BIBLE IN SCHOOLS INTOLERANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 6

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS INTOLERANCE.

(To the Editor.) sir,--1'l)o titutoment is constantly bein;; sn.ulo by the ■memlhors of the 'ftifrle (clergy) in Sdhools League that their ]invptei\l t*y.*to.ni works <\vpll that it creates no friction, that it promotes religion.-- poju-e. Jt wilj 'be interesting, therefore, to relate two oceurrenms of recent xiate wliiuh illustrate •thp bitter, intolerant and unchristian temper that. oven, at this stajjo. i.s abnu-d a.nrnnjjst the advocates toward all t'hiu.-e who oppo.se them, (lanon (iarland (official organiser of tlie C'lcrjry Leapio) preaching at <;"p=fl>orne on Sunday. April 19. 1014. sind -reported in the " Wii-borne Times." on tin , .following day. warned Ills 'hearers that the opponents of the Ixuifjue. "no matter lioh- pood their motiiven may have been, would at thp Day of Jiidgmpnt. lifsw froun the li|)« of tlie C!hri«t Vho word*. 'Depart from mo: I never knew van.'" Tlie full text beinj;: " Deport from Mv yo curs-eii, into eternal lire, prepared for the devil and !hie angels." (Matt. xxv.. 41.) | A t=won<l insranve of t'hie same spirit •being exhibited wita at Urey Lynn on 'WedtiesdviT evening 'lust. Tin- National Schools Uivfem-p L«iprue engaged in the ordinary way the Oolumba 'llnU for a HioeUiiß, at •whrcli the national orjfaniaor, Hie R»v. T. A. W'illianis. i»|x>kc. The Anglican vicar, i do not 'know hi* naimv, attended the meeting and slid thai bho liiill w-.us let without liis kii'ffwledjfp. liut ii he hail 'known In- would not have ■jIJow«1 the hall to »h« used for .-u<ih a purpose, and 'protested uj>a.incst the mep.ting ilieiujr held. Itoving: prcvimi-Jv. in 'the afternoon, j-efused tv allow a 'nii'.inlbi'.r of the expvutive of the N.5.D.1.. to put up a notice <>f Mip mefttiil}* on the noliee lKjiird. A peivon ipresent asked the proti"*iins vi«r.ir if lie i won Id tillmr the :haH to ibe let for a danve. "V«, for a dance." i\vas the reply, lint lie protested strongly against, a. meeting for i.lie protection of inn -present i-ipiendid Kysiein of education, nt <vvhkih the principal addre.-s iviw to he aivon by a minister of relijiion. Hieliap iSpratt emulates the ~.i,me intolerance in his speech to Synod, to, which you so ably referred in your leader I of a day or two »ino<-: "The Referend-im ' with our question and our question : ■ only." Xo one elee 'has the rijht to haro pvpn a question submitted Tkhen I the*e cilerical Dukes of Guise are on the stump. fHnp7'7 foremrnin;; <i.f the fierce ri"li prions battles that ■will i-ask tihis conn- ! try if the oicrlcviasticnl tyrants £?t power ' : in' our tchcois.-'l am. etc.. : fIOWUBD EULiIOIT. i L 1