PLAIN, SIMPLE CHRISTIAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 10 August 1942, Page 3

PLAIN, SIMPLE CHRISTIAN

TRUTHS (To the Editor) Sir. The Now Zealand Educational Institute's attitude to the Rible-in-j schools has been reaffirmed. It may vary in its reactions to from slightly acid to strict neutrality. Three years of war has taught Hint learned body less than nothing. Boys and girls from homes back-grounded on the Bible when they reach the leaving stage have so absorbed the neutral altitude of the teachers in many cases and equipped with a little knowledge for obtaining a more comfortable existence and the great emotional forces in people's minds as strong as life itself, have had little scope and are the prey to any compelling “ism” that can line them up successfully The more sophisticated keen the democratic ideal of neutrality. Or.e by one <uir enemies have rooted out our friends men and women, with the same ideals To-dav we have a stern duty to know why? Our enemies harnessed up the emotional forces and longings of their people from the school up We call it out-dated nationalism. They knew the danger to the State of starved emotions. We don't like to admit we have any so we develop our 'op-sided civilisation. We would do well to tell our children tullv our great national history We would guarantee the winning of the oeace and the full art of living if we told them in our schools free from dogmas and crankisms. plain simple. Christian truths.—l am. etc.. L. R. EBAN. Motueka. 7th Aug