SECULAR SCHOOLS.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —The Rev. Mr. Ramsay says “Our schools stand for the right of private judgment.” Yes, that is so. I remember the headmaster of a State school, the manager of a bank, and myself going into a public hall, in which a masked domino dance was being held. Four or five boys stood just within the door, sons of the chief Presbyterian families of the place. As we entered, one of them said, “Is thia the Holy Ghost?” and at it they all laughed. I choked the laughter in his throat, and almost think I saw the devil grinning out of the eyes of the lot. I had often talked with that headmaster (a Presbyterian) of the gross immorality that went on in the school, and he always replied it “ wasn’t his, duty to watch them out of school.” showed me letters, containing the' most abominable filth written by girls in the school, and sent to a relative of his own, and he intercepted many others in the classroom itself.—l am, etc.,
CIVIS.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 67, 1 March 1911, Page 11
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