PROFESSOR HUNTER AND THE ANTI-BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS CRUSADE.

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 4

PROFESSOR HUNTER AND THE ANTI-BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS CRUSADE.

TO THE EDITOR. Ai! teaching regarding God and His law (in our public schools) is as contraband as pipe opium, Dr deary says. This is not true in Oiago to-day. Does Professor Hunter wish to make it true?

■ sir, —Professor Hunter's letters are of practical value, in most emphatically i» vealing that tie so-called National Schools' "Defence League is an anti-Bible-in-Schools league pure and simple. He cannot deny that at the league's meeting, held on the 24th April, a report was unanimously passed in which it wast said that "every National Schools' Defence League in the Dominion is irreconcilably opposed to making Bible-reading or religious instruction part and parcel of the State schools curriculum." Nothing could be clearer than such a statement of unflinching antafmism to the entrance of our greatest nglish classic, and the one outstanding moral and religious text book, is the objective of Professor Hunter's league. It only requires thia fact to be widely known to show the "narrowness and intolerance of the league that Professor Hunter represents.

Professor Runttr, in bis last contribution in your issue of Saturday, furnishes another illustration of the intolerance of his league. Ho singles out the Mornington School as the object of his attack, and he wishes the law so enforced that the ministers of religion who are giving religious lessons there should be bundled out of the school. Professor Hunter has given no evidence that the Education Act is broken in the Mornington School, and one would like to know if he has had the fairness to write to the head master of the school before he assailed the Mornington School authorities in t'his matter. Professor Hunter's actions need no comment from me further than this, that he does not seem to have laid very seriously to heart the admirable advice of Lichtenberg, the German satirist—" Train your heart to toleration." Professor Hunter makes effusive professions of toleration and chanty, but his actions (as disclosed above) show that 'lie needs to be-remlnSed of the wise wcrds of Josh. Bi'lings, who said : " That we have enough grand professions To run two or three worlds. What wo want is <a> little mora practice." —I am, etc., Robert Wood. June 8.