BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.
We feel it a duty to -warn our readers against signing petitions for ■ or. against Bible-reading in schools until the matter hais been placed clearly before them. At the present" moment a petition is being canvassed fi*om door to door, and we have reason to think that women have been induced to sign, it without understanding either its contents or its objective. This is clearly not a proper method of testing public opinion. If cur splendid system of .secular education is to be wirecked for the sake of removing the responsibility for religious training from the Church and the parent, and placing it -upon, the shoulders of the teachers, then let us place the position fairly and squarely before the people. In view of wliat is happening just now, we would urge those who wish the preservation of' our education-system, which" has stood the test for thirty-five years, to organise and frustrate the designs of the well-meaning ecclesiastics.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 24 January 1913, Page 4
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159BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 24 January 1913, Page 4
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