SUPERINTENDENT'S COLUMN

White Ribbon, Volume 39, Issue 465, 18 June 1934, Page 6

SUPERINTENDENT'S COLUMN

BIBLE-IN-BCHOOLS. In 1925 the Advisory Committee u African Education appointed by th, Colonial Office laid down as a ruling principle that . . . the greatest import ance must l>e attached to religion teaching and moral instruction. Both n Schools and in Training Colleges the should be accorded an equal standm. with secular subjects. History shows that devotion to son* spiritual ideal is the deepest source o inspiration in the discharge of puhli duty. Such influences should pemu-utt the whole life of the School. —An extras from “A Saint in Kenya.” I tear 1 ’otn rades, — The Bible-in-School* Bill is comm: ln*fore the House of Parliament n»v month. Will you please get in tou<: with the Member for your district, ask ing him to support the measure? Wherever possible arrange yourseh or join with those who will do so, in united meeting with good speakers support of the movement May I ask each member of th W.C.T.r. to pray daily regarding th j important measure until the Bible-n Schools Enabling Bill is on the statutj lx>oks of New Zealand. MARGARET C. COOK. Demin J Supt. Bible-in Schools. SABBATH OBSERVANCE Sunday in England Arthur Mee, the well known edit* of "The Children’s Encyclopedia," an author of “The Book of Kverlastin Things," etc., says about the Kngli* home and the English Sunday, and In words are as haunting as they ar true: No greater service can ?** rendered ! this in these trying days th to save for the next generation Utmost precious possession the last g. r. eration had. Two things this countr: has that have been an influence |*»yoii all vords of mankind trie Englt home, and the English Sunday Th' English home has sown in us the lov* of home, and of homeland, too. and r is the pride of the homeland that li been the inspiration of our rare to th< ends of the earth. The English Sunday has l»een, perhaps, the great*single factor in shaping the charactef of our race. It has given us time t<i think and time to rest. It has giv> our minds ami bodies- the chance th need. Ft has helped us to realise tl I Ihere is n glory Ix-yond tin glory o' this world, and it has kept us fit t build up the noblest and freest Ini beneath the sun. and to send out on strength to spread happiness and fr dom wherever the sun shines. It easy to let these priceless blessings but when our English home is genand our English Sunday, something w have departed from the life of our chi! dren. and front the life of our peoi ' for which there can lx* no enmpensatior A glow will have gone our of the wot' and life will never be quite so heantit'' again,

SOCIAL HYGIENE. The »ex factor in human life »h of [•ermanent importance. It is rich in beautiful possibilities. Those who attain a harmonised sex life and discover the spiritual values that attach to true <ex experience, are released for oreativ • effort and live with energy and joy. [)n the other hand, sex mishandled is Ki destructive force It has disrupted ivany societies. Its wandering from the ;i ue way paralyses the true life of in ilividtials and make harmonious and Imppy social life an impossibility, it is not too much to say that only men md women who have discovered the i, ie way in sex can build the Kingdom nf (Sod. Christ's exacting standard of conduct in connection with sex, coupled with infinitely tender way of dealing with till failures due to (Mission mishandled, offer us the one reliable guidance for this part of life. Hih teaching is no? primarily negative. The narrow way in sex is the way that leads to life. Only when the strong sex urge that is in us is held in check and th*»n collided to love, loyalty and service, does ihe in dividual attain to true adjustment, and Income inwardly harmonised.- I>r. A Herbert Gray, in “Christianity and the <’risis.” LE\(SCK OP NATION'S Aithur Mee (Editor of “My Magasays:— “Christianity is 150 times as old as the League of Nations, and it has not succeeded yet. Men have been trying to free slaves for a hundred years and they are not all free yet. Men have been fighting ignorance five bundled years, and yet it is still enthroned in high places. We have been trying to people the British Empire for a « ntury, yet one haif is empty, and most of the other half is ill-developed. It took hundreds of years to open the doors of \ Cniversity to a Non-Conformist. It took a century to give our peopl* votes. And the 1 league of nations, with the stupendous task liefore it of converting all nations, all peoples and all creeds is not 15 years old “It is an everlasting wonder that it has succeeded so far. Those who would save the world must save it through the League, and the surest hope of the League is in the hearts of the people" VR This must have l»e< n written tent two years ago. The 17.0 i-bov" honld now read about 135