CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 38, 17 January 1874, Page 9

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOE. Sik, — Your readers will perhaps take somo interest in the following little anecdote illustrative ot the working of the Government system of education 111 this Province. I give the tale exactly as 'twas told to me, premising that tlu sourco fro.n which I hal it preclude* doubt as to its authenticity. A little boy, receiving instruction in the Government school at Kmapoi, iv the Province of (Jante.bury, gJve, to the persons who repeated tlm words to my informant, the following as the substance of part ot a lecture; we will suppose on " sacred history," by one of the teachers in that school : — " Martin Luther was a very good Catholic priest. He looked into the Bible an-i could not find where it was written that the Po;)e could Open and shut hell and heivcn. A bishop made wafers and said it was the body of Christ, and then he took wine and said it was the blood of Christ." The boy, on being asked wl.y he did not say fiat all that was false, replied he was airaid of the cune. He was afterwards questioned by my informant to whor.i the words, taken down from the boy's lips, were n^ ported, when he repeated not indeed the ipsissima verba, but the substance of them.— Yours, Mr Editor, OATH'iLICUS; Christclmrch, New Zealand, sth January, 1574.