OPPONENTS OF THE BIBLE LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 8

OPPONENTS OF THE BIBLE LEAGUE.

Si.f,—ln your issue of April 21 Mr. • Thos. A Hunter complains that tho ' Bioie-in-Statfj-Suhools League, spits -of j its name, "is not advocating t-he intro- i duct-ion of the Bible into tuo. schools.." i Further, that Bishop Sprott, spite of j his belief "that it is the Bible —tlio j whole Bible—that is fitted to cftY.et thft ■strejigtlioning of that consciousness of ; God that lies at the basis of moral obli- , gat-iaij, js also not advocating the intro- j baction of tho whole Bible into tko ; schools." 1 should have tliouglit that; , Mr., Hunter, ivith his commeiwlabto soli- , cititdo for tho Bible and tho whole Bible, might by this time have arrived at a i better comprehension of tho league and its purposes. By way relieving his fears, 1 will repeat—with your permission—a few sentences from an iuld.ress delivered in Dunediu in reply to Bishop Cleary "Ho asserts that wo purposo only some cmascuhtcti caricature of the Bible; hence h-avo no right to the name 'Bible-in-*State-Schoo!s League.' But if I oiit-er tlio school to teach, I take with mo the Bible:, I supply Bibles to my class. We want the children to lw« tlio Biblo whoa they see it., to "iaiow it as a whole, that there is au Old Testament and a New Testament, that it bogins with Genesisiand ends with Rove-l-ation—what tho Bible means for them, lias to say to thoai, what placo it showld hold in their life. Wo mean to put the Biblo into the schools with our own hands. This is tho second feature of our scheme—tho' right of entry. And with us enters the Bibje." In a later issue, that of May T, appears a letter from Mr, John CatigMey, one of tlio minority of 13 in t-hcj Presbyterian General Assembly when tho votes on the other side, approving league and its platform, were 132. Writing to Tiiu Dojirjsiox, Mr. Caughlgy ■ rocotmt-s with complacortco his controversial triumphs over the R<*y. Canon Garland, tho Rev. R. Woods, -of Dunediu, awl myself. Perhaps; ho will allow ma to odd that at his Dunediu meeting (my ono and only experience of Mr. Canyhley}, 1 asked leave to second a raotuin of thanks.. Biit it iriss in the belief, that Mr. Oaughley's advent and inteivolition would benefit tho cause he had oomo to destroy. Tho Dunediu CftrtH piittec of th-i leaguo_ took .the same view; hence an omission of which in his lettor Mr, Caugjliley, curiously enough, complains. An intention I had expressed of exposing his ineptitudes froin the platform was not carried out. •It was sufficient to let well alone.—l «nt,. etc., A. R. FITCH ETT. A Slouihc'r of the League Esecutive. Dunediu.