BIBLE IN SCHOOLS LEAGUE-

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13736, 30 May 1913, Page 4

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS LEAGUE-

DR. CLEAttY'S CAMPAIGN

[United Pkkhb Association-.]

V/anganui, Way 29. Dr Cleary, Catliolic Bishop <>f Auckl:nid, ii'lrlrossrfl a large meeting in the Opera Houso this evening. At tho co:!cli.u;ioii. Air. Aiken, headmaster of tho Victoria Avenuo School, ■sneaking ar. a Sunday school tocher or 40 years' oxporieucr.' said there, was no doubt that religious instruction should be givon in the schools, for tho ignorance of the Bib>. was ]ameutnl>le. Ho was opposed, hoo.x^or, to {jclionl tcr.chers imparting tii'at iiif.truction. Ho moved: "That h« oitizons aiul taxpayers of thi.p. Dominion wo pledge our■oeh'os to opnoso the schem-o of too Bi'ol-, ir>' ScKools Lo:i?jcu<> a* conflicting with tho lights of <'nnsc!snco, and inimical to the real interests ot ro-ll"-on. ':r:rl yolitiious po:vro." ' Tiu- uviJtion was cr.rriotl.