PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12647, 10 November 1906, Page 9

PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

(rBXsS ASSOCIATION TKLZGJtAK.) DUNKDIN, November 9. Tho Presbyterian Aeeombiy to-aay adopted tho report on Sabbath eoucol t;xu,mi nations. It was resolved tnat tho Pilgrim's Progrrtse should replace Wits Man oi Ckmuaut as tiw suojcct of this essay. Tuo report on training Home missitiiiurice was adopiod, and J. Bieiiap, A. M-cKoiizio, J. IWiruis, F. ltme, uiui J. 1*,p,.a1l were declared mi&eion-an-tis in lull standing. Tiio O.iurah i'roper.y roport, enumerating tho numbor of boquoete and dilations, and Uio New Century Fund report, noufyjng the Joans granted., wero adapted. it woe to express sj-mpathv with t!io Biblo and Tract Society in ...c lass sustained by tiio recent iiio in its premit-'os. Tlw ifixjit of tho BiWe-in-schoola OoniiiiittiH) statod, inter alia:—"Tho hojxe entertainod a year ago that tho general election would advance tho cause of Biblo-in-schools, by bringing a jj'lebbci'to B;ll well wrthin ir.oawi.ra *■■ distance, were unhappily falsified. Very few of the members of tho new Parliament favour any form of Bible teaching in tho national schools, and only noino thirty of them have pro-mi-i-d to support a special referendum of tho question to the electors. In fare of thrso tilings, the executive of tlu- I?efpr<>ndum League could only ronrltid«> that th» time waa iiiopportuno (or tho rotitinunnce of the wunpaifpi wliicli t)iey }kkl 1-een ptrfnuoii.sjj* eon<luftin.n up to tho ditto of tho election. Very regretfully they resolved to diecontinno the Kcrvice of the a.ovnt, and to .losJst for the present from tho virions oth'.»r activitiiw in wliich iJioy had been engaged. The following deliverance v>aa adopted :—''lTio deeply recrrcts that tho efforts put forth to secure from Parliament a plain uivamlvguone reference of the question of Bible-in-flchools to th© e'ertore for their decision have not yet been euocescful: instructs tho committee to co-operate with the executive of the Referendum Loasiue. with a view to obtaining the legislation necessary to effect "this object, and to tako euch stepe an may t-rvin e";[»"difnt for furtherance of the movement ; t'nj in.s niiirititers to impr.B3 their people* with tlio paramount im{x>rtance of the restoration of tivi Bible to tho public schools, jinil tlie danger to the mo al uell-hein.i! of the nation from the purely 6*< character of the pr<'.s<'iit curriculum, and commends to I'linisters tiiv fireat desiraiulity of i)it»ir conducting clnMvw for Biblo reailinz and study in every school into wiiich can !*> obtained under conditions that afford soino hope of a proa table result."