PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
[Per Press Association. 1 Wellixotox, to-day. The Presbyterian Synod finished its sittings to-day with a quantity of routine business. At the Presbyterian Assembly the following was moved : — "That the Assembly reallirms its position in relation to our national system of education ; that, while opposed to denoniinatioiialism, yet it holds that no system is complete without the introduction of the Bible into our public schools. It requests Presbyteries to do all in their power, in co-operation with other Churches, to get the law so changed as to allow the Bible, guarded by a time-table and conscience clause, to be introduced into our national schools. " An amendment was tabled as follows : — " That the General Assembly resolves that, after this year, the Bible in Schools Committee be discontinued, and that the attention of our ministers, oilicers, and people be directed to tile facilities now enjoyed under the Education Act for giving Scripture lessons in secular schools, and urges that adjutage be taken of the same." After a brief discus-ion the motion was carried. The next meeting of the Assembly will be held in Christchurch on the second Tuesday of Febiuaiy, 111U0.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8448, 21 February 1899, Page 3
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