CHIEF RABBI AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 406, 15 January 1909, Page 7

CHIEF RABBI AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

'Sf Miery\tlie Chief Raiibi,: speaking .ta' the BfoiliteSbu'ry: SSyhagqgti'e Clas'se.B recently, dealt with what hs called.'! ajiubtfct tliat.had;, comb recently witliin his" own . ken: and purview aS'i. result, .• faf■,- ,;sbf rowful.,. experience. 'There we're parents, who, were, indifferent ; in regard to: th<s ' religious instruction bi :. tlteir children. foi'borfe frdm hayinga reli-gion's'-tx&etet-ihilhilr. lioinfe'S) dfid ffbni |e)Vdf ■ ins "their,childrelv to syii'ag&gtte blasts. .They senY thbif,dauptefs. t« .O.hiireh. of EhgMd girls' schools;'to'd.tlieif 'soils; W public ~ schools: Mere; attendance.,at chapel wal'afc inbst: i' } :. aiid.. where My. were ■allowed to take" part in, Christian religious in* stru'ctibii. y ■;.These; -children., knew, nothing about their own iTttdaisfii; ; thSiJhly faitli 5f which ."they heard ■...was Christianity, aha. \vliehtH6y gfSw.bUler.bccaine.apostates, and when , they; seyerod their 4 .connection ..with Judaism t)ie~ parents" "realised with keen remorse \of..which they had ■ b'eefi guilty 1 ." Dr-.Mler-theh atldfessed thecMidfeiii urging,-tliem\to grb#up worthy citizens' of the. Empire) Worthy fnoilibers of this community, wbrthj'-sons and ddughtei-s of the House of Israelj; who. Would ever kee.p'.aibft the nasi of Judaism, continue to. proclaim to the world : th6: belief ih:the,Olie.tr"ue .God,; the : pfadtice ; of v .hioi-ality, aiid doing the .right tiling, -so jtliat feftef a long, and happy life. ■. they, niight jog'ctjme hereafter the ihheritbfß of the Kingdom of God 1 in Heaven.