Bible in Schools.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 April 1913, Page 2

Bible in Schools.

/ ?• 1 /~1 "£\ Peplylto Mr iJora'WsW'. Milner. " ""*" TO THE EDITOR!' Sir, —Before withdrawing from a controversy which your inten--tion: -of \T^gidly^^^'rn^ctn^~theEditorial veto suddenly cuts short, may I, as a last favour, ask my• -opponent,■ - Mr-^-Milner, -.a . puestion. ~.., i The last paragraph-of his last letter reads thus:—-" jCnce more I ; close with the words jof the good Queen Victoria.,; The "Bible-is ; the secret of L England's greatness.' Assuming thai; he endorses Queen Victofiats alleged opinion, (for that she >;jex;prejssed it has L been again and again nfenied)! — but assuming fhatj she "jmade the statement, ahd; thao Mr Milrier believes it to beitrue,rr-niay I asK him would he be prepared to debate en a public platform in HeL, ,ensville as/a n^tuiraflccrollary jt^y "his belief in thi& respect, ithat the" '-Secret " of Gpd's;p\vn Country's prpsperity, "-.greatness,";-,at the^ present time, can be mere; directly, -attributed te the Bible than jtp } the,/: inventions of cold storage and the cream separating -machine ? ; 'yy-y | •. y Thanking you ,'in anticipation, I'am', etc. y -:''-y y'v ''<'■?/$ ■ .'^«>. ■ CLAUD HOPPER] • ( Mok^i,.l44 : l3..^:;V^Vy-;y;' :