In 1940 the New York Times conducted a survey of 50,000 youths in New York high schools. Thirty-seven thousand of these declared that they had not the faintest idea what the Ten Commandments were. If that was true in 1940 imagine how many would know nothing of the Ten Commandments today.
The Ten Commandments have had as much impact on the world as anything ever written. They are the moral and spiritual foundations of our society. Every child should know them by heart.
There was a time when they were taught in our public schools and every child had to memorize them. Perhaps some of you remember the Ten Commandments in verse as they were found in the Old McGuffey’s Reader.