RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.
RESOLUTION AT SYNOD. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 21. “Civilisation made its most retrograde step when it handed over education to the State.” said Archdeaeon W. Bullock at the Wellington Diocesan Synod to-day in a debate on the question of religious exercises in schools. He expressed the opinion that the church should demand its right of exercising guidance in the minds or God’s little ones. Tlie debate arose from a propos.nl by Rev. N. F. E. Robertsluuve that the Synod should congratulate the Wellington Education Board on extending to schools not at present enjoying the •weekly half-hour religious instruction provided bv tlie Nelson system the right to delay the opening of school five minutes dailv for religious exercises. The motion was carried by a considerable majority.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 6
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