OUR CHURCH SCHOOLS.
*— — — * THEIR PRIMARY FUNCTION. The primary function of our Church schools is to shape and mould the character of their scholars on Christian lines and m a way that is not done m the secular schools. If we are turning out merely respectable Anglicans who go into life not
. quite sure why they are , Christians our Church schools are failing.' It » is vital that the young people be given definite and dogmatic instruction of the most rigorous kind, and training, m the practice of devotion and worship. Mere ethical principle founded on the teachings at a-very-good-: man called" Jesus will not do. * The day is done when the Faith could be watered down and- still be imagined potent:— Wellington Church Chronicle.
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 June 1941, Page 4
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