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BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

ADDRESS BY ME. WM. RICHARDSON,

Mr.' William Richardson delivered a short address on tho Bible-in-scliools ■question in the Bay Hall, Lyall Bay, ou Wednesday evening. Do said, as a native of New Sontli Wales, ho had long been familiar with the system, obtaining there where tho clergy of all denominations had permission on one day a week to give special Scripture lessons. He liad had seven children, all of whom received their education under this system, who were adults to-day, and all of whom' as-, sured him that the children generally liked to get such, lessons. It seemed to him to bo an anomaly to send the Scriptures broadcast among tho heathen, and, at tho same time, to bail them from our young and rising generation as though .it was an immoral book. They bad but two alternatives, secularism or Christianity. Perhaps, unwittingly, tho advocates of keeping the Biblo out of the schools had not recognised that they were promoting secularism. The .New South Wales system permitted the representatives of all denominations to give religious instruction. A perfectly fair . arrange, ment. It was true that tho opportunity given had not always been utilised by somo of tho clergy, but that was no reasonable excuse for preventing those among them willing to do so having-tho opportunities given them. He looked upon the moral and religious education of the child as being more important than the secular knowledge imparted in our ■. schools; A sound religious belief made life a discipline of goodness when the want of religion often ended in chaos. The Secretary of Education for Tasmania, in reply to a series of questions, submitted to him by the Education Department of Victoria, had made the following replies:— / 1. Our system in relation to the subject nienti'oneU is acceptable- to the Department, and so far as is known, to the teachers generally. 2. I am not aware of any objections being made to the giving of these lessons. The teaching of sacred history was part of the work prescribed for all State schools.

3. I am not awaro that any scholars had been, withdrawn from these lessons. 4. It does not appear that any sectarian feeling on tho part of teachers or scholars has been engendered in carrying out this system. •' 5. The permission to visit schools generally is availed of by many ministers' of religion, especially ill city schools and larger country schools.. Having had 47 years' experience of Teligious instruction in tho public schools in New South Wales, without any serious defects developing, the people of New Zealand need not'have any fear in adopting a similar system. -

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1947, 2 January 1914, Page 3

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440

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1947, 2 January 1914, Page 3

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1947, 2 January 1914, Page 3

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