BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 695, 25 October 1913, Page 8

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

Extremists Clamour for the Bis: Bite.

IT is plain that the' sectarians regard the Nelson system as unsatisfactory and inadequate. The Bible-in-Schools League- demands nothing lesa than everything. Its claim is .definite. "The matter will not rest until we have in our schools the Word, of God and the right of Christian ministers as such to teach the children the faith' <5f their fathers."

So that modem men of honest convictions will do well to face the position. The League is -out to win back all the bygone menace of sectarianism in education. The curse -of bigotry in education is to be made potent again.- We are to forego all that true democracy has set up and fought for. We are to blow out-the light and sit contentedly in the dark. We are to give everything over to the zealots and the bigots, the experts in religious dissension, the professional advocates of the system that supports them. \When that is once understood by the people, the whole demand of the -League will be blown away bv a. gust of public execration and derision.