THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 7

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

: In an address given at/.Christchurch Bishop .-Julius s a ia-:-T!ioy firmly believed that the basis of alleducation was religion In New . Zealand■ thus religious basis had been .frankly elnrkcd by the State, and; the secular basis snbstituted. - This was pure co^-aTclice —to let .religion go—and was a- cause from which they were suffering to-day. The longer the existing sy^m ,va«, maintained, the ' Skater the ulamate difficulty- avouM "be. The resolute offered by the introduction of- the sys r •torn" prevailing in New South Wales receivedhis support." Tliat.was lunv working satisfactorily ther^and inQueensland, .Tasmania, and \\ est Australia. The teachers- were not ■ afikeo to teach religion, but merely to use the Biblo as'the text-book, and expound facts of history and geography; end eo.prepaio the child for the direct teaching of the religious worker, liie present system was. built on a rotten foundation, and it w*§ wrong,; for a email minority ,to pre/ent the large majority from -doing that, .which, it desired'to do in the way of .remedying matters' H<j wanted the people of this country to be a-low-d to express thenvoice. If that were done, he had little fear of the result. In the mcantims ifc'was-tlieir lot to take up the burden and'insist upon that privilege being theirs. ■. ; ■. ■ ' ■■,___ ''.-'■■ ■■'■'.