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The New Zealand Parliament Mistake: Namely The Education Act of 1877!

No. 2.

By this Act the Creator of ALL is virtually shut out of the School-room. His name is not permitted to be mentioned,—the whole catalogue of the heathen gods may be! (Viae No. I.)

That truly great and noble man, who was the instrument of shedding light in the minds and hearts of millions in Europe in the 16th century—Luther—and who also was the reformer indirectly of governments and empires, spoke the following notable and never to be forgotten words, viz:—

"I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt."

Weightly words these, and fit to command the most serious attention of the governing power in every civilised country. The blind infatuation however, of a small majority of the New Zealand Parliament of 1877, has acted the exact reverse, they have deliberately withdrawn from the young of the Colony in their daily schools the light of God's revelation to man,—every child's birthright! They have deprived (robbed) the children of that which is their only safeguard for becoming trustworthy citizens of a new colony. They have so voted, that our Public Schools by having the Book of Books excluded, are in truth nothing else than heathen educational establishments, or indeed worse, for some of the heathen nations have not acted thus blindly! What a lasting curse upon the country, and on the memory of the godless legislators, will follow in the fruits yet to be reaped! Who, who in our N.Z. Parliament will awake to the dreadful consequences that the present condition of blight in our Public Schools must end in. The common foundation of all desirable moral and social life is forcibly removed from hearing! What remains? What? Who will say!

Let the whole Colony of New Zealand remember well the Word of God which says:—Them (Nations?) that Honour Me, I Will Honour, but they that Despise Me Shall be Lightly Esteemed!

Patriot.