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The following is an article printed in the Times Educational Supplement on 9th October 1998.

It is based upon an interview with the late Mrs Ann Foster BA, founding principal of Kilskeery Independent Christian School.

We reproduce it as a tribute to her many years of devoted labour within the school and her efforts to advance the cause of Christian education throughout the Free Presbyterian Church.

This week saw the commencement of the 46th year of our school’s existence.

Mrs Foster went into the presence of her Saviour and Lord in the earlier hours of June 8th, this year.

We would ask you to remember that the statements in the article which were purported to be made by Mrs Foster are what a female journalist wrote and would not really be a verbatim report! She obviously unsympathetic to the objectives of Christian education, as is seen in her derogatory description of the interior of the school.

Mrs Foster’s answers were not reported in full and they were not the complete answers she would have given. She was a woman who was very well acquainted with the Bible and would have readily included many quotations from it in her responses to any questions she was asked.

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“Battle to teach God’s own law”

Times Educational Supplement

9th October 1998

“WHEN we have a teacher recruitment crisis we don’t advertise, we get down on our knees and pray to God for help,” says Ann Foster, head of the 52-pupil Kilskeery Independent Christian school in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

She agrees most heads would find that rather an odd method of recruiting staff, but then she is looking for a very particular kind of teacher.

First, they have to be willing to take a 75 per cent salary cut; second — and most importantly — they must share the doctrines of the Free Presbyterian faith, that they alone are God’s true servants in an immoral world, that the theory of evolution is wrong and that all children are natural sinners who must be taught to conform to God’s law. (more…)

Its utter depravity.

Its shameless deceit.

The cruel indifference to the sufferings of the victims of its criminal priests and nuns.

The repeated uncovering of its total ungodliness and denial of all things Christian!

I will leave readers of ‘The Burning Bush’ to check out these articles the ‘links’ to which are below.

Former Christian Brother accused of repeated sexual abuse by former pupil

‘Shocking’ abuse in Ireland’s religious schools

2,400 claims of historical sexual abuse at 308 schools run by religious orders

Ireland to set up inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by religious orders

Whatever the outcome of the ‘inquiry’, we can be sure that Romanism, despite the numerous and repeated exposures of the evil that go on behind its walls, will be excused and whitewashed and the hypocritical bleatings of its ‘sheep in wolves clothing’ accepted by its people and the Irish government!

There is coming a day when its crimes will be justly and fully dealt with. That is the  DAY when God will judge that system of iniquity of which Romanism is today its chief manifestation on the earth. The final manifestation of unclean and false religion, latter-day Babylonism, and its judgment is pictured for us in Revelation 17. (more…)

Alf McCreary began as a journalist in the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ the same year as I was converted to Christ and became a Christian — 1964.

He was 24 years old while I was coming 21!

The very month he began his career in the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, September, I met my dear Ann, who was to become my wife in 1968 and who laboured alongside me in the gospel for 56 years.

Thankfully, the parallel ended in September 1964. McCreary became a chief spokesman for all that was ‘Ecumenical’ and anti-Bible and I laboured to do the very opposite!

He has been reported as being an elder in the apostate Presbyterian Church in Ireland. As such he may have signed the Westminster Confession of Faith as a profession of what he believed and would uphold. Irrespective of whether he did or did not, all that is stated in that Confession he set himself against.

O’Neillism

He was a prominent defender of the ecumenically inspired policies of the late, unlamented, Terence O’Neill, (1914-1990). O’Neill was the Ulster Unionist prime minister in Northern Ireland from 1963-1969.

It was during his premiership that the IRA terrorist campaign had its beginnings. (more…)