RELIGIOUS TRAINING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20090, 20 November 1930, Page 18

RELIGIOUS TRAINING.

INSTRUCTION OP THE YOUNG. [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 19. Speaking at the Wellington District Synod of the Methodist Church to-day, the chairman (the Rev. E. D. Patchett) said that figures given in the Year Hook of 1926 indicated that while there were 149,272 children receiving instruction in the Sunday schools of the Do-

minion, there were 97,461 outsid® ttj* : schools. These, figures did not " j the children receiving religious . tion in Roman Oatnolic day soooou- , Even if they made a generous esUww" of 15,000 other than Sunday . children receiving instruction itt day schools under the Nelson B*stS®> this still left over 80,000 childrea gro#-. ing ur> in New Zealand without *"■ religious training so far as the was concerned. If there were ac in the Pacific with that nupber-WiH natives on it living in heathenisin.tr*!-4 ivoukl go to any lengths to send W* J sionaries to them, yet they . strangely supine under the _stigift» ■ such a host of children growing BP,. 1 " their midst with little or no bnowWOJ® of God. . , .J The speaker said that .1 sistortoaw, of the children was the ideal. • r TL " tilings could be accomplished by -wj . j deaconess attached to a school in tho interests of tha children. *, A more dead the conscience of the. ians of the children the more must be the conscience of the lhW" i The other direction in wlucli should be overtaking their task through the medium of the Bible W .. J primary schools.