BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43088, 4 May 1907, Page 4

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Apparently thie Americans have miamigecl'to overcome .host of the difficulties in regard to religious teaching that appears to be such 7 lam ihisupeiraible carrier in New Zealand. We note! that :he Secretary of‘the Wellingt>n Bible ni Schools League has published details of the results of inquiries made xmcerhing the steps that are taken in various countries for imparting religious and moral teaching to the chilIren in the public schools. He unstinted his inquiries a year or tWo ago, rad has received a large numlber of eplies. The great majority of them anie from America in answer to a lirefar question as to what use was icing made of the Bible in the work f education. The following is an investing summary of what is being one in the various .State® of the great epribl'ic: r—Maine, “Bible daily read p school for 270 years”;, New York, [Bead daily for 250 years”"; New lampshire. "Read daily since 1623”; lermont. ' “We encioutriage Bible-read- ; District of Columbia, feible teid and Lord’s Player repaetEehfuciky, “Generally read”; |ennessee, .“The Bible is our rock of Irblic sa!ety , . , Alabama, “Custom in lir schools neither enjoins nor for■ds”; MSississippi, “The Bible is not ■eluded* > and is generally read.” ; Irkainsas, “Bead in 'part of the Boola”; Texas* •' “Bead in some Kocla”; West - Virginia, “No law Ehibitmg Biblq-reiading”; Delaware, ftble-reading universal”; PennsylEiai, “Thiel Scripture must not .be Bitted”; New Jersey, “Read in Erly all schools”; Georgia, “The ■>lo cannot foe" excluded”; ConnectiE “The Bible has always been read’; Issaohusetts, “Bible has been read! in EooOsi for 27% years”; Maryland, lead daily in our schools”; South ftblina, “Generally read”; Rhode End, “Universal custom to read the ftiptures” ; Indiana, “The Bible shall ft be excluded”; 'South Dakota, ftay 'be read without ■ sectarian com* Hnt”; Virginia, “Bead in! nearly all Bools”; Ohio, “We thoroughly V> fte in it, as it bias a good’influence |En our children”; Missouri, “Odftaal; Character-building, is an ini-ft-tant factor with us”; Nebraska, ftrocmras'e moral culture ; generally ftd”; Kansas, “Read in part of our Hpols”; Wyoming, “Left to local Hrds to decide”;; Colorado, ‘Tlead ftsome schools”; New l York City, Hies observed for nearly three cen- ; and all schools are opened by Hirng the Bible.” No infonnation is: as to whether the Bible is road {Hun or outside school hours.