THE EDUCATION BILL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 89, 18 April 1906, Page 2

THE EDUCATION BILL.

RELIGIOUS EQUALITY VIOLATED

MASS MEETINGS PROPOSED

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] . (Received April 17, 9.37 p.m!) LONDON,'ApriI 17. Dr. Ingram, Bishop of London, in a letter to the RuraljDean, declares that it is intolerable that a purely ethical treatment of the Bible should be permitted in. schools on which the.Church spent""forty millions in order to edur cate the children according tp the tenets of the Church of England. The Education Bill violates the first principles of religious equality, and extended facilities were practically useless. He proposes -that a series of mass meetings should be held to protest against the measure.