THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19990, 5 November 1927, Page 7

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

RENEWED AGITATION WORKING FOR ULTIMATE SUCCESS (P«r Freis AuodatiraJ DUNEDIN, Nov. 4. At a meeting of the Otago provincial executive of the New Zealand Bible-in-Schools League discussion in the House of Representatives was reported and the following resolution was carried unanimously:— “This executive of the Bible-iifr-Schools League calls on all branches to carry on their work with increased activity, undaunted by the recent postponement of success, and more determined than ever to end the preesnt impasse. Attention is drawn to the growth in the League’s organisation. The result of the parents’ plebiscite (in New Zealand 81 per cent, and in Otago province 86 per cent, of the votes favoured the Bill); to the nature of the opposition in Parliament, which has not supported the existing system, so much as diverted support to alternative schemes of religious education, sufficient to gain thereby in Parliament a temporary tactical advantage but admitting the unsatisfactory nature oT education without religion; to the growing disatisfaetion of leaders of education in New Zealand with the national system that makes no adequate provision for the recognition of Goff and the use of the Bible in education. 4 4 The executive strrongly reaffirms its policy and urges all branches to organise still more thoroughly for victory in the near future.”