RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 19 August 1930, Page 4

RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE.

——— SIR C. FERGUSSON ON HOME TRAINING. (FROII OTTB OTVV COBBESPOJfDEIfT.) LONDON, July 11. In opening, a fete at Bozelle, Ayr, under the auspices of the Ayr branch of the Scottish Sunday Schpol Union for Christian Education, General Sir Charles Fergusson declared that in- this country and in New Zealand the people were at the beginning of a great constructive movement towards the promotion of religious knowledge. He hoped the holding of the National Convention of the Union at Ayr, in September, would vitalise the great national work of, Sunday schools in that particular part of the country. Education in its general sense had always been one of the groat traditions of the Scottish people, and it was probably due to that that Scotsmen, were so prominent all the world over. Religious education, in a special degree, had been a great tradition of the Scottish people, and had its foundation in the early home training. It had regretfully to be said that in these modern days home training was not so strong as it used to be. There was, therefore, all the more necessity for Sunday school training. He was not suggesting for one moment that the one could take the place of the other. The two were inseparably conjoined. The fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom, and no secular education in worldly wisdom could ever be of use or of _ the same value as the strong Christian character built tip by a religious faith which was taught to a child from its youth upwards. That was what the Sunday School Union stood for. .These were the ideals which the coming National Conference was intended to promote. There was throughout the community a strong awakening to the necessity of that training. He hoped the movement would go on from strength to strength, and that those who took part in it would j find renewed hope and encouragement.