Education Bill.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXV, Issue 3944, 24 November 1908, Page 3

Education Bill.

London, November 2

Many additional bishops have protested 'to the Dean of Canterbury against the action of Lord Hugh Cecil and Lord Halifax, president of the Church Union, in issuing a circular letter to the clergy on the Education Bill compromise, on the ground that it was intended to wreck the Primate's negotiations with the Education Department, and also on account of irregularity. The Bishop of Manchester insists that the Nonconformists have gained every principle which they contended for under the education compromise. There had been no such malversation of church property since the Reformation. The Bill will cause a

bitter and protracted war in the villages, and it is probable some schools will not be transferred without physical force. The net result is the church's profound humiliation. Dr. Clifford's Bill was a solid gain to the educational work of the nation. Archbishop Bourne expresses the hope to find the Bill the foundation of peaceful settlement. Rev. J. C. Lidgett, President of the Wesleyan Conference, declared that so long as the right of entry and the right of assistant teachers to give denominational instruction is safeguarded by adequate regulations, the settlement of the education question is not certainly a breach ot Nonconformist principles.

Sir J. H. Kennaway, M.l',, states that nine-tenths of the Anglican laity strongly support the Archbishop of Waterburv and Dr. Runciman.