BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1552, 7 September 1905, Page 2

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

A LIVELY MEETING.

A CLERGYMAN’S CRITICISM.

The Bible in eehools organiser, Mr R. A, ■ Wright, had a lively meeting; at, Lovell's Si x!lat,Dunediri, the other evening, and local residents stayed up.till midnight la enjoy the sparring between the organiser < £. n ,f **** ®? v *' £•' B. Fraser, who leads tbtt ’] agitation in the Sonth against the now famous text book which the Bible ini nohools party desire to foroe upon the ris**’ 1 mg generation. ' ■ Mr Fraser said that ■ the only plaoe for the text book was the fire. He would' (sooner see the Boman, Catholic Bible,"* nates and all, go into the schools. 'HeI also wanted to know what the compilers ° ,* h ° dono Jonah, and| BS Mr Wright that question : “ Y ° u ara a Christian ; an d you ought to know," , isS Mr Fraser Well, the usuaj imprea." eion about. Jonah was that he was ; hnnb oW f° a li by l whale ' bnt this preoious 1 drnL aCt l a - y ‘^° Wa him overboard- and*' drowns him. (Laughter.) Here is the ?““° f ° ne 'eason So they took up - Jonah and oast him forth into the sea,‘and ; the eea caused from her raging,' That < finished Jonah, didn’t it—(laughter)— but *; , he comes alive again," ~ '

A Voice : “ He must have been a good s wimmer.” (Laughter.) go ° | ( Mr Fraser, quoting: '■ Here he is again: And the word of the Lord oame unto Jonah the second time,’ saying not one word about beiDg swallowed by a grea fish, yet this is tho book which this Wel,la.g,6o° conference wants you to swallow.” Mr Wright here appealed to Mr Fraser not to make slanderous statements about book entleman Wh ° had a PP roved o f tho Mr Fraser: “I say that it has hem» stated that the Bible narratives hhve no“ been tampered with, and yet this book oaa drown Jonah, and stiU you say it is the, Bible. ihe* days of Noah ‘ have been etruok out of the New Testament. Why? of nKv* ? om P. aw . want the authority, of Obnst to be given to the . Old Testi&' that hymn, ‘Bare to bo a Daniel. Well, you’ll have to go to gaol to get a Bible to find out about Daniel, (Laughter.) He’s not in this book, = and • do “ atl “ browned. ’ (Laughter.) Mr Wright, in hie reply, referred to Mr* Fraser a attitude on the prohibition qnes*tion as inconsistent with his attitude nowon this question. He went on to say that the bare majority must rule. / "Has the > majority no conscience. he asked. • «£ ssnass* ussss ss stetodP ol ,M B “"^ : Bibf e r in Fr T r ; l 1 “ m in fcvor of tha nlthnif ho ° 8 you B>ve the Romau ° TiT 8 . a L Bran6 f° c the « schools." : V Mr Wright then went on to'Bay that tho .’ thVfl 1 “ ea Wh ° drßw n P the text book for a th»niA U i 0 as oapabla’of forming B i!Slf ß ' o t pi f lODaa Mr Fraser. In-. , d of being false and traitorous, as Mr f 4 sMe cefl ' the y ;bad B ive “ every con- ; to every point, and their opinion was of just bb much value as Mr Fraser’s.