THE BEST PHILOSOPHY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 6

THE BEST PHILOSOPHY.

• THE LORD'S PRAYER IN THE .. SCHOOLS. : The question as to whether, copies 'of, the Lord's Prayer should be hung : on tlie walls of. State Schools cropped up y at the• meeting of the Wellington Education Board held yesterday, ilr. Colemail Phillips, of 'the Wairarapa, • recently presented live copies of the Lord's Prayer to: the Carterton School, with the request '. that they might be hung in the class-' . rooms. The committee accepted the gift on gaining the sanction/ of , tlie board .to .their.' being exhibited; in . the school.', . . ' During a-rather lively discussion, one member suggested that ,this might be the thin end of the' wedge of the Bible-in-schools, ■ and the board should be carefulwhat , action it took in .the matter. Another member offered the ..opinion :that "the' Lord's 'Prayer embodied the best philosophy of the Christian . mind. : The chairman quite .agreed: that it', might be the best philosophy, . but he did not know where ,it was,.-going, to stop. ' ' V X l ' " llr. A. W, Hogg opposed tho_ motion to admit the Lord's Prayer placards, and moved an, amendment, ,<which was ruled out. as a ' direct ■■ negative,' and finally it was decided on a vote. to.allow the Car. terton Committee to display the placards in question. -