The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-26 00:00:00

Riuotous ZpooAnor.

TEM IDUCATION CONTROV6BBT.
To Um Mao,.

As your ooevespoadeat"A.K.• hao cods& raker free
use of my ISMS I. his letter is your lot illiwolino4
permit us to ladled. a few of the moo Anion
fallacies which aside/lie his striatum as my address
and whisk go far to rob Mom of all point or oeisof.
Bat In the mearitims allow me to express my regret
that your sormspondent hai not Goodwill Maniil man
strimly to this question in hoed and to the erg lots
okilch I sought to adonis It is hardly to
tell him that mere protestaliong however ydess
be (and "A.K.'i' ars not dodgiest is that quality) to
those degeserete disys go for loathing Wens they are
backed up by sound and cowbirds/ arguments, a
requisite In which •• AM' in somewhat dellakisk If
your oorrespoodest bed bees at all familiar with the
varied phases of this Masan sentroverey he would have
known—let him learn now—Mat the reel question Is
dispute sa between himself and hk opposes'ss kiwi:
whether " Boligicres !deistical" be a desirable th
about whisk there tea In no Os opinions, and in
almost all parties are agreed, although "AK." doge
net seem to be aware of the last; bat sh• real gaieties
=ate li, how CO State which ought fie reopen the
sees of all iti 11111bjeldS, Illiawniies as well
monrikes—for tho farmer hen rights as 101 l es the
latter—how the iltata sea provide web aa eduestioa
without doing great injustice to large sections of the
oommunity, and appearing to favour tha doornail scot
or sots, to the injury and detriment at all Ma others,
se well as to in utter violation of religious equality,
which ought to be, aid orefeseedly is, hold sacred by
the lArste. Ife• "AK.' hid dealt with this sad its
kindred gabfests, Instead of Indulging hi pious eon-
mist, and angeoeross ofigetions on other people, who
are posnibly as earnest in " Belkious lidoetioa" as
himself, to my the least, If tho are less elamorosti la
Moir isprembee about it, he mignt have doe us sub-
stantial navies is this sostroverey; for those of us who
knew very Inns sheet the subject, are
anxion to lists. to such a gentleman as 911.7.1,g
be bad saythlog to gay to us. As it le he to lost
god opportunity, aid geosencllod useful (moo Is
pros, whist I mason but feel might have bees neseh
bolter oicapied. Who doubts, for example. that
"Religious Idaigatlee^ l.a good thing—sod to speak of
the owe of Jesus In pretences to awn of Olsdstswo.
Squire god somebody aloe, aeons which we
woe not aware were freely stollen of in our Banos!
&noels, esposially by "Pious Cogrohmen." who whew
each unholy thloge so "politic. "—and who whis to
withhold such a boom from tin oeseauaity " AK."
most have forgotten his catechism who his imitzd
that those of us who advooste Swale Bei
'domino are thoefore indifferent to it, gad o not
renew *vises a truer interest Is it, mon ehooo who
differ from as, sotwlthstaadios Shut, laid amertioos to
the contrary. Neither "AL DOC his party 040 Claim
say monopoly in this work for those of is who argo.
for "Voluntary Religiose Education,' are psuparsi to
and to show that the
put our prioelples to tin tot,
thing on be doss without doing rialtos* to tin ins-
esteem 0f..; party in the Mete. It Is all voy, nice
for '' A K." to talk about " Politkal Disseeters; as if
forsooth there Is no ersols creature as • " Politked
Churolunen," although sone people, a good many
poolo indeed, lolls' to think that " all
through Is drooled and satursted with polities; or ears
we feel theakful to "AL" sod others like him for his
anxiety for our " spnituel welfare" as Pelitioal
Diessaten, ispecial/y when Ise is rie aweless 'De hi.
own no a " Polities! Obarehroe." Perhaps he
sets on tha prloolplo tea what is SOS Min's
MOM IS mother man's polars. It Is time noir
that Chareksersa gave up this oast of "Poll-
tiesi ikmenter," more esponally es this quo** of
edniatioa, whim the " Heed of this of whose
opposition to the grist mass of his bonbon on this
quostios—diflnswas which however is very slight in
folitl—eburohmea have endeavoured to meke seek
capitol; sod who Ina spokes of his brethren as
unaided by the highest sod holiest of motives sod by
• 'loos rapid to the traditioual rights of eoencienes
for whiels Nosoonformiste have boa over coatooding,
in adooating the voluntary religious Oman= by the
Marches end not by the steropeid official, Or t.bs
doosonationel whom ante, Ido not suppose that
ii'"piteloUouto ttilek
dK, who Will illollode muchfaor ne, u r with
daub "
• small and noisy knot of moo," who have but Mal
swassisasis Ia Us* matter, sad who ars gswaLsti
ay the goalies el ter shilling; MOPS fe to
Iszailts et tie essatry. Of owns IS is Moab to