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Title: The Bible in schools: being reasons stated for the reintroduction of the Bible into the schools of the colony

Author: Alexander Blake

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1

Mr Macandrew was intimately acquainted with the Scriptures, and held that their acceptance as the guide of life is indispensable to the production of that 'righteousness which exalteth a nation and is the glory of any people.' Hence the passion with which he desired to have Bible-reading in the schools of the people. I have reason for saying that it was his belief that our representatives are coming round to the right views on this subject. He thought that the new parliament would give school d…

Mr Macandrew was intimately acquainted with the Scriptures, and held that their acceptance as the guide of life is indispensable to the production of that 'righteousness which exalteth a nation and is the glory of any people.' Hence the passion with which he desired to have Bible-reading in the schools of the people. I have reason for saying that it was his belief that our representatives are coming round to the right views on this subject. He thought that the new parliament would give school districts option in regard to this important matter. Mr Fulton, M.H.R., has just informed me that Mr Macandrew, on the very morning of the accident, had made arrangements for calling together a meeting of the members of both Houses of the Legislature in Otago, who are interested in Bible-reading in schools, for the purpose of deciding what should be done. I understand that the following were among his reasons for seeking the Bible in schools:—(I) It is honoured by many as the word of God. (2) It has created our civilisation. (3) No man is educated who is ignorant of its contents. (4) The consciences of minorities can be protected by a conscience clause, by time-tables, by denominational gran's. (5) The conscience of the nation forbids continuance of the barbarism in having the Book of books alone in an index expurgatorius of democracy.