BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 December 1912, Page 5

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

(To the Editor.)' Sir.—l hope you will pardon me for reminding you that neither Protestants not Roman Catholics contribute a penny of their own to the so-called State schools, for they cannot create a penny or the ability to earn one for that purpose. The State is only a mass of wants. Without Bible information, it would appear that few would comprehend that tho public Ls being provided with life, thought, and full returns for anything given free of charge. As all irreligious bodies are recipients of showers of unearned increments, it h Unreasonable to expect any of them to refuse to welcome the Being who provides parents for the children and salaries for their instructors into his own schools, whether public nr pr> vate. As education itself, or the process of drawing out thought to .increase the capacity for thought is wholly borrowed from the Bible (Luke V 1.38) the inclusion of its method for increasing intelligence would place young minds under unnatural treatment. I need not inform .you, sir, that nations unacquainted with tho Bible havo been restricted to one set of religion 0 ideas. nor that the contemplation of the execution of its threatened punishments for intolerance upon nations guilty of that crime mark it_ as tho only "perceptible bulwark of civil and religious liberty.—l am etc.. RICHARD WILLIAMS. Masterton, December 13, 1912.

(Wo cannot follow tho reasoning of our correspondent. Are we to assume that the Stato lias no control over tho .schools? If it has not. why troublo to jvsk for permission to read tho Biblo in the schools? Why not leave tho Being who controls every'thing, and contributes everything, to decide- the question without human interferences one way or the other? —Ed Age.)