RELIGION IN EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 243, 14 October 1931, Page 6

RELIGION IN EDUCATION.

'I like .'to: think of His Lordship of Waikato ' as Dr. Chefejrihgton—a cheerful, virile-and: optimistic character whose forthright'- natiire makes a wide appeal, albeit that he novv and again raises protests of the storm Order.- ;is reported; in your issue, of the 9th insi:,:k ■ enunciates the purely Catholic attitudei'-towards ■•> education. "For sixty years God, lias, been ? banished from 6t» schools. Can a country be expected to succeed which gives its boys anil girls no -■ lasting basis for • building ;np character? I fail to understand how aiiy parent can send his children to be educated in an atmosphere in which he does not believe."'' Catholics, a mere seventh- of the population, provide' (or relieve, the State of) someßoo,p per annum.in a practical effort to ;do,Goo's, will. Such evident sacrifice, for principle."calls •for the support of any believer. I wouldlike'•"■ to -see'.the traditional aloofness'between, tie "separated brethren" of the" Church'which■ is numerically the strongest and that which': is probabljr the strongest spiritually dissipated g in favour of a •practical 1 inntual, help in: a question which, like .this, appeals..to.'all-bpaies, . Hvhich establish church?; schools. be no waiving-of creed-.or, dogro<t. Men jot Dr. Cherringtoh's type" could' in God's cause. . They could'demand: some evidence of, the StateVlwiUkto.aU t and so do tardy .justice at least when times improve. I can remember Dr. Gibb exhorting - Presbyterians to "like iCatholics, dot this s fair land with church schools." ' It is' at: a;, tune like this that a sore-stricken State resolve' to remember in better iimes.?|ie Catholics, whose generosity is just now making the' Government's burdens \. so : much lighter.

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