The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-12 00:00:00

Local anb District OttoS•


EDIMATIOH CONFERENCE.
A wee•bell en the reduestles qaetioe, eider eho
sartme of the Haelesal Educates..
pridLesoree, wee had
TN • bele Miesdarese orNivelegacerrietkerecis
bat Na ad the fletablielimest there was
reillette7.7.itli tiott," perish warden of Holy Trinity.
The shale wee tehen by Matthew .
the mates ad the Rev. T. liena,Dln
Iffisteep, q. edon by J.
Re
The Oitennealt, in ovate' the preseedinv, said es
eduraties was sow a coatios of parantoust import-
"TM eery glad ftey hide gentleman to address
theN Idle wee weelPetent to alsow the difference between
good sad bed 'donative. Tllol‘ WY strange teaching
abfe•• be t•be Pentent day, aid it Femme them to take
bad wha was taught.
Mr. H. T. L the leeta . mid he under-
there was • deficiency of 'oboe' aerninmodation
Dweimisblet and behoved that before long • School
Board weld be oesepelearily established. Ile refserra
to the general slams of the question, and set forth the
programme of the League to be the anlication of 00111•
pedant everywhere, rate-supported schools, and the
setedar ohareetee of the teaching. The permissive
compulsion of Mr. Forster's Idecalion tot he allied •
milk -and-water mode of meeting the difficulty; and he
averred the deseninatiosel myelin had failed, a was
shown by the mar of ignerenes that 11411 annasig the
artiamos ci towns and the aviculture' laborious to the
country. If educated he said the latter ease would
has bed the knowledge loop ago to combine and act
better their position. Of 115,000 Dosing parishes only
about 300 have School Boards the rat beng under the
'Squire and Pantie web. He naiad that there wee
compulsion in the AA under eirtan 011511111151111008, but
he maintained that it was so beset with notices and
delays as to be modestly leeperative. Had the leaders
of the Morel party takes the bad therough lona
they did in regard to the Irish Chunk. they would
have ketmaangtogether the Putt but he believed it was sow
rapidly up for want of oonfideses le the leaden.
They meanest on such an arnendmenta the Let as not
only to bring educates within nerd of al, bet wand
Its acceptinoe on the mond that ignorant"' le • fruitful
scores of wineries end came, and that It I. bettor to
p'y the schoolmaster than the relieving officer and the
policeman. Even onagers of church-schools who had
made greet effort, to provide school acoommodatico
'mad*/ the dime'ss of the direheem Planed that they could
not get ball the moans into tee seems. oozy—Leo.
would mainly moon be the law everywhere, and before
that was the ass be urged on them the bnportasies of
getting repealed the Sitit steam, otherwise all aildren
would be forced into the admen gehoole—in ecsentry
places almost invariably deseethatiesal schools. With
sompulatea they should alio have has beating. He
wee aware local rates were now heavy, bet he urged
education as a state secordty and • proper charge on
national renew" What portion of the education rare
should come from local taxes and what hoot national
taxation he did not prettied to lay down, but he hoped
It would be provided for by the Premier when Uneaten
in hie bill on Local Taxation. Then be urged that the
education gives should be molar only, sod that they
should leave to the religious bodies and numerous velar
Maieletiesepeoilic igione teaching. He quoted Hugh
and a Wandsworth clergyman to prove the
religiose /Swaim gives in elementary day abode Is
very poor stuff and ineffective In Its results. He also
maintained that the present teething favours atiteriee
prejudice. Ho was sorry their appestats hold " sec-
tarian" to be synosymoss with " Irreligious" education,
and he sad moot of the member, of the League took
the Bible ae the foundatloe of education, but they
would have religious teaching imparted by Its special
instructora. Then the levy's( of rata for religions
inalreeilen is astray to the spirit of the tot, and
maintaining denostinsUonal edsoallin menet@ the
general establishment of School Boards and free de-
cades everywhere. Finally be protested against the
denolnatioaal features of the hot, because they
serve to maintain priestly authority over civil elan,
for the Bate has nothing to do with mates of son-
soleoes—(applauee). The apathy of some name-
termite and the union of others with their opponents
serprieed him, bemuse essay bad refused ad to their
sanes sod sought the separation of Coosa sad Stele,
5,0 a
key joining with upholder. of deseennatlosal Isech-
they helped to make church aid Mateanew by
• chain round the :elude of the yessi in our
Nations' 'shock. It wee said by some they should
submit to the will of the majority. bet be asked
majority where in the realm of Qua. Victoria !
Then they moat be Buddhists; or should it be the
majority of the United Kingdom, or sea member of it!
Timm as Soothed le Presbyteelon, sad Ragland Bybee.
Cl, Ireland moat be Roman Cabello. Or should it
oth shire, city, town, parish, or individual He
nudeolned that the lea was the pence to dead*.
ad that nary ledividoel should have she.
lute freedom of 005004005 The oonselesce deem be
argued WY insufficient to protest poor people,
especially in country Owes ; and he aged that religious
should be like other "extras' in eshoole—be
teaching
▪ et y extra teachers at extra times on being asked
for by those who wanted it, instead of beteg only with-
held on requisition. He wee not sunned that many
towns objected to School Bards seeing they everywhere
produced ill-looding and inocased the evil passions of
men. But thee ills he maintained Gould be got Hi of
by haring sectarian leeching oily. Another objection
to this Ate is that it is autray to modern Liberal lege.
lane. On the question of Bible reading he showed
that those who mai for that are • little inconsistent,
because if they believed in it being reed without inter-
pretation there were ROOM Catholics sad High Church-
men, who would think that worse than any dogma
unless interpreted by authority, and their views were
entitled to respect. Really it could not be done to toed
all objectless; and the only fair way was to leave
all creeds alone free and eqal—(applause). In conclu-
sion be urged them to joio tie league In this new
Reformation fa Cial and Religious liberty --(mephitis).
The Rev, T. Nuys pried the following resolution:
—"That Gib meeting cordially approves the programme
of the National Edooation League, and especially that
part which seeks the unconditional repeal of the 25th
clause of the Education tot, and which provides for
the levying of a rata for denominational sod sectarian pur-
poses, as a violation both of the principles of Liberalism
and religious equality ; and Otago' itself to use every
effort in its power to give edict to such resolution."
The part at the motion the; I wish to speak to prima-
cipelly in the few obierrations which I shall offer to thb
meeting, respects the twenty-fifth elates of the Ede:lo-
tion Am, which provides for the levying of rates foe
damn/Moos' school', and which is technically known
as the "Religious difficulty." Now those of ea wise have
given any attention to this quake, have dies/nod
that this is a real difficulty; sod no coo more so than
Kr. Forster himself, who treated it it first with
something like oesteroptuous indifference in the expecte
boo of eddy "cantering over It"; but no sooner had
the right honourable gentlema mounted his steed
than he discovered that the enterprise on which he had
entered wee • much more formidable ease than he bed
anticipated, ad doubtless fat as he " metered " sae(
that it might possibly sod in breaking his seek; still
with a tenacity which dies credit to his Foolish pluck its
still holds to his saddle, and intends to do se until he is
dislodged from hie sea, which I hope may shortly be
the ease by 1511111111 of the Edwatios League. But ia
truth the religiose &Salty I.aysry real 0511, and
while I hold very decided views es the quaint.
still I wish to spook respectfully of throes who differ
from me, end who I doubt not, an actuated by oesed.
=time snotnem. I felt how greet the difficulty was
with which 11/. F 005515 bad to oostend, and while
making all necessary allowenees for his position, still I
am bound to remember that he wee a member of •
liberal Cionsment which had bees earrled triumphantly
Into office, chiefly by the power of the Neoconforeilets,
and on • programme whose dila sable wee
"Religious Equality," We did expect, therefore, that
In any Bill on Netball Edualion there would be some
resovitioe, if not el our hearty arid loyal services, at
kali of our polities' power and Influence in this
conatry ; but to oar maim and bitter disappoint-
meat we found that the most Conservative meseure of
this mangy, and which I man bold to an wadi
never have bees carried by • Cossernaive administra-
tion, was, by the help of the Opposittee, and is the
Ices of the most earnest restoestranas of thee beet
heeds, carried by • so celled Liberal Admiaistration.
Thb Is our oontentioe, and U I as wrosg I stand to be
ocenoted by this meeting. This twenty-fifth clause
was • ctinsot viontlon, both of the principles of
Liberalism and of "Religious Equality," and we are
hers to-night, at least I am, and thou who sympathies
with me, to ask that this 25th ammo be repealed, end
In promise our most anneou effete to the Mastic*
Leave to offset this end. Further, I might to say
that this twasty-fifth clam whet it wee emoted by
the Reese cd Ocensecas, was tioi seen to be fraught with
the mbehiel which has 011105 bees produced by it: ens
Mr. Former himself admitted that be did not, at the
thee, pensive to what ems the clause might be appro-
priated Well, we sae forgive • ma the sin of short-
eigiseednise, sopeeteny ma • man as Kr. Forster, who
tees seldom vale of ewe scis but we mance so
easily enemas a men, when, having sees his fault, he
esker either to scalene or "hoodoo it. This Is the
ere ci llt. Tereler : be sees bow this twenty AL 111 015051
ean be appropriated for the purposes ot desooliaattonal
end salaam education, end
..et he doggedly Muses
to prevent them evU .e, by to repeal the oboes
Thom is our position with regard to Mr. Ponta, sad
the Gladetoe• Administrates. Toe have violated the
paostples of Moralism ; you have violated the prisapies
og B.*ipaii Equality; we ask you to retract; we do
not ma you to draws farther oath. Nees of Litigable
than you have gone, that is mother matter about which
we shell have assetiting to ray another day; meantime
on have to do with your pest sets; you have retrograded
from your Liberalism, from your programme on which
yea took office, and on which, in the dleettablishmeet
I oeaoot say the disendownient, for that ahurolo is a
wealthy if sot wealthier, sea hoe eceporatioo, than it
was U established) of the Irish Obern, you acted; but
is the matter of Rational Eduestios you retrograded,
and we ask yes to woo book to your capital 'tending
point itod programme, sad until you do so we shall
you a reaegodes to your prisolpled sad shall with-
hold whatever support we haves, give you, until you do
so. This le my politico, genliamen, and I hope It is the
postage of • growing number of votere is this town;
for Ism given to nadentuid that Liberalism le Pining
geoid in Dorchester, and I hope we shell moos hen
the opportunity of teeing the fast, by going to the
pal for • thorough going Liberal medicate. It
will not be neoesms7 for me to speak farther of the
arose of this 28th eteose. The "Bea of It, as has bees
on admirably pointed out to-sight, le to appropriate
pubis mousy for merely desemintlional and senalen
made For example, If there were • School Bead
termed in this tows, whisk notwithasediag the
omit repressstatlooe of the Dorset Ciresick is the
"Amy,l hops may be speedily the ease, the seeefilime
of that Board would have it in their Deem t
saa
ratio pramiesueedy to fill up the a
with the children of the poor. For example, I es a
liesoosformist, would be Rage for • rate to teeth the
ablidren of Chitral ci logiend parents the eatables
eel formeleries of that Church; the fad that I eon.
eelostionsly objected to that temilne, the feet that I
might think it exceedingly dangerous Mashie& opiig
be of se seal ; I must pay the nes, or soffit the spoil-
t:lmy geode. My Baptist brother who Mate
baptise, would have to pat Cot =peon the teach-
ing of &wales' , al loss might regard
Abe &Mae with==ion. ow I pet it to the
meratieg whether each an Let as this is hat mod junk
sad wheal" IS our Jr to be Zeled 7 We b•••
Sloffillited the Ad rsiva tat Is air* a men

objestanahle a, sad we gall do well if we demised
that it he moiled, sod religious reality inserted in
re Bill of Naiad lidurratoo. IL Oar art portion
is, that in the Mee ef the enormous difleultles is the
Inv of say religieue edemas be the star It la this
duty of the stale Amply to provide the people with •
free, aserar, and mixed literary lakilarhee, haw* It IS
the alone deardeatia to eapply the rtilgtoua
element themselves. I nrp this shim on any 'remade.
I. I hold it is 'digit:.
is the dates of the civil ruler
to harder with It ae part of hie protects
ta use perk money or the purpose of tablas lay
religious dogma, ear is it his previa to support all
religious as dogma,
giving mileage alimittY• 14i
then are multitudes la this eeuntry, who would °bier
and objer most straandudy,to the appUtiatioa of parte
feeds to the terra( of degrees whir were held to be
at reser with the pried area of religloa as they
uudersteed them, sad which we,. hamlet to the well-
Wise of tb. date. The duty el the civil rater, to this
ore is, to withhold all mimed from every form of
religious table& and make its abettors themselves
response'''. for it. This is the true solution of this
dialeulty, and there ore many who as hegira to
dawn this fast, and by sad by. it will drakes be
unitanially abated. I. Thee I object to the stets
interfering with religlou roar of it. neatness to im-
port It. Can our Naticatal Seboolls really give the
, children • religious Warta I Ido net wish to utter
one word whir might seem to savour of the
ap ea of dlsrespect of • most worthy
504 useful body of citizens, I refer to our sehoolmes-
.
, ters ; men who see doing an inestimable sear to their
ementry,sed like many more useful public **events, but
inadequately remunerated for their arta SUll I
ask, are theee men to be regarded as the reel appointed
, teachers of religion Is it their proviso.? Are they
, fitted for it I believe they are not. That it is too
, much to oak this of thorn; their dare at. eonerted
with the secular branshes of education, the three Rs.
and if they do this work well, they do as roach as we
ese fairly ask of them, and we ought to be prenared to
supplement their labours by other agora which I
, shall presently mention. But it me sow endeavour to
support the posita which I have jail arserted. What
, do we meat by religious rata ? I ran by
It lbo full unfold* of our sadist condition,
and not • little geography of the Holy Laad,or a general
smashilare with the fair of Holy Scripture. I
regard it as the spiritual appreatt of the heart to the
heart • tits unfoldiag of the love of God, in Christ; the
exhitglionot Christ es the Saviour of the world. Are
you papered to ask this of boar schoolmarm If so,
you =ea he meeting to samaylcing more. You
must be prepared to see, aed we with the pateurab
fare that they are ebearted, spirituel mac to this
what the Govarunteut are prepared to do Ara they
to lastitute mush aa examination? If not,
MTh:loot say that they give Stigler lidratee.
Let sot our denentaidial ether say that they give
lialigians Ideation, U anything Lathan trek ghee
Religions Unarm lees thau this le • roamer, it iso
cheat, • delusion, • sham, sad the sooner the sham is
exposed the better. I, thereon, oak a Sate to
stand aside from religica as utterly ineompatent both
In Well sal He ants to impart it, and to leave it to
three who are called of God, Led fitted by God, to do
It. le oddities to what I have tam smarted, I.lw.
further say, as eadirmatay of my position, that while
the °overeat petreedes religiose inetracitiee they
'are all responalbillty se to lie characteir sad
adequacy. They do not examine In this abject. Se
that we have this early, • private body as the
moosger. of • denominational sobal for earl& sp.
propng State fluids lee which they give no moat.
This spirit is us-English and ought not to be tolerated.
Let all funds whir are public, and drawn from the
rotes of the sommunity, or the national *eraser, be
publicly amounted for, and let the people have a votes
In myth, ha, than mores are to be appropriated, I
would have magus of public or ,et.-old.d schools, as
muob amenable to public crake as Yr. Lars himself.
But in the present state of things this is hapossible.
The Mania are hooded over to irresponsible peril«,
sod we arso in this position, that we are giving public
fends for mealy privets we., without being able to
know how these monies are expendaL & But now, If
J am not trespeedng on the prima of the meting. I
✓yas to zay trouser potties, the duty, via. of the
°harsh to see to the religiose arieg of the year.
And her. I must be allowed to express my very strong
avietioe, that evea as matters are, the wajir part of
the religious airing of the young, soma already from
the °burr ; from the Sunday stool agars, which
are the glory of this merry, sad which, with some
little amendments, might be rendered perfectly 'degas
forth. religious lastation of the young. I shell give
Ito. my earnest aviation that it all the religiose la-
strut= whir to given in our primary and day school.
were suspended to morrow, the loss to the religious
beaching of the young would be almost impartible •
so little of real religious lastruotion is imparted la thi
day abed, and so largely Is that inetrueta provided
folio tie Sunday school. Let the char, therefore,
address herself to this work; let her adapt her apnea
to it ; let her but feel and anderstand that it Is her
irk, and there is no rare, as far or I an re, aid I
boa tried to look at this question from rev sides ;
there is no rears why the work should not be Ardently
done. I know the oblations or to the more than
enough of labours which the church bee Is hand already,
and her unfitness to take in hand more. It is
rid to be the glory of lieglishmen that they dial know
when they are beaten ; It ought in a far grander Men
to be true of the Christian Church that she laws not
when she has done rough. Oae thing I sm eare of,
the Christian Church has not done scything like her
duty to the lambs of the Book; nothing like her duty
to the children of the people. Let her adder,
herself to the work sow; let not the ordinal,
rasher he taxed with work for which in num.
balsa Sallee he may have but little adaptation,
and, with the ordiaary work of the school, but little
time; and let him, if be be • good manor( whom wri ore
glad to think there are many, very ray, among our
cabers, avail himself of the opportunity of imparting
religions instruction, aa say ether laymen at Christ..
minister may do it, not as • Stir pild oiler ; huts.
• servant of that Lord, whose hire is love, and whom
grandest impulse for as to serve Him Is His love to is,
"the love of Christ *cesareans," sad should castrate
each all of us in this work. And if this method were
adopted sure, I am, that • mach higher order of religious
aching would prevail, and we should get rid of ail
this urethra bitterness sod wrangling, which in my
soul, I believe le doing more at We moment to die-
honour religion, and to irks its by-word in the mouths
of lie adversaries than all our efforts either as shareru
or teachers, to preenote it. Personally I am prepared to
unite with soy Evangelical Claire& Minister te pro-
mote the religious well being of the calla ; and if
rah areciations were formed I. out town.; if the
Christie° people could agree upon so mash of sound
evangelical religion as would be deemed pettish'o tor
the children' I for one wadi hail such asalatioas
with all my heart, and r some oreributies towards
the solution of that "religious Mirada" which Kr.
Forster, contrary to his expectation, km found it so
bard to grapple with. I do net believe it can ever be
solved by legislative enactment, area' it be sated
that the Mate cannot interfere with It; ear grant
monies for its support, but mast leave it as • volustay
war for then to discharge who hays faith in it, and
Melt to preempts it. This would be • solutes of the
&Salty worthy of English statesmanship, and would
odd One more to them ray triumphs of Christian
pirtheiple in which this oaty hae never been wasting;
to war of WS, with mine little mamba loss, it
hea been so greatly airing Hart and la which re
tree national grottoes' Ars, now, and mast always see-
sit. la no spirit of 'stair narrower. bre I wished
to view this question, but on broad grounds of naiad
jesta aad fainter and I bre that it .ayb.seeshy
our liberal legislators tote their duty to glee offer la Me
earnest, sad repeated remoostrares of so trays( lb*
friends, on this all imparter questa- Of arse I
know that In all that I have advanced I shall be raw
terrier simply as Impracticable, • theorist, and were
dreamer. The work it will be ateeded must be der
is our day schools, or not at all. Who says it is er
predicable ? Has it been tried? Usti/ it lam been
tried, let no or dare to say it is not praleable. I
believe it is prasticable, and hundreds better able Is
lodge then 15., breve 111. practicable, and anti the
*harsh has put forth her utmost power, let her net sr
re is set able, and let not She secular powers Interfere
with it. And if the thumb fail, ales I foe her. Hor
power and her glory are deported, and we had better
then reeds ourselves with the vain prosper of • earl
life raretreed by mere raid, pirate'ss bearing the
sesiblanat of religion- I believe aide' of the 'dad,
and therefore I ask for • trial from the March, sad
when she begins to make that trial, so era shall a dd.
ear strath which she little drat of, like the Kra
with a plied hand who as be etraelbed it forth fell
It sabered by more than ite rated life, sad the Isom
man, who.. he sonirks to stand up aid walk, felt br-
eed posseased of • new barn sap and strength. The
shwa has the power, it needs simply that she make
the alert, to dissever its prase and its 'dray. I
had farther 'Blooded to sey something cm the coming
quake 01 1,1.1. Natal Education. I shall ocotssd
myself with air that if you ease to support •
denominator! Errata la this wiry sod is Ser
lead, olailitigrand I set you a yes lase Ara-
bishop
idaeres to ife=l,:laisest having givsa
Ed=istaio
laread, yeti ask I. Maeda fram
Ireland? Or Oleg lien NU yea is, that having gas
the favour to Isola sad Sart% If you oriebSeld It
hem Ira yea will Idris sett • are el Hair
norrities to your Beatieb iejtuales, ae shall obliterate
all your pat Iliad adatialaretion, sad AU Ostholle
Ireland free sad to sod with deepest indigarion sad
hatred :sad I for one could et bras them. What tiger
lot Begird is good for Ireland, and if denomina-loar
eduaariou le • right thing hers, it is not • wrong thing
there, and indeed as far as I .awe it le simply six anti
hail a dozen for the most of ; and the gentleman IS
whom lam absit to refer is prod at this eating,
but less not why that atreusidatiae sherd deter ma
from saying what I mat to say In his abaft! Ma
of us have jest been nadir • senor fall of morel
auras and Integrity by a elerpreaa who has just left
the Chareh of Begird to our nerd beam 'heartier
Is no longer • Protestant church, but the abettor of or
of the wont data of the Church of Rome. Se that
having determined that our ehildren in larger ambers
than we ears to think of shall new he timer la our
Natant Char schools the dogmas of Brianisen, on
what groutd I ask can we deny the like privilege to
Head, WIWI the thing will be had at least from the
odirhuii rums, and sot from the socartue dilated,
sad esecod-head earl of English Church Rossaniso,
which the seas of the tree zaother-sharah as wag,
repudiate as easier Aad IS is jest pair thse
many they have Gard their religious educate!'
, carsitarmimapitzl, may Gad theesselem in NM
Zoom= ebe , who when he wee asked by his
geed ehapiath to orkaCreligkie he heaped rogoo,o.
"Bakke', Sir I I have no relon ; I below to the
Marsh or isguad.• W.llto 'flow d thine trftlllndowl
and I would add admen questions, I think I may fatly
ask you to give your aid to the principle. of this sorely
Orr I think are clearly Ciristiao prineiples, and Soo&
to sr..ots the best intent of education, bsch secular
sad religious, wart amid all our anderndiou difficult*,
are the crate whir, in our sideline ways, we ere all:
I bellows, osaustly imoshrlasy so dare. I beg to move
reeoiata which I have read.
Ate BLIIISOP said he very etttillal feeeltdett the
resolution proposed by the NT. pothare, who
feared ant with • most shady expressed
area sash on thle leonineesee rabbet. ae did
net heifier It possible that under the operation of the
• Tut &m.o. J. Ltd who bas- Mart the Ohara In Dr
darer snowed the SW In the nem el She pteeeedhoge—
Hems the Maw

Blenentary Ideedkie ABl they wild ever eneserefally
deny on the educed's of the oblkiree of this eern=
begun of the dillionity whish the Ad had i
There had beau • " religious dzillealty" la this wonky
ill his Vat From the manses period whir be began to
teed and think on the subject hi saw there wee
lantenes Ailleally la proceeding with the geseral
eineeden of the country. At that time It was deeded
eineetiou was wanted at all, its had heard it shned
Veer and over again when he was a gnat BIMINI: as a
stud, that the eduriation of the lurking elasseeern net
required, and not oely that but It would be dangerous
to giro it to tbein—(heer, hear). Meer • nag outset
and • great deal of Urea *uttering, they came to
unbar phase of the gamin& It was ant said,
"Very well, If we do *dunce tin working cheese, it
must only be doe* by asthurised Urchin." Another
eontroveny ensued, and was coolianed for many yeau
some outman& sad oftea on in • religiose open,
that edneation could only be safely supplied by eee of
the oesoruleatioes—the Ohara of this country. By
degrees that nabs of things was modified, and they
arrived at the tim• whoa • Liberal Government
prorated a measure to settle the question once for all,
on the priaelple that ever, boy and girl in the reentry
should be adequitely eduested, at least in the
elnientary subjoin. necesessry for the proper training
of their faultier Hs looked forward wilt hope to that
Bill, and when It was introduced In dr. Forster he read
the paper with great interest. He was sorry to Ind
that In the measure sketehed then were still pre.
served some lincariag ranee of the old spirit of denomi-
national pretenses. is it became alter wards
embodied In the 25th ensue. Ile said to him-
self, 'This will never wink the question," before
he had spokea to any on. on the subject: he was
minted the preernatius of ewe • provision in the Lot
wadd nine in Upland such an amount of feeling and
opposltios as would outgun pewees it from being •
settlement of the teener. He fully agreed with whet
had hiss sald—that it is possible to have what Is sailed
the "bit,., part" of rein taught in our suborns.
Bit the dlffernese that exist as to whet rionstitates
religious destine It• thought readmed it impeseibie
that the preesel provisions of the hat Gould be sadder
Way to nillißeallen to the public elementary seinen.
It would be a glides thing lf they nun ecru on •
selection of Bidpsre. for ashools—U tiny *odd lasat
este three beantifel—bat beautiful was far too weak •
word to apply in this subjen—thaes holy asd godlike
sentiments introdueed to the world by the author of
Christianity sad spokes on the slopes of the Yount of
Olives and he ether plans during tbe life of Christ on
this earth: that wand be • state of Wags likely to
1.1. ff erect poses en earth. ,Ilat
he feared that, was no possibility of doing it, and oust
the oaly way out of the present dlilleulty ereated by
the relseation Age is to adopt the programme of the
Lows% sad make public elementary dunks satirely
secelar—(applause.) Very often eneediagly nude
Ideas prevailed sa to Moll weals, tessiing and religiose
eduoetioa tronaisto la. Inatrestioa f and
=and formularies, sod Wags of that sort were ilea-
religious edandes ; but they ell knew r
was • present meteor, esnesraiog the heart anirr
it Unions lite higher and wider atheneum of our
eaten, and will sake a ma nest& and happy la this
world, sad will prepare him for the If. bend ter. And
✓ender education maul the training of the mind of the
young to noble limitn to work oat the higher problem,
of tlielr duty la every phut of after Ille. He (medially
snonded the motion, sad noticipated • Senn time
when people would be able to discus this question
withoet referson to any of our differnoos, sad eistirely
in the is.. spirit of Chriatin faith, all aiding to
advance the common objects of the gospel—(epplusio).
'no 011•11111•11 Invited remarks from any pen=
present: but no one aesepied the invitatiou.
The reenntioe was carried without &mut

1;7 i47;ii-m- :-.7b3;;;4 -tiu:i "ii;" ii.-W; &wind to
torn • brsaeta of tile League to Dorehester, sad the
lesturer said ta•mbership vu constituted by a pay-
meat of Is. s year sad upwards.
A rote of tatmaks to th• Chairmen dosed She pre.
cesdiage.