MR. MILLIGAN AND PROFESSOR MACKENZIE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 8

MR. MILLIGAN AND PROFESSOR MACKENZIE.

Bir,—Canon Garland and his fitends havo been stating all over the Dominion tliat "no education is complete without o knowledge of the Bible." Why, then, should Mr. Milligan not ask them, rather than me, what is meant by a "complete education"?- I am sorry to think that Mr. Milligan's knowledge of the BiHo is so limited that-while ho golden rule" (which is really much older than tho Bible) as. part of the Bible, ho fails to recoymso tho Lord's Prayer and the Benediction (to which ho listened on Sunday,' February 0) as part of tho Bible! Presumably they were borrowed from tho Anglican Prayer Book by Jesus and St. Paul, respectively! Mr. Milligan's "limitations" will be understood when it is romcmbercd that he stated in your own columns (I thiillt) a week or two ago, that tho introduction of tho Bible into the State schools would entail no additional financial outlay. 'Hat I take to mean that the teachers would have to go unramunerated for thci:t services! If the ICelburno Tramway Ccmpany, his employers, asked Mr. Milligan to conduct a short Unitarian service with his fellow employees every morning before starting his engine (and mado this a condition of his employment), how would he liko it? It would cost tho State end the Tramway Company nothing, and 110 union could find it in its heart to interfere! For myself, my limitations are su<h that I have learned very much during the past few years from Mr. Miiligan's many miscellaneous contributions to tho I°ow Zealand press, and it would bo but insulting tno intelligence of your readers wer« I to attempt to enumerate my obligations to him. I trust he will continue his generous efforts to improve, if not comploto, my education, and that of your readers generally. Thanking him in anticipation.—l 'am, etc., • ' EVQH, MACKENZIE. February 15.