Sectarian

Sectarian

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Sectarian (1): “Sectarian” has received more contradictory constructions than any other equally simple word in the English language. In Wisconsin the “King James”Bible was held to be a sectarian book (State v. District Board, 76 Wis., 177; 44 N. W., 967; 20 Am. St. Rep., 41; 7 L. R. A., 330); but in Kentucky it was held that neither the Douay nor the “King James” Bible was a sectarian book. The Missouri court extended sectarian so as to apply to the Republican party. In Illinois an industrial school for girls in which the Catholic Sisters were employed as teachers, was held a sectarian institution (County v. Industrial School, 125 Ill., 540; 18 N. E., 183; 1 L. R. A., 437; 8 Am. St. Rep., 386); while in Wisconsin, the “Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls,” a private corporation organized and conducted by Protestant ladies, has received appropriations from the State and has had its reports published at state’s expense, as a non-sectarian institution (“Wis. Industrial School for Girls,” Wisconsin Blue Book. Session Laws of Wis., 1907, p. 1416 (index to Acts). Wis. Industrial School for Girls v. Clark Co., 103 Wis., 651; 79 N. W., 422). In New York the religious garb of the Catholic Sisters was practically decided to be sectarian;42 but in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin it was decided that the dress of the Sisters was not sectarian (Hysong v. Gallitzen, 164 Pa., 629; 30 At., 482; 44 Am. St. Rep., 623; 26 L. R. A., 203; Dorner v. School Dist., 118 N. W., 353 (Nov. 27, 1908). A good r&ecute;sum&ecute; of the subject is given in a footnote in 105 Am. St. R., 151).

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

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