BIBUS IK SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2133, 27 April 1914, Page 3

BIBUS IK SCHOOLS

SERMON BY GAMON GARLAND

Tiio Bibie-m-schoois question formed tho subject of a sermon by Canon Garknil at St. James's Church, Adelaide Road, last evening. The preacher took as his tttxt. tho words, "Thanks be to God whkJj gav- '. ath us tho victory through oer I^ortl, : .losn-s Christ." This, victory, tho prcttcher said, was-wdij J not for God's own triumph ( but for us. :: There were ■ people who sard that children were ■ the better for not getting any Christian tea-ching in tli.o sclioois. Why, it was only tlio ' Christian couiitrios ! which were civiKstidj and coi.ratrws which had ' rejected Cliristianity were either wiped off thomap, or wero rapidly decaying, as Franco was. He referred to the story of the mutiny of tho Bounty, and tlio''extraordinary olsango ■ that the Biblo hnd 'inwght iii i-.he'des-cendants of the mutiflefilrs. The Maoris of Now Zealand,, he continued.) swe once cannibals. In 1814 the Bev. Samuel Marsden landed in the country, and, thirteen years later, lto circulated portions of tie Scripture, so that, when Bishop Selwyn arrived lie fonnd 30,000 Maoris worshipping. A&d it was no lip-service. In support of the latter .statement, the {weather recounted the ■deeds of Christiauitv done bj , Slaoris lin war against Europeans. Ho said . that on the nrevioffis Sunday ho liad prcaohea at Oisbornc, at.a- service which was taken by a Maori, ami. whore the coiifjrogaiian was mostly EuippftUl. So there were the descendants of-cannibals pia-yhiß for the EurojKsMi's—the' d&sronrfniits of theif forefathers' enemies. Vet, uotwitiisiaiiding all. it had done, tho word of Christ was banned from tho schools. The Bible had done more For the world timn wiythinK cise. For ' Uiirt.v-sevwn .veats now this reproach had been-asainst the name of this fair land. Was ji not time to restore- tlie Bible/to the children iii their sehools? Iβ the- "■Sctoal Jour-nal" children couM read about the head of a certain p9gai> SfiCt.-' • Tho artioto tokl them the good sides of this prophet-, and the children might infer that.ka .wa.6 a good maii, Inrt the firot was tjiat he wrts a sen■sualist and a murderer. They could read in the "Journal," also, the sayines of Confucius. Bat their own Bible was denied them.

ANOTHER. ADDKESS. Cniion Garland also gave a» address in the Young Women's Christian Association's rooms yesterday afternoon. He took for his subject:. "Christ Our fesarapte." He said that wen could ro through history- and find the best and holiest, and, in all, some dofeet. might be- found save in Him of whom it was said by His judge:';"l ted no fault hi Him at all."' Summon before us, said the speaker, the best of those whom w> have personally known and in them all will h> found some inipwiectiou. Take tlio great leaders of imu and ilwse W are put forward as founders of religion,; nil are defective when compared witit Jesus Christ, Hβ atone satisfies the highest ideals of tlio human soul. His ©sample is binding on us because it- was the example sot by God Himself when hero on earth j it. was the final word for us. N« now religion, or aiiy dress, ing up of an old heathen religion should tempt Us. away from the faith o-nco for oil delivered to the saints. Tho speaker tlien urged the study of the Gospel until 0110" was Saturday with it, and passed on to make. direct reference to the TJible-in-Seliools. Of course it lvonhf 1)!> only with Christians who accepted Jesus ns Sod would his (tlio speaker , *) apppaj -lie to tab? the example ami of Jesus as the ahsointc guide and final word in everything in life

SOOX MY FOflMEft SELF. "About S years as-? t iwcl bra in poiwnitiK which cawed liver li-'QhMc," writes Mr. \V. A. Poos, Aivnat, N:.Z, "I could pot sleep- or cat, i< nd witstwl to n shadow. After taking Ohnmbofkin'. l ! TftWcfe fof a short time iiiy health was greatiy improvpil, ntid I have hntl no return of m.y trouble. 1 a»i w in goad itoalth, , nni! tpcUoii I owe it to Chamberlain's Tablets." —Acivt.