BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 22 November 1912, Page 6

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

[fo the Editor.' 1

Si]',—-With your permission. 1 would direct your attention to the difficulty children attending State* Schools will •experience in learning to think and act to tho best advantage, if the only hook wliid) imparts that kind of information has no place in their curriculum. It will be .impossible to refiiove social unrest until all persons know how to procure their requirements from their Suppiicr, and until the pleasure of accepting benefits from Him bo tins privilege of all. Jt cannot bo a deadly wrong to the young to tell them of the means of acquiring valuable thoughts, force, and efficiency, as explained in the Bible. As disobedience to its law can be proved to be tho canso of all parents ;md" teachers who oppose its introduction into schools must be held responsible for all future evil. Permit me to state that the inability of M'cular education to enable the. human race to' create a v s much as a grain of or to procure an instant's vitality, if.' in itself iiurple evidence of the necessity of young persons becoming acquainted with causes as well as effects if they are to becomo masters of tlie situain which they are placed for all time.—T am, ctc. 3 . !

RICHARD WILLIAMS Masterton, November 21, 1912.

(Since 1877, when the free, secular ■and compulsory .system of education was introduced in New Zealand, the children of this Dominion have struggled along, and the fact that hundreds of those who have passed through tho secular schools are today pillars of the Church should be a sufficient answer to our correspondent.—Kd. Age.)