BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 April 1914, Page 7

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

At the Victorian and Tasnianian Methodist Conference recently held in Melbourne, the following resolutions dealing with the Bible in State schools (Juestion were passed:— (1) This conference avows its deliberate conviction Ihat the State can with general advantage undertake only the supervision of non-sectarian Scripture lessons by the teachers, but believes' special advantages will accrue if ministers end church representatives are also allowed opportunity of more direct religious instruction within scnool hours, as in other Australian States, and re;/:'r'N these provisions as a reasonable sol'tlion of the 'vicious education prob-

12) This cotn'ercncc, representing ttJ-yiOO Victoria i: Mej-liodists, esprt-sse* its linn intention i'o use' Its utmost power at the for! h. oming general citation to secure ilie return of only such members of P;;r! v.eieut as will either directly legislate t,.r the introduction of Scripture lessons into lb." State Si-liooi course, or faro: ti.c remission of the matter to the ele.iors by a single direct referendum qin-s! :oii. The Rev. J. \ichnisoii, Methodist Minister, has been ;;pp iin(ed organising -ecretary of the !;:!.!>• in State Scliools league in Vuierli. and the conference lias specially replied him of circuit work in order ii,*'. he may devote iiis whole time to 1 ! lie necessary work.