EDITORIAL.
BIBLE IN SCHOOLS,
Tii Connection with the matter of using school buildings for tliie purposes of Bible reading in schools a Correspondent alslks for information en the sulbject. Wei quote the Act in l'eply. Section 143, siuib-secitions bi and <j of thd Education Act road as follows : "(b) The scli.olol shall be Kept open five days in each week for at least four hours, two of which in the fournoon and) two in' the afternoon shall tie consecutive and the teaching shall bci entirely of a sddular character." "(ci) The school buildings may be used on days and a.fc hoursi other than those used for puiblia sdh'ool pur-1 poses, on such terras as, the committee maiy from time to time prescribe!." Wo do not dsem it aldivisalble ait this, stage, to: did anything, more than to quote thla Ale*. Our! clorrespondent has other method^ at hfa disposal to achieve the end! he elvildently has in view. So far "as the local committees a<re concerned we ibelitevei that the majority, ff not all, deem it advisable to retain rigidly the present "freis compulsory and secular" system of education. .■'•■'.-
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10357, 4 May 1911, Page 2
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188EDITORIAL. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10357, 4 May 1911, Page 2
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