MR CARNELL'S MOTION BE RELIGIOUS CLASSES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3771, 16 August 1883, Page 3

MR CARNELL'S MOTION BE RELIGIOUS CLASSES.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —By your report I tun made to advocate Freethought principles with which Ihavc no sympathy, although much respecting the mover. By inserting the word " morality " where it is I am made to imply that, while the Freethinkers would teach morality, the present religious instructors do not. It was another speaker used the word, not me. I said "If the parents of Freethought principles wished to have a class on the same terms as the others I could not_ in justice vote against it." I voted against the application of the Freethought Association just us I should against any other not relating to children attending the school. The Musical Society is an obvious exception, besides being of itself a class gratis for taking up the work of education of the children began by the teachers, and its principles are in accord with every section of the community of whatever class or creed. —I am. &c. W. A. Sim-LY. [Our report certainly did not make Mr Shiinly appear us an advocate of Freethought, and we fail also to see that the remarks ascribed to him imply '' that while Freethought would teach morality the present religious instructors do not." —Ed. D.T.]