BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 10 February 1913, Page 4

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

, ADDRESS BY. PROFESSOR "../../ , , <:;;'MACKENZIE. 1 ' ';/,' : -' ":/. ;'.- Professor Mackenzie,gave an,address on, tho,Biblc-in-schools question at the Unitarian Church last night.. He, replied >at ■. V length to recent statements by Canon ', Garland; organiser of the Blble-in-Schnohv League. Professor Mackenzie said that • from inquiries made by, him during, the past few months he was satisfied' that, An. „ ; ; overwhelming majority of the teachers in : the Dominion were against tho Bible-in-Scliols' League (the vote of, 43 .to 7- at the meeting iof -the Educational Institute. > placed that beyond disputo-the : seven . merely-■■voting for a referendum). school inspectors, though they sat low,, wero almost to a man against the league 3 ;, objective. At least Ml per cent, of tho members of the University -College .ftnfa wero against imposing th* task on Mate school teachers; while the HHpor cent, or ton) tho Biblo as tho "Basis of Morals, a.,d(iChristchurch) as of morals/' Hooha tenged him to find a einZ recognised authority on ethics who •. accepted that view. There were two pix)- _, feSs and two lecturers in New Zealand , w\"ht. ethics (or »««Wft If any ono of them accepted that view, lie (Wssor Mackenzie) would • »ak».a handsome contribution to tho Biblc-in-Schools' League's funds. . ~ Professor Mackenzie stated that qmto , an army of women, and not a few cuiita, were securing signatures t, p edgelrd, and in their canvass some. ;of S in "the wlhles and ; wickedest misrepresentations « * ll £ olinvnctor and motives of the pponenis « the movement. It would shortly bo tho duty of ft" dof^ce,)W«.l«J'" the attention of tho Government to ho „ mPthod? bv which signatures were <.bv "in 1 to ime of theplcdgccards. Canon.. Grtt friends kept toprcsenting the Protestant opponents, of h» «««•■ *° "Secularists," :which is a gross, m.BKprt- , "iSofcSor-Mackenzie then' sHimmed up, the rase against the Bible in schools,-the _ cbjectwo o" tho Bible-in-Schools 1 League, »nd tho referendum.