BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 3

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

y [BT- XBLSqBAPH — PEKSS ASSOCIATION.] •• " DUNEDIN, 22nd April. In the course of a few remarks at tho householders' meeting in. George-street School to-night, the Rev. G. Kuowles Smith said he noticed a report in tho press that the president of the Primitive Methodist Conference was associated with the Primate and others as "vice-president in a movement to introduce the New South Wales system of Bible-in-echook into Now Zealand. Ho wished to say that the us© of his naane as president of the_ Primitive Methodist Conference was entirely without his authority. He had . never been consulted in the matter, and moreover, when the attempt was made, ■they would find him on the platform very much uguinst it. TIMARU, 22nd April. A rumour that the secularihtb intended totry to capture the Timaru School Committee because tho outgoing committee permitted ministers to give Scripture lessons, caused an unusually large number of householders to attend the annual meeting. The opponents of Scripture lessons were smothered when opposing a vote of thanks proposed to the ministers.