ATHEISM IN SCHOOLS
CONDEMNED EY MINISTER SYDNEY, April 6. The teaching of atheistic doctrines in universities and schools was roundly condemned by the Rev. b. 01i\ei. a Presbyterian minister, and president ot the International Evangelisation Society, who arrived at Sydney from Wellington yesterday, en route to America, via England. The majority of the students in the many universities in which he had leelured in America. lie said, believed in the existence of a. Supreme. Being, hut there was practically always a small group of men and women who prolessed atheism. Steps should he taken, lie said, to prevent professors and lecturers irom spreading atheism. He had himself led a movement of protest, which had resulted in three lecturers being dismissed from one American university. It. was remarkable, he continued, how atheism had secured a hold in many universities, lie attributed it to the. fact that many students had not had the full meaning of the existence.ol God explained to them before their entry into the university life.
Mr. Oliver has been lecturing on Biblical subjects in New Zealand, and he intends to return to Australia later and preach on similar subjects.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 13
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