BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 7

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

ORANGE LODGE HESOLFIJOW

iUf TfllSsraji.b.-I'Mss Association,}

:•• -,:.• , ; ,HaStings,'April 1* At th.o : -ce!iferei)(;o.of tho Grand Letfco of tho Loyal Oratigo Institution of New Zealand.,. th& following rojoiation was earned:—"Tho Grand- Lodge M tho Loyal. Ofango -Institution of 2W Zealand .reaffirms its support of tiro Bible* in-SehoQls League as tho only jjjtaetical sohtign. by which tho-Bitto and' its teaching can ho rpstered io the Deopio's schools, Tho ,©and Lodge stgak endorses tho request for tho rßfcmid-vmi ■asked- for by the BiMe-jfrStato-Seliaols Leagn-tt, ana points out that- «niy refusal an Hie part of .Pariiajnent ta grant the vejotoudmn asked far in the iiijiiie <tl & very iargo niajority of t!i& populutlon wWd be ail endorsement by Par'liftnießit of thb pssHion laid down by Roman CatMfe appsneiits that tho referendum should not ho taken. In fiffeet, tho *ofusal of a referendum wonjd be to accept tho theory of tins' Bomaii Catlidio GSurch that the peo.pl© nre not ■allowed to settle their own affairs."

OTACO AMD SOUTHLAND VIEWS.

At a meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of Otago and Soubhla,n<il held JaSk wcok tho felWhift resolution in sup' port <>f tto> lieague. was wnaiumeusl.y carried :•*- "TJ-iis meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of Otago and Southland, representing the members and adherents of fclw Presbyterian Ohur-cjies ol Otago and Soirfihkttd, pledges itself to support the platform of the Oible-inrStttteTSdiooie league, agreed xtpok by the General Assembly, and «mee more requests that a refeesidujn ef tho wWio people of the Dominion, lie taken «jwn the qiwstien. This meeting, espressos the eanviistTon that iiiasniiwii' as tho ■referendnm li?s been repeatedly retjHfisted l)y tlw tc-epec-tivß gflVGfning caurts of four donoMMiiations, representing 73 per cent, of the papulation, which request lifts been reiterated by tile cousMiutimmee of tl)05.o d«wx»!nnatioßa, and fwtlipr ondersed. by a. request- ifi writing mgned by upwards Af 133,006 individual (fetors, tbo Gavo.rnni.en| is more tiv.an, Aniply justifiecl in ■facilitating the wWies' nf au'eli a large proportion of $bo peapfe. Moreover, as the request m not asldiig fhe Government to decide on the merits of llio league's projxjsats, but to aßove tile people of tiro Donrinion to come to a decision t'heinselvos on tiro waiter, this meeinp would regfo!;- any .affltimi .011 the part of tji-o Gffvoriinie-iw w'Mbli, by leaving the question standing over, would thereby constitute it a clisturWng factor at the nest gftnerai deetion," Professor Didde, in sewm<Mn,R t'lie motion, said that ns he Tvafi nioi -present at tlie Assembly lw»H in ,Chn>tehure : h, l\i> *»s pleaeed to lie α-lilo to liavo-ttie opportunity of piiWicl.v e'sprcssina Wre conviction tltat the pntposttl :o.f We Bible'in-State~Sdvook Lpmsuo was tlio tiw&t statesinaniike, sen-siWo, and workaWe wetivod of wsteriftp B.iWieal teychine, a ltd specifically Clwis-tkii teaehing, into tie State schools. !