The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-20 00:00:00

THE LEEDS CHURCHMEN ON EDUCATION•

Lord Wharncliffe presided over a meeting of cler-
gymen and gentlemen, at Leeds, on Tuesday. Middle-
class education in connection with the Church o
England was the subject of the discussion. His
lordship said that though the London University had
been a great success, only a comparatively feeble
efforts had been made to promote middle-class educa-
tion in England generally. A site had been
offered them for a middle-class establishment
in the West Riding ; would they exert themselves to
occupy it P The basis of the school religiously. must
be that of the Church of England, because if the
Church of England did not bestir herself, and catch
hold of the younger branches and train them into
fervent, sound, and sincere worshippers at her altars,
the progress of secular education would tear them
from the Church. The training must be religious
without being at all sectarian. The Dean of York
proposed a resolution in favour of more middle-class
schools for Yorkshire. Mr. Wheatley Balm rave
£lOO, Mr. Stanhope two acres of land, and divers
large sums were then and there put down.

THE LEA GUE.

The campaign is carried on with uninterrupted
energy. An important conference of Nonconformist
ministers pronounced for the League, at Leeds, on
Tuesday. One Wesleyan minister read a paper in
which, whilst fully admitting the religious
interests in the question, he contended that
the great duty of teaching religion did not
in the slightest degree devolve upon the
Government. It was not the duty of Parliament
to legislate for the world to come. The State
should hold itself responsible for primary
education, and ' leave aelsgiouto training to
those special agrcies which were best e.aapted to
giv9 it. all 110,. o very hi&b,

The Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams, who (lied of,
bronchitis on Tuesday, was born in 181 `3.
He was educated at Eton and King's Col-
lege,. Cambridge, where he took the degree
of B.A. in 1841. Shortly afterwards he became
Fellow and Tutor of his. college, and acted as.,
examiner for the classical tripos on four occasions,
Subsequently he became Vice-Principal and Hebrew
Lecturer at St. David's College, Lampeter. In 18:59,
he was presented to the vicarage of 13roadc'aalkc,
which he held until his death. He Ny!4 the
author of several works, but his most famous
achievement was the memorable review of "ainsen's
Biblical Researches "in "Essafs and Reviews." T)r.
Williams repudiated the complete inspiration-of the
Bible, and rejected the doctrine of eternal pwalsla-
ment. For the teaching in this essay he was
prosecuted before the Court of Arches and the
Judicial Committee of the Privy ebuncil.
The suit came to nothing—Lord Westbury
pronounced a judgment to the effect, that the
" Broadest of the Broad " was permissible within
the test doctrines of the English Church. The Rev.
Henry Bristow Wilson, vicar of Great Stoughton, was
• prosecuted at the same time for the " Essay on the
National Church." The other writers were the present
Bishop of Exeter, Professor Jowett, Dr. Pattison,
of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Mr. Et.oodwin, a
British Consul.

PROFESSOR MAITRICE ON THE CONTAGIOUS

DISEASES ACT.

The ladies' protest against the Contagious
Diseases Act set Professor Maurice thinking. He
signed the memorial not long since in favour of the
extension of the law • but he is now convinced that
he was wrong. With the true manliness which
marks his character he writes to • the Daily
News, confessing what he now considers
hie former error. He says he allowed him-
self to be led by the doctors. He still holds that
everything should be done to mitigate the disease;
he thought the best way to do it was the one
proposed. He imagined that as he could not extin-
guish prostitution lie could make the system a little
less intolerable. But he now feels that the whole
thing is abnormal; that the only way is to repress
it altogether. We men (he says) hoped to make
the curse less awful to the innocent—less
deep degradation to the guilty. "I think the protests
of the lade have shewn us that we shall involve the
innocent with the guilty, that we shall degrade the
guilty more, that we are inflicting an injury on the
whole sex by assuming that any woman can exist to
satisfy the lust of a man. I believe that we have
arrived at a period when the question must be faced
‘which sounds so ridiculous and monstrous to all
wise men about town—How calf prostitution be extir-
pated!' All class feeling must, the rev. professor urges,
be sunk in the prosecution of this new holy war.

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