SUPERINTENDENT'S LETTER.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 395, 18 June 1928, Page 4

SUPERINTENDENT'S LETTER.

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS A OAAJ TO PRAYER AND ACTION. During the active campaign going on throughout New Zealand for tin* restoration of the Bible to the priniar> schools, let us get to pru>er. dear sis t-irs. Prayer changes things! In regard to the circular letter 1 sent to all WC.TD. Secretar’es asking that meet ings l>e arranged as near as possible to May 29th. when a big demonstration was to be held in th-t Auckland Town Hall. I would like to state it was in full concurrence with the Organising Secretary of *he Bible in Schools League, who greatly desires that at the ordinary W.C.T.U. m?etmg, or a special meeting to further the Bible in schools cause, the following resolution hr put to the people: “This meeting views as inadequate th* present system of education, tiecause its entirely secular principle is a menace to moral and religious welfare, a danger to the i State, and an injustice to tin* child. It therefore demands from Parliament the restoration of the Bible to the primary schools While prepared to grant to Committees the right to continue the Nelson system wherever It may be at presem operating, it views as inadequate any system that does not place the Bible in the school curriculum and cannot Ik* applied to all the primary schools of the !>«»- minion.”

You will see in the May numltcr of the “White Ribbon” the places, da **s, and speakers for meetings already arranged. The opportunity of service to the children of New Zealai I who ran not help themseleves is with us. L*t us all grasp it and restore the Bible to its rightful place, viz., in the primary schools of New Zealand. MARGARET C rook, J lorn in ion Supt. Bible in Schools. WITHOUT I>l VINK AID WE CANNOT COM PA MS VICTORY. Will You 'lake This Your Daily Prayer? Almighty God. our Heav *nly Fattier, bless, we beseech Thee, the children in tie* schools of our land, nor suffer them through our neglect to grow up without knowledge of Th *e; accept and bless our efforts for the spread of this knowledge: enlighten and instruct tlorn nds of Thy people; guide the counsels of our rulers; and grant that wseeking Thy' will above all th'ng-, may .1! L* enriched with tin knowledge of The*, and grow into a hoi*, people nceeptnhle in Thy sight, through .1* ■ us riinst om I a>r<l Amen.