This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...who think that the "godless schools " are a peril to the religious life of the community. I propose to say something on this question when I give my impressions of the religious condition of the various colonies. In this place, however, I may express my belief that the friends of religious education in the public ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...who think that the "godless schools " are a peril to the religious life of the community. I propose to say something on this question when I give my impressions of the religious condition of the various colonies. In this place, however, I may express my belief that the friends of religious education in the public schools have attempted to create popular prejudice against the Education Department in Victoria by exaggerated and inaccurate statements as to the extent to which all incidental references to God are excluded from the reading-books and from the ordinary life of the school. Mr. Pearson, the Minister of Education, is sometimes spoken of as though it were one of the chief aims of his education policy to prevent the children from learning, even by accident, of the Divine existence. Having heard these accounts of him, I was amused at what happened when he was kind enough to spend a morning with me in the schools of Melbourne. At the first school the children were asked to show their loyalty in the presence of the visitor from England, by singing "God save the Queen." I hardly noticed this infringement of the severe "secular" rule; for though occasionally my own congregation at Carr's Lane sing "God save the Queen " on Sunday as part of a religious service, I know that it does not occur to many people that the National Anthem is a prayer to God to defend and to bless the throne. But in one of the infants' schools that we visited, where the mistress was anxious that we should hear how successful she had been in teaching the infants to sing, the children sang a song in which they asked who taught the bee to build its comb, and the bird to build its nest, and some other creatures to do equally wonderful things; and th...
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