"LOVE ONE ANITHER."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6003, 12 February 1881, Page 5

"LOVE ONE ANITHER."

TO THE EDITOR. ; Su:, —In reply to ''Cosmopolitan's" very friendly letter, will you kindly allow me to say in an equally friendly spirit that a man may be a new-comer and yet bring with him some experience of matters which have agitated the Old Country quite as much as the ( New. Without wishing to talk unduly of oneself, I may say in connection with this, that I have been actively engaged in the education question at home, ever since the first introduction of Mr. Forster's Bill, and that I have been for some years a member of a School Board in one of the largest districts in the suburbs of London. I can, , too, show " Cosmopolitan" a document which I received 011 resigning my seat on the Board (consequent on my leaving England), ! which will, I think, convince him that we had no denominational differences whatever, as well as that denominationalism had had, and could have, no place. Permit me now to correct two mis-statements, doubtless unintentional, in rexumi of Mr. Ewington's letter. The trial has been made under the present Act by Dr. Maunsell and Messrs. Broe, Pamciman, and Nelson, and utterly failed. The conduct of Sundayschools has not been almost abandoned to laymen—at all events, in the two city parishes. There the clergy are present in both morning and afternoon school, excepting a portion of one Sunday afternoon monthly, when there are baptisms. Besides this, teachers' meetings, or classes, for the preparation of the lessons to be imparted, are regularly held by the clergy. As to the (lay-scliool, I may just add that, certain obstacles which temporarily presented themselves to the carrying on of a projected system of Scripture Lessons having been removed, plans were made at the end of last year for this work being done, and it will accordingly be proceeded with, as has always been intended. The same is the case with another school to which the clergy have the privilege of access.—l am, &c., W.M. TEBBS. St. Matthew's Parsonage, February 9, ISSO.