BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

White Ribbon, Volume 41, Issue 489, 18 June 1936, Page 8

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Dear Comrades, — It will interest and give you great cause for rejoicing to know that in < >tago, Canterbury and Wanganui Districts, i.e., from Clinton North to Kaikoura, and from Wanganui to Palmerston North and Tuihape, in these areas School <’onunittees have permission from the Hoards to reduce the school hours b> five minutes each morning to allow of opening religious observances lieing conducted (hymns. Lord’s Prayer, and Scripture reading), as in the High Schools, and where there are sympathetic head teachers this can Is* arranged through the Committee. Will members of the W.C.T.U. in these districts please get in touch with the local ministers to do all in their power to get such opening exercises initiated in the primary schools, and do aU you possibly can to co-operate in discovering schools where committees and head teachers would be willing to use these facilities? Where the Nelson system is in operation, the School Committee can pass a further resolution that the time of opening the school shall be 9.10 ant. on the other mornings of the week, to allow of hymns, lord’s Prayer, and Scripture reading. I.#et us use every opportunity possible to enable the children to learn the Word of God. That is our obligation as members of the W.C.T.C., and God grant we shall very soon have religious observances part of the school curriculum. M UUI VRET C. CCM d<. I>ominion Supt. Bible in Schools Dept.