BISHOP WALLIS AT THE CHURCH CONGRESS.
"HEATHENISM" IN iNEW ZEALAND. AN EXPLANATION AND A VINDICATION. (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Bishop Wallis, in the course of a letter to tho "Post" witn reference to his cabled remarks at the Melbourne Church Congress, bays : '•'The subject we were discussing 1 was obstacles to religion in Australia. 'In the course o'f the discussion I stated that the most formi-d-^b-le obstacles hi my own colony were iKe growing scarcl-ty-of religious instruelio • in our homes, and the total a isenco of re] g-ious ' nstruction from the curriculum of our State Schools, and that in consequence, despite all efforts of Christian, ministers, a large part of our population was becom ng heathen.", i The Bishop adds : '"I ljeliove this statement toIk> perfectly true, and have mado it again and again in ew Zealand. I had no thought of comparing 'this colony with Australia.. aor was I speaking unjustly or ungenerously of a land which, haa been my home for nearly 12 years, and which has become very, dear to me."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 5 December 1906, Page 2
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