SCRIPTURE IN STATE SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9314, 15 January 1896, Page 3

SCRIPTURE IN STATE SCHOOLS.

TO TUB EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I am afraid that the above heading will scarcely be considered a fittiug one as regards the correspondence between the controversial "X.Y.Z."and myself, as the Stace Schools have been lost sight of completely, and my friend is hurrying mo on to the millennium. He says I have been resorting to wit and facetioußneß3. Whether the accusation is merited or not, I feel compelled to exonerate -«X Y.Z." from anything of the kind. In describing mc as beiog on my last legs he has hit the nail on the head, and tor his further information I may say thab those members are becoming very tottery, probably caused by the pressure of wit, Sec, from above. After this modest admission I am certain "X.Y.Z." will entertain feelings of regret that such intelligence should have been so long misdirected. Witb reference to the millennium, and many other scriptural questions of a like simple nature, I plead guilty, in the first place, to acceptiog the teachings of the early Church, as set forth in the works of such writers as a Jerome, an Austin, or Augustine, in preference to the definitions of the profuse •■X.Y.Z." Secondly, I have never been blest by a perusal of that transcendent work " Newton on Prophecies," I have seen " Newton " on the heavenly bodies, but they were material bodies treated on, and, it may be, not by the sameauthor. However, Idon'b wish "X.Y.Z." to Bend along this convincing work, just at present, as I have noc got the six months to spare, as be suggests, for its study. Thanking you, sir, for the space so liberally accorded, 1 would like to present one question more for "X.Y.Z." to elucidate, and then I will say Requiescat in pace. To whom ia ho indebted for the transcription and preservation—during the long centuries of the so-called Dark Ages—of that Bible which be quotes as freely as "Cuddy Headrigg's Mother," and explains with such apparent satisfaction to himself ?—Yours, &c., A.B. MISTAKEN IDENTITY., TO SHE EDITOR OF THB PRESS. Sib, —Kindly allow mc to congratulate Mr T. E. Taylor on the latest accession to the ranks of his friends and supporters in the person of Mr Charles Lewis, who attended the meetiug held at Sydenham last evening.—Yours, Sec, Elector. [Our. correspondent is mistaken. Mr Lewis was in his own Committee room on the night in question from 7.30 to 10.30. — Ed. Press.