RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
DAILY DEVOTION UPHELD REQUEST FOR RETENTION (Per Press Association.) OAMARU, this day. The Oamaru Presbytery yesterday passed the following resolution: "Whereas the aim of education is the building of character, of which sound morality is the basis and whereas religious sanction is the only effective guarantee of such morality, the presbytery welcomes the formal approval of religious instruction in primary schools, embodied in the bill now before the education committee of Parliament, but it earnestly requests the; Government to abandon the proposal to stop the practice of opening schools daily wi+h a five-minute period of religious devotion. The wide adoption of this practice in recent years, and the increasing popularity with the public and the schools staffs, vindicates the custom sufficiently to warrant it being formally recognised as the normal and desirable extension of the Nelson system. Its enforced abandonment would affront the christian conscience of the Dominion."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 6
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