BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2166, 3 June 1914, Page 4

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

INTERVIEW WITH PREMIER ■OF QIIEBMSUND HIS GOMMgNDATION. (lly C<jpj'efi B nflde»t.) Aacklanfl, ,sime 2. Warm coMivneiHlfiticiH of the Qiiobjislam! system of Wible-rendiug ia gi. a t« jicljoais wfts exjirosse*] hy tho Hon. Di"l),v Benhara, I'l-emior of %onnshnd. who was iHtc'ivjcM-ott in Auektowl on liis arrival from America by tfcs Niagara, 1 "PersunaHy, 1 voted against'the. iu-U-mluction of Bible-wading in State scJiools." doelared Mr. Donimni. "I am a free churchman, and, infccrcitl-ly, luve an objection to what is railed Stale aid. •U wemed to me that this vhs an sljoipient form of State aid, and en ihis account I eisjwsfid it. Wlwin the reftfrendtiin had' bwn taken I was a lmtfuj few of the A'imiiilstratiosi that passed I the Bill giving effect to.tlto tteisinn of the iwople. Now-, as a rcsiiH -af all that I .lijivc seen, and »f itititurics that I_havo hiade, I am prepared to sa.V that, if the opjiortunJt.v eamo to in'e'aqain, I _ should vote for th-o infcredactioH ,«f Bibie-roadii.ij,!; instead of opposing it as 1 did on a farmer occasion." Discnssmg'a- syggestiaii tlia-t th« oittraiWi" of ministers into sehiiols would be pmditctiye ef ffiction, Mr. Dc-irhara said that, in Queensland, ministers so nrrangctl in tlioir districts tliat wvfcrlepjjjtig and confsskm wor& avoided. Tht> visits by etergynwii were by tho teachers, E«d the system was iu every respect working smoothly.

DUNEDLV PEESBYTERY., iPi TtlcßP+pU.—BjieeiaL Correstuntdtuu Punsiiin., June 2. Tho Dmifidiu Pfesbytery this nfterlwon luiaaitnously catriad the following -resolution, wiiieh was moved by Professor Dickie, of ICaiox College: "This meeting pledges itself to sujjijovt the platform of the Bible-in*Sutte, SehoeJs League, agrcod ujieu by sueeesftivo tieiwral Assemblies ot tiie Charch, aiid rßjttcsU ttiat a refe-rCH-dxftn of the whoto pespic of the Dominion l>o taken M\xm thu qticsl-ion. This inept-ing also espressasv the <-ourk:tio» that, iiias-mtwli as the j'ei'emulum ]ias boon HspeatetHy renucstod bj' the re* spective govej-uing courts eJ fotir denoiniiivtions, reprbsoHtjng- 73 jwr cent, of t-iic papuktioii, which feqiwst ■ has ten i'dtevateil b.y the <mttStit»encksß of these denroniiiations. anil further endorsed by a request iii writing by up-wawk of 140,000 mdividtiel electors, tlkt Government is more than amply justified in facilitating the wishes of such a'largo proportion of the poodle, M-ereevor, as tho request is iwt asldiiK the Goyorirfltonfc to decide on fto inerits of tho ,Leaga-e's prorposals, but ts aHansthe psfljile of the Uorninion to eeilio to a decision thetusclves on tho maUori this wowJd regret wiy action' on tho part of the GoyoiiitoeHt which, by leaving the -question stand ing over, ■ yo«Id thcj-eby constitute it a tlisturbbß factor at tlio nest gofterai eleotism."

AtfCKkAttD RESOI/OTION. (By 'I'ebiWa.pft.—Specicl C&frisDonfleflt.* „. . Auckland, Siisy m. . flio annual ineolirsg of the AuddiUid Uiocesau Unmix of tha Clitireii of Eiig, IsurU Men's Seoiety, ireprcseHtutg tMtty* 'three-branches, cafrotl the foitavj-m; resolution, by a forise nwjoritjr!-*-"Timt this ceuferoftce of (tefog-ates of the Uinrcli oJ KBgland Sire's Society ■fo--PJWutlßfi the AuekltUld diftcßac, i»»r« all ttembws (A tire eimreSi of Kiirfwiil to s Society in this dioeosf! to con* iarta the. advisability, of liialdiw the w.feremhmt on the SwUrools league's pi-aposals tj.i.oif tlflniiii-1 aoi»K «encem at the coming general cfccttou of -members rf FarHaitmmt, in i tlie event of the rcferwicltnu ft ji tin; subject mrt being granted during tiro comma steien." ■ I ' flio-foitorag roseltitton was KirrM iinrunfiwuisly <w the , iwisiovi of Mr' IS 0 , ihoniita. Soemidcd by Mrs. DumwijAnW Ut a noting of tho AiickW (Srtted ■ Cpmimttoo of the Bilvlo-iti-Stitte-Sdwls hekl on May fifl, in a e >itt :T Ti a -i C? 1,1 , *11 CiibjUMtteo W the Aw&lamJ Ptoviuce o{ the liitewis-Stnio feehfi-fils LuHfiue esi)iuw«* wprfso tlmt as yet the Govei'Hnwivt has lw t iuroded to the_ request i.ufide by tJw lifehwt fleurts in Now Ztolmwl of tl» CliurcLi of JsngtowV two -Prosbytoiao Chttwli, tiw Methodist Churrfi, aad the Sah'atiou Aniiy, aiut oiuJorsccl se »!>!io.ft : )l'y by their ednstittwittg. antil, ftioroovei , sapportod hy the ijutivktait rcqm>sls df WO.OOfI ©wdtors, asbiiiK fov nothing mare than a lvrfcraidum on tJjo, Wrw's poposuls. This foWJiiittSe draws ftttettwii to ttic statements whidi liavo ; bron niado by oppmiwits of tlio kagti© dftimm ihtit the Prirno AJwistof. uml his tn foniet aio in syrepathy with tlroui, and wishes stmiiKly to amjAftMso ife fact tlmt tlte Icogw? is net askiH" nithor the Govefrmiffnt or iPaj-Majfl.cnt te sfceiVfe I Mlioi! tlie morits of tli<> kagno's pronosats, but simply asks that the Govi.tom.«it will proride tlra inacliiMT.v svhieii w:U allow thr- pcejijo to dechlo that mit-sttou for. themselves at tho balkrU bos. , "*