BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
DOMINION ETFCLTIVg. MEETS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
MASTEBTON, Friday.
A large meeting of the Dominion executive of the Bible-in-Schools League was held yesterday in Wellington. Canon •James presided. The committee on organisation, recommended a mora vigorous and progressive policy. This waa approved, and an additional full-time organiser was appointed.
Tn reporting the fortunes of the league' 3 bill in the Legislative Council, the Parliamentary Committee intimated that the acid test had been placed on the professions of faith uttered by their opponents in their support of the Nelson system. The committee had been ready to accept such a definition of the kelson system, as now carried on, as would give it a clearer legal standing. Their opponents refused this, just as they had refused the league's bilL A long discussion on the Nelson system revealed active and regular participation of the great majority of the ministers present, but the unanimous verdict showed a growing sense of its inadequacy. ~ Eight denominations in the league reaffirmed support of the Religions Instruction. BiD, 'with, its freedom from coercion of either teachers or pupils.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 12
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