RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS.
A meeting of the Cathedral Union wat held-at the Christ's College Library last evening, the Very Rev Dean Harper presiding. The GHwnnan referred to the question of Bible reading ia , Stats schools. He etai tiat tfoa~ clergy had met, end' it had feeeaf ' suggested that the public schools should be opened with the Lord's Prayer, "and that religious instruction should be pro-, vided in school hours by this teachers. A conscience clause would be providwl to protect both teachers and scholars. The moremeat had originated in Wellington, and had been warsnly taken up in Nelson, Auckland and Dunedin. A meeting of th*' Christchuroh clergy had been held that afternoon, and it had been decided to assist the movement in every way. Tl» matter would probably bo brought pro-, minently before the pablio shortly, and k: had been decided' to ask the olergy t»? preach on the subject in Octobers Th« general election would be held early ia' Deoember, and if they wished to make *, change in the Education. Act, they mart' go vigorously to work at once.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12910, 2 September 1902, Page 3
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