BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
CANON GARLAND AT ST. ANDREW'S. The Rev. Canon Garland, who is under the auspices of tho New Zealand Bible-in-Schools League, conducting a platform campaign in New Zealand in support of tho introduetion of a 6ystem of Bible lessons in State schools, addressed a meeting in St. Andrew's, Wellington Terrace, last evening, the Rev. J. Gibson Smith presiding. Canon Garland said, in the course of _ his remarks, that he felt honoured in being accredited by the Presbyterian Chnrch of Australia to the Presbyterians of New Zealand in this cause, and went on to explain the system which it was proposed to introduce, laying special emphasis on the conscience clause, which, ho pointed out, would restore liberty of conscience to the parents in New Zealand. It was not the league's desiro to introduce a special text-book for the teaching of religion, but simply to seo adopted a book of selected scientific lessons, and tbey would be quite prepared to trust to a selection by tho Education Department, as had been done by the Queensland Education Department. It had been contended by objectors to the movement that its aim was, in effect, to destroy our national system of education. So far from that being tho case, said tho speaker, they, on their side, claimed that the movement was in the direction of supporting the national system, by uniting the people and the churches and the electors in the advocacy and establishment of a common principle, and with the result that no attempt upon the national system in favour of another system could hope to succeed. The history of the word "secular," in its application to education, showed that it implied the antithesis of ecclesiastical control, but that did not imply the equivalent of a candition of atheism. It was first nsecl in New South Wales when the •State aid for denominational schools was abolished, when all State aid was removed from ecclesiastical control.
Canon Garland will speak at the Vivian Street Baptist Church this evening.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1542, 11 September 1912, Page 2
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335BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1542, 11 September 1912, Page 2
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