SECULAR EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 162, 11 July 1910, Page 6

SECULAR EDUCATION.

(To the Editor.) / Sir, —"Your correspondent "A Parent" i asks for an explanation of one set of - figures I quoted from the pen of the Rev. i J. Perren, Ph.D., in his work "Seed Corn 1 for the Sower," published in London in s 1896. For an answer to "Parent's" ques- "• tion, I must refer him to the author s above referred to. He follows ■ the. question by an affirmation ito the effect that the figures " given do not show that Bible 1 reading does do what I think it does. 3 In reply to that statement, let mc quote 3 him from another authority, viz., the •' Rev. Dr. Adams, who, when addressing 3 tlie New York Bible Society, said: "Tell ' mc where tlie. Bible is, • and where it is " not, and I will write a moral geography of the world Go to Italy. Decay, degradation, suffering/meet you on every, side; 1 commerce droops, agriculture-ickens, the : useful arts languish, you feel cramped by some invisible but mighty power. The 1 people dare not speak aloud, they walk J slowly, an armed soldiery is around their j| dwellings. Pass over the Alp 3 into Switzerland, and down the Rhine into Holland, and over the channel to England 3 and Scotland, and what an amazing con--1 trast meets the eye! Men look with an 1 air of independence. There is industry,. 1 neatness, instruction for children. Why r this difference ? They , have the Bible. ! And happy is the people who are in such a case, for it is righteousness that exalteth a nation." It is only fair to say that the Light shines in Italy now.—l am, etc., i * LAYMAN.