Religious Education in Schools.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 168, 21 June 1883, Page 3

Religious Education in Schools.

"". • - ■ „v ! ?,' !By telegraph^we leatn'thiatfeheTAnsU-, dan clerg^f of All Saints'' parish, Uhrist- ! baye arranged to gJve -religious instruction m. free Ptaxe-schools every morja-^, iiig, beginfning m /JulyJ >Gonsi&erabfe dific^ssidn'::has! been* provoked i by! the separate action; of the Anglican (body | in, eonnectioniswith the; recent- movement for imparting religious educatiou; HeV. ! Dr. btuart, Presbyterian, the President of (the Ministers- Conference, writesjas follows m the- Dnnedin Morning Hexftld::-rr. a For. years. llha*e cherißned the idea that our Protestant Churches held so much of the faith in* common that theyjcqtild., with a good nonscience, co-opVate m so divine a work as giving J gbppelt^saon^ to; children fof the commnnity.^jvl^is with^pauvl have found ,|ha_t : .' the , ministers. ,of jt^e . Angließh communion iiave so little confidence; m the ChristtW ministers Who preach tjhe~ gospel by their "side with asn^uch iii'tellig'enceJaQd 2 zeal as themselves, that they decline to join m a wotk which is ,mnch needed anß which canuot be effi~' j cienriy''done "By"* the Chn'rcties/wotking uffdef^' j their several baniiefs; While regretting this, T hesitate to beliere that d the'' ! Angli<J'»n laity approye, of applicy i of i&olatibn in ] times when irreligion and infiaeiity confront us m town and country." These 'sensib'e ; remntks will cbmihedd themselves to the intelligence of the community. , ..