RELIGION AND MORALS.
DISCUSSION BY THE PRESBYTERY.
A special meeting of the Auckland Presbytery was held on Tuesday, July 4th, to confer upon "the state of religion and morals within its bounds," and to consider "what special means, if any, can be adopted for winning the young to Christ and His Church,' this step being taken in accordance with a recommendation from a Committee of the General Assembly * There were present, Eev. Thos. Norrie, junr., who occupied the Moderator's Chair, and Revs. R. Sommerville, Jas. Milne, H. Kelly, R. F. Macnicol, E. Ferguson, D. J .Steele, McLean, McDonald, T. Norrie, senr., Wylie, W. Gillies (Timaur), and Messrs Entrican and Gray (elders).
After a lengthy discussion the following resolution, moved by Rev. Mr Sommerville, was carried unanimously: "The Presbytery, in conference with the members of the sessions within the bounds, haying fully considered the question of taking steps to get the law so changed as to allow the Bible, guarded by timetable and conscience clause, to be introduced into our national schools, being unanimously of opinion that the moral well-being of the community is seriously retarded by depriving the children of the knowledge which the reading of the Bible gives, resolves to recommend to the Assembly's Committee on Education to taJce steps to have a Bill introduced into Parliament authorising the taking of a plebiscite of the people on the question of introducing the reading of the Bible into the daily curriculum of our national schools; or. should the committee, in its discretion, think it desirable to take an immediate plebiscite, the Presbytery recommens that the co-operation of the other Christian churches be sought to gain the desired end. The Presbytery further recommends that the Assembly's Committee take steps to put to every candidate for Parliament at the forthcoming election the question: 'Are you in favour of taking a plebiscite on. the question of the introduction of the Bible into our public v^mmsollim^^ ■ mm
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 158, 6 July 1899, Page 7
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