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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1444, 3 May 1905, Page 2

a >y id is 'g is rt it )t 3. u 11 B a The good pastors and other wall-mean-ing people in the Bible-in-sohools movnment might just as well admit at onch that their desire is to “Christianise ” the children, and that to be of any value at all, the Bible lessons mast be taught as religion. And, having go 6so far, ho w can they stop short of training their teachers to teach Christianity ? Christchurch Times. No one, except the very extreme, wishes to see horseracing abolished. What thinking men advocate is that'the betting crao€*, which has laid hold of the people shall be'" crushed out.—Carterton Leader. Although a labor union mayoppose tha optional freehold, we may. safely assume that were any of its members put on land, and mado a sucaess of their venture, they - would change their opinions, and “barrack” as loudly for the freehold as ' they did for the leasehold before they got there. Circumstances altar oases.— Oamaru Times. The New .Zealand education system, judged by results, compares more than favorably with those States—such, for ex ample, as New South Wales—where Bibleroading forms part of the school work The statistics of youthful depravity in tha State aro greater than those of any otha State or colony. . . . We have ti making of a free, healthy, and moral 1 sonnd nation if we are only wise enoup to learn the lessons of the pasMmd.to ke: clear of that rock of e which are piled the shattered reh many a promising oause.y^Dimed®^ So far as the Commission ha- ' it would appear that the rest/ eventually be gained, -would just as effectively end.-veiy 1 ;/j. economically arrived at^bjJ?'freehold v. leasel " Star. Strawberry oult ried out on a large distriot, New South; suing season iiif sags* Is® - S i