ANGLICAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15728, 23 October 1916, Page 3

ANGLICAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

to kbrroß or <t TH* PBS6S." Sir, —In your report on above in tojy's "Press" Mr Perry warns people gainst the Roman Catholic Convent Schools- Ho adds that Catholics insist 'that education: was nothing without religion, and .yet Catholics would take . Anglicans and educate them without teaching them religion. That in Mr Perry's-opinion was 1 havo always understood that moat devout Anglicans 'feared Catholic Convent schools because of their proselytising methods.. Now,, in Mr Perry's opinion, yoa must .'fear, them beoause they_ don't proselytise or teach their religion to - those'who differ from them. Anyhow, shy don? t you think that if a nonCatholic" child attending a Catholic Convent school is not taught religion, is that not a feather in the Convent . teachers' caps, for respecting the child's 'religious' feelings. - Apparently if ' 'a non-Anglican child attended an Anglican, school that child would be taught the Anglican theology whether the child.or its parents wanted it or not. v, I am afraid Mt Porry scarcely appreciates how he appears to some of his Anglican confreres for his uncharitablo views. Ho does nob act the part of a Christian gentlemag, even though he - may.be" one at heart. borne of your readers prefer the Btrong waters of Catholicism, even if wrong, to the milk and water of Mr . Perry and his school of thought. Aiiy- ■ w»y, any stick to give Rome a crack, bat like tho boomerang, it has the awkward knack of rebounding, and I would remind Mr Perry that "Imitation is r the sineerest fonn of flattery."—Yours, etc.,. - READER. TO THE EDITOR 0* '"THE PRESS." iv; Sir, —As Bishop Julius has shown i- v Bach practical generosity in his offer to * „ Synod in furtherance of a cause he has ? Jnuch at heart, I venture to hope that ! ' he may reconsider his decision with referenco to the question of allowing tho young clorgymen and curates to go to ■ the war if they wish to do so. In ttsny country places people have to bo contented with one scrvico a month. ■Cannot we, in the towns, be satisfied at •heso times, with fewer services, than at present? The churchwardens would, Bo doubt, do all they could to help, and *e all know how much the women of /the churches would do in the way of Wsiting the sick and suffering, to take ]®e place of any man who was away .Spiting for truth and honour. They are'even ploughing to let the J farmer® Far bo it from me to think that any Particular man should go. That is his " s^? e6B > most certainly it is not mine, •_ bn't it docs seem a pity for the Bishop t° use his influence to restrain them. |k •*? ®y view it is not wise for the sake fr of tho country, the men themsolves. or v.; the Church. Even now we. sometimes X ■ 860 men conducting one service — t sorely a luxury iu these times —when one of them might be taking the services elsewhere to allow n younger man *o tako his place at tho front. . On •ome questions jt seems as if the Church wandering about in the Middle trying to believe that the people *Je thcro with it. We are told that ' "this "war will not bo won bv arms IJ»ne. M " Is jt likely to be won by keej>jßg men at home? Those who go may that, not on'y will the countrv " their services, but they may, I < Tt * rest assiirod that the Church 'Wlll'De strcngthc"ncd bv their example ,taking their share *in this great - —You re, etc., V"UX« ESTR AIX ED DECISION.' 20th, 19313\j to:thb editor ok "tub rnESs." f .a, jSir,-rPleasc lot mo reply to your "W.D.A.." nnd also to Synodsroan who fries "Cave Catholic Convents.' 1 & used to stand •> nest to mi

"W.D.A." -id "the English class, forty years ago; - and'l don't mind' admitting that he was usually top, and that playing with a straight bat interested me moro than the mood and tenses of verbs. "W.D.A." misses the spirit of my letter. I would like to hasten the time when the catastrophe of tho Tower ! of Babe] will be remedied, and I would like to ask what would be denominational teaching about that recorded in--1 eidont ? [ think I am right in con- ' tending for a languago nexus. What i is it that rouses our Celts or Boers or i tho Kingdomless Poles ? It is an attack ion their language. Roosevelt gets sat upon when he points to spelling absurdities. I believe ex-en a "repulsive [parody on language" would help, if it was made compulsory. What would there be to prevent it growing uo beautiful under the fatherly care of some Mas Muller? There would be a wave of enthusiasm towards the Anglican Church if they could, and did, divert their educational grant for the duration of the war, to teaching tho Germans their lesson. Now for my other point, which still bears on religious education- I happen for tho last thirty years to be inti-mately-acquainted with several Roman Catholic Convents, and I would like to dispel tho widespread Protestant idea that they are sort of prison-hotises. I have several Protestant friends who have had convent education, and tho only proselytising tendencies they had ,to combat were the contented lives and beautiful examples set them by the nuns. I believo the most lasting impression • we carry away from a school is the "spirit of the school," built up( largely by the living example of the teachers. —Yours, etc.. PETER TROLOVE. (We print the comments of our correspondents on the Rev. C. E. Perry's remarks, but we cannot allow this correspondence to go further from tho main question.—Ed. "Tho Press.")