CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 5 June 1913, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

To the Editor

Sir, —The almost impossible satisfactory solution of this vexed subject is brought again into prominence in your interesting leader of the 2nd iiltimo, an-1 lovers of children and posterity, cannot help pondering on a subject of such farreaching: possibilities. Our State schools are open to all alike, and a blessing fov the State that it is so. Our children have parents and their ministers to guide them in the religious path of their ancestors, and if parents neglect their obligations is the reading of a few verses of Scripture in our State schools going to give children any assistance? More likely to breed dissent and strife among the community with nothing achieved— perhaps much harm done both to God and man.

So long as the State does not force any particular creed in the schools —just so long—should we not do better to leave the Bible and its teaching in the hands of parents and their ministers. Bishop Cleary declared that if before the movement undertaken by the Australian (?) League was started, a conference of all denominations had been convened, some way "might" have been found out of the difficulty. What a "mighty" conference it would have been!