THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 6

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

EVIDENCE IN OPPOSITION. [Pbb Peess Association.] \ Wellington, October 16. The Education Committee continued taking evidence upon the Bible-in-Schools question this morning. The cross-examination of Mr Caught ley was continued by Canon Garland and Professor Hunter. Witness remained unshaken in his opposition to the League's system. The Bev. D. C. Bates, Church of England clergyman and Civil Servant, said he had had experience of the New South Wales system of Bible instruction and he thought it a failure and a reproach to clergymen. He was of opinion that the majority of teachers were opposed to religious teaching in schools, as it would lead to dismissals and persecution. Schools should not be used as a recruiting ground for the churches. The church was a distinctive! place for religious instruction. It was wrong to attempt to capture the I schools to teach what ministers and ! parents haid failed to impart, The |-State should, in no way interfere with I religion and he deprecated any at- | tempt to influence members of ParbaI ment. He opposed matters of religion I being submitted to a plebiscite.