The Bible in tat Schools

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 129, 10 April 1886, Page 4

The Bible in tat Schools

Lecture by the Bishop of Melbourne

(Couiinued)

And how much real knowledge ara the children likely to carry away from a lecture delivered to hundreds at a time ? Voluntary teaching is a failure in the large towns ; in the country districts it can hardly be said to exist. (.Hear, hear.) \ Jfor can we depend on Sunday-school tearliinu lo cover the ground. Deduct from the returns of attendance at Sundayschools all who are not ot State school age, all who are under and above it, and it is clear that there must be at least 100,000 children who do not attend Sunday-school. The non-attendance at Sunday school shows the character of ijieir parents. And if they get no re ligious instruction either at home or at the State school, what is to prevent their becoming practical pagaas ? (Hear, hear.) What, then, is the true remedy for all lhe evils which I have pointed out? I would say, in short, the adoption of the recommondations in which both sections of the Education Commission agreed. Interpret the word secular in the Act to mean undenominational. (Applause.) L^t non-jdenominatienal religious instruction be given in the State schools by the teacher as part of the regular course, and add a conscience clause for teachers and scholars. (Hear, hear.) I have said nothing about lhe Eoman Catholic difficulty. The Bible in State Schools League does not meddle with it. But I desire to express my private conviction that this question will never be settled till that difficulty be successfully dealt with. (Applause.) I believe that the adoption of some modification of the Canadian . system will be most likely to satisfy both parties, and I earnestly hope that our legislators may Bee their way to phss such a measure. (Hear, hear.) Alone among civilised communities, some of the English colonies share with France the honour or the disgrace, as men may choose to deem it, of divorcing religion from education. Are we desirous here in J^eibourae, of sinking to the moral con* dition ot Paris— a condition which. Ac» cording to the statistics published by Karl Hillebraud, is not misrepresented by the awfnl, loathsome disclosures of Zola's " L'Assotrimoir ?" Do we wish it to he said of us, as was said by Heine, of Paris, "There areino atheists here. They have Hot preserved enough resrect for le bon Dieu to be at thr pains of denying Him." If not— if we desire to preserve the piety, the truthfulness, the purity, the courage, the virility natural to men of Teutonic blood— we must speedily re» trace our steps, and by making religious instruction an integral part of our education, system, remove from it and from the coifcny the peril arid opprobrium of encoUTagdjfcirreliuious selfishness. (Loud nnd pwHßjed applause.)— Concluded.

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