The Bible in Schools

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 November 1913, Page 5

The Bible in Schools

BISHOP CRIMES ON TOUR.

FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uniter Press Association.] (Received 9.00 atm.) Fremantle, November 20. Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, has arrived by the Orsova. In an interview, the Bishop said that though he suffered from ill-health on the voyage out through some form of food poisoning, generally lit l had been in the best of spirits. The object of Ids trip was to attend the Roman Catholic Congress at Malta. Thence he went to Rome, where he had throe audiences with the Pope, who expressed pleasure at tin' union of priest and people in Australia, and was pleased that the freedonf of the Church had not been interfered with in any way. Mis Holiness meant that the Church had not interfered with the education, of her children, contrasting the difference in France, where not only will the coumry not help in educational matters, hut the Ministry appears entirely against religious instruction in State schools, the Ministry doing its best to efface the name of Cod front the school hooks. The French Mills istry wiis merely a tool in the hands of French Freemasons. Freemasonry such as exists'in France would not be

dreamt of in Australia. It was stator! 'sometime 'ago that the English Masons repudiated the French’ .Freemasons on -account of their atheistic teaching declarations.