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YOUTH of TO-DAY Many young people to-day are living not in a Christian but a Greek atmosphere, having a vague humanitarian background which they passed for Christianity, said Miss M. J. Steele, who spoke on Religious Eaucation,” at the Church of England Congress at Sydney. The decadence of home life was one of our greatest questions, Miss Steele said. ■ “The first seven years of a child’s life in the home are the most important, as it is then that its lasting impressions are formed,” she said. If the impressions received by the child in the home were with love, justice, and kindliness as the governing rules, then it would be easier for the child to believe in God, she added. Leading discussion on the subject, the Bishop of Newcastle (Right Rev. F. de Witt Batty) said that religion in schools should be recognised not as one subject among many, but as the queen science subject. He was conscious of misgivings that church secondary schools had failed to acheive the purpose for winch they were founded. The Bishop of Goulburn (Right Rev. E. H. Burgmann) said the youth of to-day was out to build a new worlu.
“It Christianity is not going to lead them, then Fascism or Communism will lead them to the devil,” he said.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3796, 17 August 1936, Page 3
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