BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
The campaign that has been-, started in .tho Dominion in favour of Biblereading in schools is provoking hostility from almost every branch of the Teachers' Institute, and is creating a feeling of profound alarm in the winds of those regard the introduction of the Bible as the first step towards tho croation of a system of donominationalism that will shake tho foundations of an institution that for tlurtyQva years has been the admiration of
the world, and hag stood the test of I every criticism that has been levelled against it. Tho Education Act of 1877, prepared and framed by the lion J C. C. Bowen, providing free, compul- | sory atul secular education, is one of tho few measures placed on tho Stajtule Book of this Dominion that have (defied criticism and havo passed un--1 assailable thi-ough all the chances resuit ant from party government. It. 19 one of the grandest systems that have ever been introduced in tit.- Uritisli Empire. Is there any wonder, therefore, that the insidious attempt to destroy its fundaments should be strenuously resisted by those who host know iis value?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 December 1912, Page 4
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188BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 December 1912, Page 4
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