BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 6

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

(To the Editor.)

Siiv—"Sinus" state tlni't "the .great body of fe electors i.s no. wiser ajiatii the aims of tho ilible-.in>Sc ; hoo'l"s l»c,agnn than it was tea years Apt." Tlvis" fa certainly its own -fault. The -objective of the leaft'ii.o lifts, from the .first 'been quit<> clear, viz?—-"tho rcstaiiwh. of -vetreidU'S teaching iti the public schools of tho DoM'rofon : by tho iirtfiidvictioh of fliiyf. system -of -religions Jiistruc'Uon wbfcli Ivns listed in ft*\v Soni/li Wales siiie'o' 1866, TrtsniiiMm- since IS6S, Western Australia since 1893, Sorfdlk tejawt since 1904., and Onee.nsin-iid since I'3.W.

"Sysie-r ef' ii.vst'n'ieti.o.u in: State s'cltodk :pre.va.i!iiw: in. Au-straJw: linssAiis. read ill sx'/ho.ol how's hv tlio Children tUoiv>W[vos, TrOn'i. -Sfnjjljwo hooks provided hy the I'Mncntifln T)'p-.|it;>r'tm-e.n't-; State sehnrt} tos-olws s-U&ei". Vfeifift t'ke. renting, bnt not Rfrrrow sectarian or ■doan-'j.tk tra.ci.iine. Vista during school tows by niiuistors or accredited ie-Tpivr-s fi-oiii tho i<ljwvfei ii-.siriu-tiOE cljildrciii in tht' fsißl'-i af their fatlnM's. feuseiciveo Chuiso hv which tho went lin-s ctmsplefo -cott'-Util *!)f the child's roli£i;i(}us tatruetiou In tho mfivlip sift. c.t«..

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