BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 16 June 1914, Page 2

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS

THE TBM*IJ&'S PCiIKT Of VIEW. In 4 paper read at. a. mc-eting of tiro Women's fjenjjHo .for held in St. John's Sdwol'rooia yosiordriy isfteniosHj Mr, D. 3f, feats, late lienintastef Htttt .District Ittgli School,' sajtl.''!- , • "I wish _to mate a little cm;:pJijJ)fttion in tlio hrstfe pta.ee because a long time 1 ffas ati.tagoiiistic. to tho introduction, of the Bihi.o ißto our 'State Solkkvls- Tlw two things thai; hn;vo caiised in.e to e'tm.ngo aiy'view'S *re ti'ic organised sj-stsai advot'stsx! by tho Bi/jlo-in-Seliocjls Loagtie and tJte wlielniuig tastiintiffly to its sirecess in tihosen States of tho Commonwealth into ivMeh it has lieea As to (jver-ofoftded: syllabus, tlie oia syllabus was. a. rigid one requiring a;u o.xac*f. nam., kvr <5f «jftj*ftt& to bo. tttiijiht.,' and ait ; oxact quantity }n eneli. . hnfi no choioo of fiuafr mn.,. tiut had to follow a fixed. Jxiuti'no of work aiii the inspector had to see that the whofc ground whs eovflmd each yfef. It is not |'fl now., iiiore. .espepiiiliy owing to tlm jajit iie\v in uso for the first Mmo thm.year, its framer, Sir. JJog* hen., at the last wasting of thn N,g.'|!.'i., iii' Auciklaftd, <Mi, January, said it ivas merely a stiggostion of Aat wotic flfwiila he tlonc.; not a lihrd' and fast set of regdhtioiis in.«ttijti siibjeet, and/for tho last fey years mt i'ftspQetors liaA-c 'been in tlm habit of sftyiiig: 'it -is tto quality of tlw vfoA-tiiat wo aro goiiig to look at, 'not tho (piaiiiity db.no/ fc'ory heii'lirtastor' iiiakes out his own general scl'mnnj of writ, and if insp.eetos are with it.,- tltet esaifthie . s'vrthin its limits and' t-na.v«"«o hesitatimt in : sayi)i|,'.froiii an e.spcrfeitcfl Of thn-ty-fi.vo years' as a. heaebmster in iiii'i' schools, that the intiroduetioii of . Biblo-reatliMg as part of tho literary trainfng of our eli.ild.reii and tlio visits Of a.c«:odifced toaohteia \\-\]\ not int4rim iiiiViviiJUfely Svitli fte schaol svlttbhs of liroA. Ai to eaitseic»e& glsusb fiir teacters; gjmj D thoy aro nrt to teat'.h iriigtei, why ask for swrii a claiiSo 'a* aH? I ani Quito sure that if a SrS]j> turd reading leSson liad 'ta bo taken 'it wijiijd ho taken with all due revei'eii'co ■and respeol hy ftlniost all those engaged in tite eilireati'fiiial .fservjeo Of out- Dq, liiiiribn. Surely- thjj fact slionltl be oen~ vffipfcg to iil—t-hat in tlio States iii. Jwhicji the syrterti lias- hee'n enrr-i.e-d oii ft % Commonivoal-th of Anskaik oiat «Kj tea-cliff hiis f&fftged for co-iiscience sate to tafee tlio fetriiired share in tlio vwkj nor fes any ;s'eiiTOi)fli for smfij ft e-lattso • lisen B-ver thdliffiltt at. What s-tro.ngfli: refutation of titeneedivf siieh .. a cwuse 611.1.150 branght' fefward than ' tlwsS As. to tlio feaf .that appoint irieMs, »§ fii.r as eopifflittres a:-re -coiioM'iwd, would Ijo' n'jfectcd hy a t*aclle.t s TeligiQii, this s.eoin.s to'n»e to he vtfy fw-fotcka. In fact, I tathtr Wißi-k. it vmw Sttil slrattM havo tie onposdo oifcet, ior if cyery chweh tosk Jts oivu Sliil-re;, ij-i tlio ScrilltuVe ttvpro mm he- m adraiviago'in appointing teacher's bokroging to mn parttaj-, las' creed., I do not think' that a teacher's fe%ioii ivrttttd come itto -eo-n----sidwatiMi with a sehtio'i committee ivnv ■i-Soro Mia-n St does iiow,'' 1

Hm. MEHOftlf r PIiESiDBNT'S AWiCB. f % fev n t prcsidoiit or tno MeLhodist Con.fcreneo, ha& issued at tfio reqitest of a pfl.s> ferat Iftttbf -'to the- people calhJtt"J&tlio*ste. l„ the course of Jits jettor, Sr C *,*¥ %* Metliadist fifties," he writes _ "By jfe vote- tho eonfercnGi: reaffirmed its stoor| of the BihMnJSehoofe rsoficy. mmo k tho. heritage of British clnl-J A tight ft is horn •'*£ lWt.opn'terred as ft. haoii by'am- SW pntnOiA bi.it (i, rigM seeHrod ) )v the tel, blood., and doit-th. ef our YV* W&m d ft aim against iihs' Mo ot the ohildren of oijr coiiHtrv hv withholding from them tlio tit ..wocl/ I coniinciid ta your pva-voftil {waetoi sydtpathy, and siiptioA tnP™iicy of tide Lea4e. • • ■ ..Keiuso fo vote, for a ntaii Vlw rovuss tO T t«tefc tlw parents to sav what th«w <rh.iMt-on shafl %• shall not rc?d in' our pttlihc schools.' 4