PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 263, 10 November 1906, Page 7

PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

BIBLE IN SCHOOL?. (By Telegraph.—Press Assnciation.) DUXEDIK. Friday. Tho Presbjterian Assembly to-day adopted the report on Sabbath school examinations. Jt was resolved that ''Pilgrim's Progress should replace ".Men of the Covenant," as the subject of ihn essay. lie report on the training "f home missionaries was adopted, and the llevs. G. Bishop, J. A. M'Kenzie, Thomas I".' Mc, and J. LopduJl were declared missionaries in full tt incline. The Churrh property vp]iort, onuinorWtng a number of beque.sta and donations, and llie new ■ •..•uuiry fund report, notifying the In*us granted, wpru adopted. The report of tho Bible in Schools Committee stated that the hopes e-nter-tained a year that tho prenera] election would advance ihe ratiae of Bible in schools by bringing tho Plebiscite Bill within mru«ur:iblp distance were nniiappily falsififd by the event. Very lew of the lnemb.T- ~\ ihr- new Parliament favour uny form "f Bible tejioh*g in national schools, and only some "0 of them have promised to support a. special referendum of the question to we electors. In the face of these things w executive of tbe Referendum League /Mid -oniy contludf that tiic time was Opportune for the eontinuancn of the Bj npaign which they had been stremr- »% condnctint; up to the date of the Wion. Yen- repretfiilly they re-solved wuiscontinue the si-rvice's of the agent, W to desist from the 1 ,,v~e, 1 t from the. tWous uther B.'tiviti,.* in whir!, they eti-;ipp,|. t>,, r-llnwini? dcliv- '"«"«■. was M |n,,te.l : -The Oeeply n-grfjs Uial effort, ~„( forl-h In Kwrefrom Parlinnlni » plnin iinnrnhi- ~/ 11,,. ~,,,-Uon ot Bible '"schools to the ,-K,.,.,i. f,,r their dohav<. not \m 1,,-,-n M.-eessful: in Jtttheexocutiv,. ~f H,, Referendum view i., ~b- liuinf. Irffwla- ! on necessary to eff«,.i t^, : - object, and ),a ke such utlinr sii-P, ;i,- in.iv seem 'iNient f,,r ih- fiir'.r:.-Mnop "of th t enjoins miniwr? (■■ imprrss ; 3a r people with ih, paranomit import«eof_the rrstoraUon of the Hihk- to Public schools, and the dnnjrftr to £*>flwiw»ll.beiii ß ~t n,, nation from »ly fiP , ula ,->!,. of prodPhiniliiUty ..f ihrir ,-ongfc fa every Rchcml i,uo whirh ««•.*« ,(» ' )e stained, iindor conditions that "™d some hop, „; ~ ~..,;,.,::.. ir^ili. «tl Vf ecd ' °" fh< ' '■^ommert.lat.i.-n I lofn-L eolo "' Ml fommittee, i^£f:ott tomar?ydurinsthei;