BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3614, 17 March 1927, Page 3

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

ZANE GREY’S ADVOCACY. Ah'. Zane Grey, the well-known author and sportsman, who is at present deep-sea fishing in the northern waters of New Zealand, has given his opinion on the Biblcreading in State schools question at the request of the Citizens’ Bible-in-Schools Propaganda Committee. Writing from Russell Bay of Islands, under date February 28, he states: — “I believe in Bible reading in the schools. In the United States this is practised, but only such portions read as will not offend the various Christian denominations and people of other religious faiths; and to me that is the wisest course to pursue, since there is no such thing as a universal religion. The Bible is the greatest book ever written. I have received much inspiration from it, and those master's of literature that I have studied most assiduously wore ardent students of the Bible and God-fearing men. “I might add that the Judges of our Courts throughout America aro almost unanimous in the opinion that lack of religious training in the homes is lai’gely responsible lor juvenile delinquency.”