BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
THE NEW SOUTH - WALES SYSTEM. At the Methodist Synod yesterday morning the Rev. A. C. Lawry (Napier) moved in the direction of setting up a conference committee to consider the various schemcs for Bible teaching in schools. 11l seconding the motion, the Eev. W. H. Speer (Pahiqtua), a New South Welshman recently, arrived in New Zealand, gavo an explanation of the system adopted in New South Wales. He stated that the present system was a monument to the statesmanship of tho late Sir Henry Parkes.- - For-many- years -it had- workcilsmoothly in that Stat » As'a boy ho had benefited by it,, and ho lived to. become ail impartar' of Biblical instruction-to other boys by .this means. Th« system gavo opportunity for .'clergyman .to givo .religious, .instruction, and tho parents always had ...the. right, of. preventing., their children from attendance. at tiro classcs if sncli was their desire; ' There was'no cause of complaint in that State, and the system had found favour': in'adjacent colonies. ' ■' Tho Synod mnde 110 decision in regard to any particular system, but the general principle was unanimously affirmed in the carrying of the motion-.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 11
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189BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 11
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