For those who think the first States, of the United States of America, were not committed to teaching the Christian Faith to all children, in contrast to their preference today - athestic humanism.
Universally used in 18th Century New England schools, Thomas Dilworth’s New Guide to the English Tongue as a reader. The first lesson consists of only three letter words:
“No Man may put off the Law of God.
The Way of God is no ill Way.
My Joy is in God all the Day.
A bad Man is a Foe to God.”