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The Bible in Public Schools

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 10, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 41.

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The Bible in Public Schools

In New Zealand at the present time there is considerable stir in religious circles over the question of the use of the Bible in public schools. Of this the Herald and Presbyter of Sept. 25, 1912, says:—
New Zealand is greatly agitated over the question of the Bible in public schools. Protestants generally are in favor of what is styled the Australian system, which provides for simple unsectarian Bible lessons given by the school-teachers from a lesson book provided for the purpose, and permits ministers to enter the school during school hours for the purpose of giving distinctive religious instruction to the children of their own denomination. The New Zealand Outlook says that for the following twelve months at least one of its “main missions” will be to “rally Presbyterians, in common with the entire Christian community, to the cause of the Bible in schools.”