BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 85, 5 January 1920, Page 7

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

A NEW PLAN TEACHERS'"INSTITUTE STANDS UNCOMMITTED At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute, tho representatives of the Masterton branch invited tho institute to 'endorse the ■ aims and objects of the Child Welfare I League" In order to imorm delegates of what these aims and objects were, the B«v. A. T. Thompson, M.A (secretary of tho league) attended Saturday evening's session of the institute. Mr Thompson said that in the pamirxhlet which had. Riven rise- o the leaguo in tho Wairarapa, he hr.d deaU with the moral and religious ins ruction of children in the homo, ,n the Church and in the school. It wo.il, «, ha said that in New Zealand DO.IKX) e.tW children were without religious instruction The complete secularisation 01 Tolitrious instruction of the child to he SI the Church and he home alone. The league aimed nt taking »P Hie, "left-over problem with a will, ii £ed to supplement the nationa system through the provision o .lenh si tably trained for religious and moral work among the children in tho i,,!V The league could help tho .roncled that it, trained agents should Jiv e inlruetien during school hours, or b6 r Thompson replied that it .ould ES«u^w»£ the latter to conduct his work with the with the added fa tor of the specially-trained agent In 'the "constitution and rules of ttoleSue the objects are set forth in % n fSs t T S the league rfudl be social religious educational work s iTterX rin h me and elsewhere, helpulto par nt, and "the" in the mora SsboS^ial^ns^ i- m -Rv such other action as shall Sher ( «funeral welfare of the o. 1dren of Zeali,ml ' mi °" causes undermining the same SSa.'WJsis'JSs

" The motion to endorse the aims of the league was defeated on tho voices. Several delegates expressed hearty Gymnathj with the league, but the oninionn. widely held appeared to be that the u sttue as a body should not commit ite f One delegate said he was afraid ha if the institute established a predent by. endorsing to.™j'* organisation, it would bo hah e to be approached by many more bodies i-it retiuests for support. He was a keen prohibitionist, he'said, but he would bo wholly opposed to any measures that would commit tho Educational Institute to the prohibition platform.