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SECULARISM IN WALES. I

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SECULARISM IN WALES. TO THE EDITOn OF THE WESTERN MAIL." Sir,-i have read your a,rtide on "Secu- lmm in Wales" with considerab Ie interest, and, in -1. -th hundreds of yom r",dkr>, I cannot do otherwise than doctply lament tlie fact tiUat of 57 schools in England ;ind "ales from which the Bible is excluded no 1- than 50 ohdld be in ti,? land of diaries of Bala, J-- Lilangan, and Rowlands Llangeiflho. Fifty -h-1. in what f.lv known as "Bible-loving- W.I,, in which the W.,d of God i8 not allowed even to be r-d Hun. drdds of children have left, and must be leaving these schools annually iu almost total igno- 1'a.n(.'e of th" elementary trot,hs of Ohri9tia.n:itv Because, however effioknt the Sunday sdhools may be in these, districts, and however well too often the-y are th reve-r8 the amount of religious instruction that can be triven in one how on the Sunday—bearing in mind how quickly oluldren forg-et-18 prac- tically nil. Then, again, what of the poor nhildr-rn who iro nowhere on th" Sunday-the sons and daughters of godless, careless, and intemperate pnrents? Is nothing to be done for them ? We comm.liberate the ignorance of our forefathers in pr^Retformatrion days be. mtiiie tIw, had no (.nen R'ble in the vernacular: ft is to be fearsd that there are young people growing 1Jol> in Wales in greater ignorance of the essential truths of Ohriptia.nifrv than mnnv of those we nity. Religious instruction then -thmv,rh mixed with much elTOT-was thorouaihlv definite. As il1,u^•ira:lline, the result of tbp exclusion of the Bible frwi board scihooijp. a f?i?.d o? mine -u?.d me that, tmv,ttlline in ('?martlimxhire in a certain dis- trict, he overtook a roctuJe (,dren sroing h,-n? fr- "-I- boy and gid. Th? b-, k- ot tvO- vmz. -f ?g-. Aft- few ou?ati,?-. m2,o&Atw tlie^echool he -id, "Can vou tell me, my boy, who Abraham wa-sr'" What! Nsver 'heard of Abraham?'- "No!" "Well, of course you have heard of Adam and Eve, and can tell mo all about th<nr?" "No!" "Do you mean to say that vu'ihave never been told of ourtirst Adam and Eve?" "No!" "Well, perhaps, you have forgotten; but I am sure you can tll tue whu Jesus Christ wa.;?" (With hesitation) *'JSo What! Hüve you never heard of Jesus Christ?" "Yes, I heard the preacher uay something about HIm in the chapel, but I for- sret now!" In the same district—but I need not say where; the itibte had been excluded from the board school—a discussion aroS6 as to the amount and value of the instruction given in the Sunday 8<ht)o')l. The dlS(:U8ël0n took place at a farmhouse. It was resolved to put tlv.5 mather to the "t by calling 111 Mary, the maidservant, who benetiied by the educa- tion the district }u> to givet This Wlù; don". "Mary, who was ,-1U8 Christ?" "He was a I"n." "But He wa.; sometlung more than a man, was 1-ie not?'' "No; He was a. ma.n "But, Mary, Jeeus Christ was God as well as mall." Mary looked incredulous, and then, smiling, she '80m"wha.t blundy requ\38ted her interrogator not to attempt to impose on. her i-edulity." So! 1 know better, He WHS a man I do not SM', "Ex uno disce (imnes." In these two tho boy -d Mary may h.,?, been exceptionally stupid, but I would appeal to t1>e who have had experience in teaching the young, and who knew from experience how uuiviny children forget what, t,hey are told, if Mary and the p -hoolboy may not be looked upon as fair specimens of what may be ex pected in a district where religious instruction is únlv siven one hour a week,I am &c.. M.A. CANTAB.

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