Hospital Sunday School “Too Exciting” For Child Patients

Northern Advocate, 24 January 1939, Page 8

Hospital Sunday School “Too Exciting” For Child Patients

-DR. J. W. CRAVEN SPEAKING AT A MEETING OF THE AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD ° LAST NIGHT, THE CHAIRMAN , MR ALLAN 3. MOODY, SAID: “TO BE QUITE FRANK, I WOULD NOT HAVE CHURCH SERVICES HELD THERE AT ALL; IT IS ONLY TORM ENTING UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE.” $

The board received .a recommend that the conducting of Sunday School pended, as it interfered with wax’d w Dr. J. W. Craven, the medical su for some years Sunday School had b sentatives of the Bible Training Insti members of the nursing staff in these useful purpose was being served. “The methods .adopted are some difficult to maintain, and, as regular c the hospital, including these wards, it School be discontinued.

L ation from the Complaints Committee L in the children’s ward should be sus- ' crk. : perintendent, said in his report that i een conducted in two wards by repretute. He had conferred with, the senior i wards, and they did not feel that any r i what unorthodox, and discipline very i hurch services are held throughout : is recommended that the Sunday

Mr J. V. Macky . suggested that the matter should be referred back to the committee for further consideration. There was immense value in Sunday School training for children, and the board should do nothing destructive of children’s religious life. “Just a Travesty.” Later in the meeting, Dr. Craven was called upon to give a verbal report. “The discipline and the whole thing are just a travesty of a Sunday School,” he said. “I am not against Sunday Schools, but I think there is far too much excitement. I do not think it does the children any good.” Dr. Hilda Northcroft: “From Dr. Craven’s report it would seem that the spiritual good is negligible and the physical harm considerable.” Members of the committee responsible for the recommendation emphasised that they had reached their decision only after earnest consideration, and they appreciated the value of religious instruction. The proposal was referred back for further examination.

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