CHILDREN AND RELIGION
To the Editor, ,f N.Z, Times." Sir,—Regarding the controversy now proceeding between the advocates ol iii.bic-reaxiing in schools and who wish to avert such a calamity, perhaps the following paragraph may be of interest. Havelock Eilis says: X'or the most part the ideas of religion cannot be accepted or assimilated by children; they were not made by the children or for children, but present the feelings, thoughts, and of men, and sometimes of very exceptional and abnormal men. . . The child who grows devout and becomes anxious about the stale of his soul is a morbid and unwholesome child. , . . Tho usual effect of constantly imparting to children an instruction they are not yet ready to receive is to deaden their sensibilities to the whole subject of religion. If it were not so England, alter sixty years of national schools, ought to be a devout nation of good church people.—l am, etc., CHESTEJEEXEIiD.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 3
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154CHILDREN AND RELIGION New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 3
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