BIBLE IN STATE SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 2

BIBLE IN STATE SCHOOLS.

WOMEN'S ATTITtoE

Following upon tiro devotional exercises Attended in ChrUtohtireti Cathedral on Wednesday morning, the annual meeting' of the Mothers' Unioii for tlie Province of Canterbury was hold in the afternoon, when about 400.representatives were present from various parts of the country, and representing all tlass.es in the- conimnnity. In the course of the mooting it was stated llt.e-re- were a'BO-iit 4000 members- of the tinfoil in the! Donliiiifiii, nehrly half of whom were in Canterbury. - Tho meeting was demote] chiefly. !n tho e'on-skleratioH of the .IMblo'.in-seliool-s ijuesti'on, iii- tho course of ivlijeh it was stated that (fitly one braite'lt in tho whole Dominion Was ..known not to bn actively supporting the movement, and that 'with hardly any 'exceptions every individual member of the union liail pledged herself to support the Biljie-in-Staie.; Schools' Leagwo . ' pt&tforn'i. Before .tic iffiijieediiigs closet), tho fxi.lf lowing rpsohitiißi was carried, amidst rrtttbli ohtinisiasiijj and without a d'iseoi.itjrint 3- — .?:„- !'- : '-" ; - ,; ', : -. ' "That" this ;• Mothers' Usiion--fiji''"tli6"ft'fflvrac'e''"<)f : ; GantorlMry, representing 37. brantfe, ; with a membership- of nearly J.OOO, ex* presses its imaftiWris triirl hearty. sup* j port 0f... Kti%-iV-;%atq iSghooMl League; .-.wwHSCJifittl 1 . WfltStiVM&vA eemed with .-flics moral Welfare of the 1 shflctaoii of -New .Zealand, we are c'oii- [ vinced-•• that; tte 3? years of agitation f for ftdigio'iisi inntriiclinn in . State schools should no longer bo nrotrae.ted; as an tirganisntinii indc-peMlelifc of the Hiblc4n-.St.-itc' Sehorils' Leasiio, r :'wffl Urge upon tlio Government that. Any further delay th'granting the ritfrrertduffl wilt cause many of us t.6 pliieo Use Biblc-isi-sobools (jnestinn befort any Party issue, ■fir any other ; we Itoliwe tint the granting <lf the refereiidum in the coming session \vt?i save us from;taking tliat course wliicfi ftvi earnestly trust We shall iiot r bo forced ilito." '. .