BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 668, 19 November 1909, Page 8

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

;- W:u.: ; ';MOVEMENT..;; ■■ :^J- :l: 'l * ' F.or.some time, past 'there: has been, at work a new movement for the introduction of Biblereading in , tlie schools of .the Wellington dietrict. Durui? .the course-of ■, recent conVe>' satipn with DriF. -Wallace Mackenzie, who ' ■is. interesting in; the , -matter, ono of' our representatives gathered)that the movement .Was.to, be' : regarded",as;.beiDg-,disjMict, as to aims and personnel, from the existing Citizens' Bible-in-Schbpls':League, whose-efforts to make the: question a .party -issue at the'school committee, elections of.-19(18 created a' remarkable outburst'of; public -feeling.-..- ■ : ■ ; It was proposed, explained Dr* Mackenzie, to move for 'the'introduction-'of Bible-readings ,'once,; a;,-week- in .the .schools during ono halfhour .in''the mottling, , fro'm r 9:till 9.30 T]i-.pE-riericp had shown, that- when 1 the.-readings were given ! aftor school hours'they/ii ore not well attended, . There', was , 'nb intention to 1 .introduce. 1 "explanatory, notes -beyond what might bo .required.; for: geographical informa-.tion.:.,TJie'-Bible,:-.was,,a-.classic,;aiid:-.its studyas' such'.■should;-not bo denied , to'the schools. School; committees , : in • the • district , had been circulariscdiWitli.reference to the Movement, > and when roplies weie iecci\ed further>action would bo taKen. '