THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 6

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

EVIDENCE BEFORE THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. [Pkb Press Association.] Wellington, October 14. The Parliamentary Committee taking evidence on the petitions against the Religious Instruction in Schools Bill resumed to-day, one witness being Mr John Canghey, M.A., who opposed the passage of the Bill. Mr Caughey said he was headmaster of the Christchurch West School, and. had been appointed by the Teachers’ Institute to oppose Bible-reading in schools. The system of secular education set up in 1877 was not antagonistic to religion. The children received a moral training by men or women who were mostly Christians, and this moral teaching would be negatived by the proposals of the League. If the Bible were the word of God, it was strange the League would want the hook secularised. The League was prepared to lot the Bible remain under a ban unless it be secularised. State interference only tended to deaden religion. If the State introduced a scheme which was repugnant to Catholics, # they would undoubtedly ask for grants for their own schools.

The committee resflmes this afternoon to conclude cross-examination.