alienate Catholic and Protestant religious leaders who supported the Gary plan. The Bureau was invited to participate in, and felt it had no choice but to at least formally cooperate with, an Interdenominational Committee on Weekday Religious Instruction, whose stated purpose was 'to secure religious instruction for all public school children by utilizing any time which the school programs permit . . . [and] to see how far weekday instruction at churches can be developed in [New York City], especially through the Gary plan.' Magnes consented to serve as a representative of the Jewish community on the committee, along with Rabbis Mendes and Maurice Harris." [SOURCE: Krasner, Jonathan B. The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education. Brandeis University, 2011, pp. 210. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/book/14867. Accessed 28 Sep. 2018.]