School Prayer.

As late as 1962 twenty-four states permitted or required children to begin the school day with prayer. One such state was New York, whose board of regents devised a prayer seemingly innocuous enough to avoid offending any of the variety of religious believers in that state. The prayer read as follows:

Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country.