Book Review
Let My Children Go, E. Ray Moore, Jr., Gilead Media, Columbia,
SC, 2002, pp. 352
Classis Bulletin - July 2002
Review by Patch Blakey - executive director
 God
requires Christian parents to provide a distinctly Christian education
for their children when the Bible says, "And, ye fathers,
provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord." (Eph. 6:4.) Unfortunately, millions
of Christians still somehow justify sequestering their children
daily in a pagan institution to be indoctrinated by unbelievers.
The author, E. Ray Moore, Jr., is a retired U.S. Army Reserve
Chaplain (Lt. Colonel), and veteran of Desert Storm. He is also
the Director of the Exodus Mandate, a Christian ministry dedicated
to getting Christian parents to remove their children from the
government school system. Let My Children Go is a book about hope,
hope for our nation's future through exhorting Christian parents
to take biblical responsibility for seeing that their children
are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, not
the secular, humanistic state.
Chaplain Moore points out, "today's public schools have
grown increasingly violent. Many, especially in large, urban areas,
have metal detectors on all their entrances .... today's public
school graduates do not have the mastery of basic subjects that
earlier generations had. Students are leaving public high schools
in record numbers without having acquired basic writing skills,
reading comprehension or mathematical ability."
-Thesemdemicfailings should come as no surprise to Christians
since the Scriptures point us to Jesus Christ, "In whom are
hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Col. 2:3.)
Yet the American public school system, which the author says is
more suitably called the government school system, was "nonChristian
and Unitarian, secular in trajectory, from the early days ...
The major thinker behind Progressive Education was the American
philosopher John Dewey .. In a constantly changing world, Dewey
felt, there can no absolute rights or wrongs. There are only secular
authorities and strategies for adapting ... This is what Progressive
Educators brought into public schools."
To further make his case that public schools are not friendly
to Christians, he sites several Supreme Court decisions. Cases
such as "the Everson decision in 1947 which relied on the
concept of the separation of church and state; then came the Engel
v. Vitale public school prayer case in 1962 and Abington v. Schemp
public school Bible reading case in 1963." All of these have
demonstrated the anti-Christian nature of the government school
system. In further support he quotes William Bennett, a former
Secretary of Education, "If an unfriendly foreign power had
attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance
that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."
Many Christians say that we should take back the public schools,
but the author demonstrates forcefully how this cannot now be
done. Moore says that the current education situation for Christians
is comparable to the bondage of the Israelites prior to the time
of Moses. The only answer is for Christian families to make an
exodus from the government school system. This must involve Christian
pastors faithfully preaching this urgent truth from their pulpits
so that parents can hear the message and heed it.
This is a book that Christian pastors, parents, and teachers
must read. The future well-being of our nation, and in particular,
that of our children, hangs in the balance of how we as Christian
parents respond to God's clarion call to "Let My Children
Go."
The book may be obtained by contacting wwwEmeraldhouse. com (new
releases). The book sells for $14.99 each, plus shipping and handling.
-Patch Blakey
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