CHURCH SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18202, 13 October 1924, Page 8

CHURCH SCHOOLS.

RELIGIOUS ATMOSPHERE WANTED. i In the course of an address preisattf to Archbishop Julius at the dedicate of tho site of the St. Mark's open-air school c# Saturday, the Association of Love of God made a statement fo. daring its attitude to State and Ch®efc education. "We mourn the sad secular captivitr in the constraining bonds of which dal 1 lie education for the last fifty yLT has been fettered in this Domini(»>» stated the address. "That wc, a®' Church, should have, so long submittal * to this bondage for most of out din. dren we may in part explain, though not excuse, by the fact that ey« ha** been blinded by Il.e glamour of theijgl so attractive in n.anv of its featoMfc set up by an p!1 unwittingly misguide <■ State. Christian men and women, in bowing down at the popular cry, 'Pr« secular, and compulsory,' have saeii! ficed tho liberty wherewith in a Christ* inn State they had very property been made free, the liberty to monldaaft le.vl out the <h:>raeter of onr in a Christian atmosphere, Christian teachers teach, and Christiut, Piotives rule. Nor do we now better# that oscapo from this bondage is to bf provided by any avenue which does not restore and preserve to the Church the right to fulfill her sponsorial obligation to tho children of her baptism. . . In the course of his reply, his GractM said that ho agreed with the Associa. ' tion that the Church had to bear its share of the burden of education oa Christian lines. "The State has taken it up," he said, "but T defy the Stat* to carry it cut effectively. It is nobusiness of the Church to run down th» _ State system of education. That it - cheap and easy to do. Our bUsintW is to establish Church schools, antl', secure that which no Stato school c*V give—reiigious atmosphere. It is adit instruction which is wanted, though' that may be wanted, so much u 'atmosphere.' "