BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2194, 6 July 1914, Page 3

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS

li'iHMSiitD in Aitn»vo»iiLM.]

PLRSONAL ATTACKS DEAL? WITH

Sermon prciclud '>} Hi-> Itevi Caoon vuiMud, 111 M P u ii'*s Ca.hciral, Wellington, un hiiuJh. .luij i. ' Hut -mid if .f «iiffer f->r nshieousne-.. s-ikc, eappyarc ye; md bo nit .ilioid or their Innr neither bo tioubleil, but tonrtn'y the Lord God lb \our lieails"-! M. Pete. 111, U

Wh"ii St J'elei tuote tlin epi~tle Christians iiad uitercu upon an rcean of hatred. lrgili<.ed j T-enition, nad 'uliu! murepre-e'itation, tho la*t wave) ot I nliii.li did iioi iipim' Mieni-elies foi three 'ong centu'ies. The Christ-aiis^iTcro ] hated bj tho P.igaii'.. prohtbttcd \>\ h;«l enactments f'tim the tiorciie o" (.hri«tiei. librrti. and wilfulU imireineseutcd, «\f bj the philowphtrs of tho-e jdj\s ''"heir desire to do good '»»■> niltully "they sjieak against \o"i n» 'uMoci'," wntcn ?t. Peter; tbcj Re-e as un*ruo ic relic on, "as having nu they were occncctl of mying nnd detfrojin* child-life— tboNO \iry people who, carmnr; out thi ol je<iis. sowed tho seed of l a t'lrmii.utj uluch ga\e cr to the ncrld, n.d 'iftod up childhood into 'the hapny n"iid sacrM phec which to-d.n it holds ia Chri«t:an natirns orh , But to acjomplisli thi- thei Miflered for righttou-ness sak?. nnd counted them- | tel*M happ>, being not afraid of the terror ct the cr troubled nj the un«repr'^c.it> , tmii'! of tho Pagans who boasted they would crash Christianity I They who eufic-ctl lor nghteonsno = ««ke have gone their way nrd ontered it.tr *ho joi of their Lord, .md we of to-dnv. from their example anc the ies'on oi their tr.unip'i, Tor .ihich t.o thank liod, can tr.Le heart to "bo not afraid' vvh-ii -»e inn hn\p to buffer (or righteousness *a\.a at the hands of tho e t> who, tn this 20th return■, would denv liix>rh to Chns.ian poi-cnts to ha<o their cni.«lrcn !in thtir <h\ •■ohooii. paid for h\ thosj pa'c.its as part cf tho whole rcoplo I t.Ti-ht tho-e (ruths .ilout God nnd tnat knowledge of !e«us Chri»* which arc | part of the commop law of the Bnti'h Empire Prom tha oiample of tho long liol! of wlnte-robed arrnv of .lwrtyrs anJ their '-.ctort, often by tteith, wo cen I le-irn to "V not afraid, neither be troubled,' who" wp are ranioprescnt'd in pur j efforts and our denes ior the moral and spiritual b->Leiit and welfare of the childien of this coii'i*iy. I At o rule, lam nt.i»o content to suffer in silence thi vituporanofl, calling of I name-;, the • llftil. ner\cry« and p->rsi«t*nt m-sreprjsc.ititior. to which I am sub- ' wrtcJ bv tho^'vho arc ojnoMiig tne openir? of the Bible tn Chns**s httic one«, I ip tho Mate Schools, _nd t!-e restoration of liberty by which Cnnstion ministers of chtirc'i will be a'lowe.l to the schools to tecch those % hosa I pnenti dtsire it. tho Christian faith, but. howcicr much I may bo piling perI «oual'y <o vi'iinit tr sl.ruler and vi'ftil unsrcp'cseritition. thc-e arc times when the Came i hid I represent mrin* that I must put or one oido my own wishes. | i.nl while Imhng witn that which is applied osten«Wj on'y to myself, do-fend | Iho Cairo i'lnch i* attacked in rav poison. Of many fi-ih attacks t..ke one in the Wellington e-ening paper of 2nd inst., where, in an editonil note, two chsrjes are bought against me; one, tl.nt I I have aeis.sted in nn of St Ciia-H Bowen's aititude m 1577 ] oint in'ater "if. "t.hich is rs a "gra\«i offence"; but os "a trivial ir. lit ly cortinu nuh e, lnp'c" in a certain sermon of *hich I ohili speak presently

Now i lint are the farU about mj lefcrencei to Chas. Boi-en 5 Speaking ! i", "l .Vl'n's Sdio.l, 2:ib Pcbruarj li-t, I a-ii repoued in The Dominion, of 25th I I'cl'iuw as 'Tiing— . , . ~ ~, . "Tliimc was no lime for luni to r>'. tiv the whole histoiy of the movement m New XeMaiut lie thought he'coul.l »i'in «, up by "-jying. thet sine loTfi. wl.e-i sir Chi-. IK.wen, n- Mintstci of Eltiuiion. .i.vs <loKat«' on the c.itue wn.cr ho lik) put into his Ed-ira'ioii *ct orotiding Hint there shovl! lx> Bible lcs.-o« ,n •■rhrili. their- had been unrest inor- or lc«s definite, but jiM.-jti existing, ciwajs simin»r'ing ir, legom to -ducUio.irl m..tt"rs n, New Zealand " _ And, pr-irlung in Kent 'l sii ace Prtsbjterian rhtrch iast Sund-y night, I <im Toported a« stying — . . "Tint i.-er -ti'ic* Sir Chi?. Bower hid stated n 18i< that ' of tbc p-xiple desired Bible rer.d.n" in '< bonis for the children there had beer | »on'nival protects from the Chust'ion as a result ft tho 'entirely secuhr' "ero I statoil i>vo iir,torirol facts wl ic'i havo not berr ond which are bevond challenge.— !. Sir Chas. Bowtn t'ul intiotlucc m hi- Eauction Bill n dat:?o providing for Biblo rordinc; , " That Sir Cha". Bos.en stated in 1' n that mnsteer. tn"nt,c*hs of the pcopie dcired Bibb tcoding in schools for the rkldrcn. '.Vhere i- Ihe faintest suggestion that 1 rlaim Sir CharVt Bower as a supports of our pronisM '■ I mcrdv quo'ed two fncU be\ond dilute «s«ociate'd with himfdf nnd cv.jt'W' ~(> opu-ion 'rhatc\cr as to hi. uci.s Ca". there bo a clearer rase of wilfirl int«repr<"=entitnn nlie.t the "Post" states I havo persisted in mi«fpresenlnlion of s m C'mites Bowen's att'tudo in 1877 ana in Wit jenrs, and clnrirterise- thi« ai a f,ra\" offence. Thr "Post' proeee,l, to speak of in-"pra\'- offence* n« trivia, fai'lt by toiitnst »ilh the lapss in a "crmnn" of t Inch sume extracts aie nubbsiied bv the "Po«t', and "-.-n i I cwecstcd tha*- people wh<, vote n-anisl tho l"n~tie'fi mey incur a sentence of e\ilc on the Dav of J idpmenl "• tfnl T in,e'"'lire'ilctifd ,he N'atiomlisls with the t'i=nleaSMre of God. and have warned lh*m tint when thev 'tand befor" lh» Great Ihrono they m.iv hrir the diP.id words, "P-epari from me I neier knew vou The "Post" In<-;>s this upon a l»tter wh.ch it lif f cd fiora a momtrg contempiiar , signwl ' .Innif' M"Ponntll," who write 'That a'coruing to j report in the Tiisbini" Times'6l \pi:l 20. the retercr.il gonllpmin waniwl lm bearer, thai tIIPf.NENTS of the no matter ho- r 'co<l (THEIR) motncs may irf-in *j"uM it the Dav cf J'ldgmrrt, heii from the of the Lord tbs wort,=, 'Deprrt from me; I ne\er knew jou Now what is th.| Fenivon, accordi.ig tn tno report of it w'uch appears n the "fiisborno 'Lines"? It would l>o lncrethbli'. :f we werf not «o iam..iar with tho vait of 'ome ct our opionciiK. lo ihat the folloi-rxr )« the complete report to "fir as that piptr ti.n i' and upon nlnrii the "Post's rttack on mo is based-"l'hisnpp'-ileaiioiih be felt b\ Chn>liaiis : bv eccpt Mio Loru nsUieironlvKiMOnr, as God manifot inlhcfle'h. to Vi rom tbn have committed their w.ioiol'>es. Because WE Him. WE tielicvenc will Maje to be 01 Iv Judge, when every one cf Ufr shall gi\o an amount o tho things \\ E hivo ccn. in this life, for owy thought, and t.ord, and dc-d. sha'l l pit then when I set TTim fare to face 5 ShaP T pleid '1 ord, I would not trt's. the 'cache's cf New 7calvi«l' 'I/ird. I thought tho State should l'evc noti.ng 'o do w>th the felipion of tho children in Hi« school". Higutli it migH \ ith the crimiraj, in the prison ' I thought this or that, and therefore.! reou ed thov- that would lme b-ought (he chiMren to Tl-co in their rthool.' «nat will Ho His anvnr thm» \\r, kno.v for no has shown Hi* mrW, and it .s- tl- sane yes'trday. ant. for ever It nil! bo tho muk it th- Diy of In krront. rl.c'AM. before Him tr cite an amount The <w> as it w.-.s ir. Palestine nineteen hnndretl yrars age. He will be much -l.spleised wit.i US, nr n ,..ttcr no* roc,! OTIR motifs may h.is« V-n if lh" result r. that WE in an\ fashion rl»« » sl-.mbun' oh*k in ' ie_ way of'the little oi.m eoming lo llim 'Inannueh as ye did it not unto one oi the eist rf these vr did it i.st nnln Me P-part from Mo, I win knew yo.i. Ut 1"! .Vil with theanevion of 8110 In State «rho ? U as WE be.iovoind know the Mister taught US.as WL wonW wi-h lwn dealt, with it i b«n \\F, *te,-A Wore th' Great White Throne of Hin. who «id for ca tnte» and condi'.otis'MiiTer the little children to come unti Me' f and Who w« much displeiseJ with tho*" who wouid have kept Mum from Bun." . It will bo noticed that I re\er referred to opponenh drectlv cr indirectly, tint e\on i\ a Mia.nod me.-ning there is no sii!sc«icn that I wa~, reformg to them. I never reftrretl to "Vationilists" or -w.-rnH 'bom of inyt.nng whitici " wis rolc-riiu to aid ihoo'o who, vith m}«elf wouid lie inclmM m the pronouns of tho first re-on which I uct-l 'He will l« unci i Hpl-.w'd aiMi US no matter \\o\ cool DVB motto* rftav h-.o be»n, if tie rc-nit is that WE in nnv fashion place . stumbling block m the war of the little onei coti.ij •d Him 'Inast.i.ich as 50 dil it not nnto one of the least ot tiese. ye did it not unto Me Lepirt fio.i, Mi>; I no-or kne v ? l u- , . ~.,.,,, The lettei vhicl. the takes for lb ha- Lot only faisif'en wl.at I «aitl by ml reducing tho word "opponent-' <n antecedc-t to my words but has cetuallj insertod in t'.ic middle ot mj words 1 word ivluc 1 ! n«i"r prs;ed my lips, and struck out tho won! I reallv did say. , , , ~ _, This wes not the first tunc there of the »rmon. The "Tablet"" gave the lead to the -ctior of the correspondent of the Now Zealand Times" by finding ItHf compnled to place- Lefo'e ita misfiuotaticn of my worus, word- which I n««>r usttl The 'Tost'" tho mcuthpicct oi tl.o Seculann P.ir.y, J therefor odmit is not alone, but kecpstho company o: the official OTgen of the Roman C-lholic CTiu-ch in tnisrepre anting and saem'ng what I actually did "Moreover I vr.i" not then refernn? tc inpomnt-i 0" to tLc pubirc gsnerallv. T wis "ddrc s'ug, as a pr>=t, members of the Ciiuieh of England. I was apeaKing to thjm as I conceded .t to be mv duty to jpwu to members who, for tho nion ent. aero mv flock, t c -J lo it,N! thorn, rs I exhoitn.l on ,1 former occasirn. 'ho congregation ,n thu cathedral, to cp,ircaoh this subject not from the point of new of wait I «.iid, c- in'oeo d=a did, not heeding one word thi. I cr others might write for or .-gainst the proposal, but entireh a' in the sight of Gotland as in tho presenco of nim-i'.e God-Man-Whou We. with al! our hearts, telwc w.ll come tc be our Ju lge. I potnt<\. out, .-s you will remember, and /"the estract I ha-o Toad rci.iinds von, thit tho mind of the Lord Je-sus- as our Judge has been clearly shown, Ho was inner displeased uitl. these who. from whatever motues, sought to keen thr children from" Him. Surely as a Chr:«'ian pr:e e t I havo the ilg.it to apnea! to the esnmplo ind ♦eaching of our Bkssed Ix>id H:mse f as a gutdn to mvvlf and the- fork comnuttedto my charge. But noThaps I am m.stiken we not onlv hivo to fight for liberty to fl.ow t*ifl BlistJ I/ord ,Icsn«, tho Saviour of man, the Tnend of U-tlo children, to enter the s<tools thou."!, rnnfucii", and heuhen gods iray 'reely en'er, but it hould «oom ns if -10 hao to r ight for tii-v right tc proclaim wi'hin oiif Lhurchos, tho faitl, as it is in Jesus, as a standard for ourselves. It u trio mat there-is no Art of ".wli.-n.ent which «nTs Min teaching In tho Churches shall bo entirely se=ulnr." but tii» instance shows that nnv Chrn-tim Mmistc; who nroc aims tbo truth as his »onseien;-> be'ie.es It, mar tune to •'efed bims"lf as I now bavo to cb from atticks bi opponents of Cbnstii.ntty teaching .n the schools, when ho holds ip ibc weds an<j dcnls ot Je*us as * pattern. T"o'u!»h fie <b\* hr.vo gore b/ when tiio«e rbo sought for iiborty for Chr'shmity were Virnw as li,nn« torches to light tbe pagan festival, yd, 60 far as modern eonditioi'9 allow, we nit> held up V Secu'»rists and Romans as a spectacle for men tc jeei at. Though phvsit.il life -annot rv> ai'itM bv thoso opnoren's, yet tint wind. Is dearer than life—honour nrd .-hirioter—is"ruthlcs=-ly stabbed by those \ ho are t'opntcd of tho pow->' of pbvsi.-al tortt,'c, simply by tho growth of that Chr,3tnmtv winch fney are --eekirg to binder cntonrg on- s'bools. In spra'.ing to tho "Pe-st" reporter T told him T had a copy of th* sermon l»fore me, I got him tc rrad the letter from tho "New Zealand Tirres" then I real him tun corresponding passage from my se-moii. showing that the word" "onpon.nils-' had been attributed to me bv the writer of the lettor and had had to bo invented \n him to irakc mv words anplv to them. Morovor. that the wifef of the l'lti'r had to insert ths pronoun their nnd ent ont my nronnun "ot-r" in or'er to rive th.>- senter.ee the meaning winch he desired, arid wlu'cli ig the <xnct rovers" both of mj wo'ds and their plain gramma'.toal nieanirg .... ~,,,.„ , The reporter osW. r« ,f the copy Trro correct, to which I replied ics, and further askea mo if I Ind ised the wor.ln nUnoutwl tc me, to vhicli I enphahenllv replied "No" Yet tho ' Po'"t" pt'Mislp- that con\ersatic.i as if I hr.d merely 'compl.ll ie<l" of the ecrrespomKnt; T did ..ot "onrlain, ' I went tnudi further, 1 eiiinhatieall • denial that T hid fs-id tint which was ottnbutod to roe Yet tho "Pest's" idei of fairoiny ,i to wippress my r"'ntal, ond on P-turdav niglu to invite inn to a -.ijidiciticr. of mt=Mf in its eclnmr.s, which it had n'reiidv obtained and reiVed to inse*t, though it continued its nttecks nnon no, in fnevof m\ dcnul which it had re.-ei'.ed, and which it wthout mentionin' it. Jl tray bo a M".all matter,, but wh.n the "Post" lays I «.int it n conv of the •erinon. I s%y 1-learh, 1 did not Th« "Pn-f v>kn\ mo for a copv .-ifte- I told the reiwrter I had ono„ and I willinglv rc-ponded to his reqaost that I would give it to him if he cent lor it, which le lid The .dio'e incident i* .'. snMimen of that journalism which makes mo thankful t!.ar tho "Post" is on the sido 01 ' Socnlnrispi" and not of Tlolißions In:tTi'ct : en in Ptato School' _ The non. W*. Eainsb.iT. a Labour nolitieinn, -speaking at the opposition I I/>.i"ties tneetine in the Open Hnnsc. List Sunda;' night, is reported lo hao saul, when referring to tho Keliffiotis lirrrvctlonlteferem'um; I "Th'« Bill was fu'l of the pre?lest DEVILRY th„t could b" conceived V j ner-otis weinlii; MlO cicricu cloth. Ynu knen thev eome somet.mes \ery near the !li\il" (I-mgliter Iron Ins hearers) I Now, 1,1 ihe woul or th!= j/ibonr man, 11 is "dovi'lry to propo-o It oilo'T i uir Po\eienn Poopl" Hll right imHj tr, siv wnnt then desire mnv be en .1 I filiation or subject with winch Mr E-nrslaw does not happen to igr\-e \cccrdlii" to tins ibnuimt Ihc demivrilii printiple o f neiclv looki.i" lo Parlinuuiit ' 11s" •>( the people to p evule nr.clnn< ft 'to enable '.'.irlnniet t lo I (isrnt.v.li thin will, is"iie\iltiv" 1 'Hie n'siills lir ai nulii«tt'is 01 rt li(,i 111 when !io .pnkr of "t.n g:eate t dc.illn tint could b> comenej \>v unisons wealing ciorieal cloth. You k.io', I tlnv ir.ne .(iiieliiiits ten ne.ll the dull ' eiiiniiite most httinglv from one who, I <ik< Mi 1 tnisliin, hi>- in iipnoi'.umlv-iiot by election of the peopl«-ot rxei-ii-'iu- mhn pri-onal Mile 111 ih> l.egi In< tc nuil in mlitidual .iiiteu.i*|T, ih,.', il., isiiole lMbuiii' i'i Ihe perpl« will be denied he tppoitiin.tt ef I asking lor jii-lni, wlen lli'» >li'l. 1 I'ltne is ncjptlrjted upon them. 1 ou!d Dip must "deviltr\" over nllrci-d of "pfrsons wearing the derioal cloth" iie ' •(|iii|l(d In In" Ina'iiv ol Mi '.itn-hai's pn-nnil vote hindering the people I n.'ieiinng n «imiler loi tl.pin-, l\. s.» 1 Thu cbctgn or Mulltry" coiit-citsii If p->i>o)H 'w-mHlij the clerical ciotb," i reran most appropriately ijob. ono Thp, :n bia upholdtax of tKcularism in t>a

rchooK h a follorcr of fhat (Treat Vn inj'atKi-fic'of secularism", Joseph M'Cabs, who, in Weihiifrton, 2n(l Jul,,. 1910, uwer tho cl-airn-anahip of Sir RoLort flout, one lime of the Rationalist Association, enunciated the doctrine of SpciilarNm as eppl'ed to State schools, v lth such convincing force to his hcaur 9 tnat fortH-Aith was. established the. Secvlar Edi,cati„n Defence league, with Pro?. AJccfconzie as its treasurer -, .. C ' "<•--" ' Tho Hon. Mr. Ban - , speaking in tl e Council lait Monday,, is reported to hnvo Mid. "Tho«e BiMo-in-acl.oo's people, Kadod bj l'AV'iTlLv-soma of then LURED from uiircad—lur.o thronn down tho gaunt l "*." Tno "'fanatics' include v«*y awnv of tLc Christiin leaders-in th's cemtry; and many of *Kc vomon best kncisn and honoured in Nt» Zealand,, mothers travailing again ic>r ihi-ir ' -i-ildren, who arc 'eaJingr tin- inovein nt,' <.re ""finalics," according .to Mr. Bit. Mr. Br.rr i« an honest mar. I believe he epeak* f IO M tho honest com ctions of hi« heart, ho is also, like s-me other on'J'i"nts o. Labour man. Well, M him. as an honest pun, come from under tho i r-'ocjtion of Parliament, which jprivilege? him to say there what could rot be sai.i elsewhere, said lot htm,' a-> i 1,ib0..r politician, come out the d<w 'ireser.e 01 o nominated scar n Parliament, to which ho has not been eleited by tl.o people, and stanu fcr..i: election, taking as hi:> political cry. '"1 ,'iCc ilibk-in-richools peopb are head d by fane tics." • . : As to those who ere "lured front a T road," I know of "onlv one ccmc from abroad—myself. Well, is it to po out 10 tho world that a British suljeci of full white <Atnction is not weicomi il >*»v Zealand if he- happens to 1» "one < f "thoso Bibfb-n-PchooU people." L>t Mr, 8..T coiio from behind the safety of the Council and sty that as a cand'dato foe the suffrages oi tho whole elcDtoix ind "n whether they -vou'd proclaim to the British Empire, ufrich es an almost entire whole, ha- rttnredth? I! inein its Er:rlwb->p:;> , ;ins schools, that ties* ara r.ot wanted 'n New 'M land who ore' annous to bnrg New Z'.iland out of liee with tho Atheist 'chcls of ,nd once again i ito 11115 with tho British litfperial practice an,! Inston of Bible-in-SchooK I lgnow w'ni tho answer wotnd lie from tho hearts ot tno Christian, British, and' Nation \\ people of this Dominion. "But—and if je suffer for ri; r ittonsness sake happy are jci'and bo net afraid c* their terror, neither be tioubW; but sanrtify the Lord &>d in your hearts"