Sweet Consistency

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 40, 5 October 1905, Page 18

Sweet Consistency

It appeals that the Wellington Presbytery some time ago reorganised their Bible-classes on ' new lines.' So much, at least, we learn from a paragraph in last Friday's issue of our local morning contemporary. But the ' new lines ' do mot seem to have been well baited. At any .rate,, they did not hook, to any great extent, the ' yioumg) fry" for whom they were cast. For the last meeting) of the Presbytery reports a falliixgs-oft in attendance. The Rqv. W. Wood and others furnished a possible solution of the trouble by pointing out that secular/ Subjects were allowed to intrude too much' upon the religious element in the classes. Here are some of the subjects for discussion at tfhe ' Bibie ' classes : 1 Will the motor-car supersede the 'horse ? ' and ' Aro raem superior to animals ? ' Sonne of the clergy pleaded,, in effect, that -a but of Bible would be serviceable at Bible classes— a reminder of Artemus Ward's suggestion that a ' -goal* ' (joke) once in a while is an impro\ement -ta a comic paper. This whole subject, however, has no interest far us except for the moral to which it leads up, and which was drawn with refreshing frankness by one of the speakers 'In view,' said he, 'of the demiawd of the Church far the introduction of the Bible, into the public schools, the discussion of such subjects on ai Sunday afternoon would enable tho editors of seqular newspapers to call attention to the inconsistency; of the Church in making the Bible take a second pliaca in so-called Bible classes.' Air ye listenin', Dr. Gibb ?