GODLESS EDUCATION.
0 ■ ■ ■ TO THE SDITOtt. 81*, Public attention should be drawn to a dangerous class of persons who are endeavoring to get up an agitation in favor of the reading of the Bible in our public schools. The question has been pretty well ventilated during the last few years, and it is well understood that all persons who are capable of thinking on the matter have come to the conclusion that, in the interest of true religion, the Stite should in no way meddle with it. Unfortunately, however, there are a great number of persons who have not the inclination to form an opinion on the subject for 1 themselves, and are influenced by what they hear other people say. What I desire most particularly to draw public attention to is'the presumption of a few busy bodies who are continually reminding the public, through the medium of the Press, how vigilant they are in' watching over the morality of the people. My opinion is that they should confine their twaddle to auch audiences aa they can congregate in some rural school building; and if they travel beyond that they become a source, of danger to the interest of true religion, and reqirre to be watched.—l am. &c., ' , _ Johjc Smith. Dunedin, January IS.
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Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 3
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213GODLESS EDUCATION. Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 3
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