Religion in the Schools

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Excerpt from Religion in the Schools: Addresses on Fundamental Christianity, Delivered in S. Margaret's, Westminster, During Lent 1906The schools, which have not been acquired from the denominations. Such are the main lines of the Bill as introduced by the Minister of Educa tion. It is, at this stage, impossible to foresee what transformation it may undergo in its pass age through Parliament, but I may be permitted to say that, if it preserves those main lines, it will provide in my judgment a working and substantially just arrangement, which the mem bers of the National Church might receive with a good conscience. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon, that the nature and extent of the religious division of the English people have been greatly exaggerated by persons of opposite parties, who are almost equally interested in creating and keeping alive in the public mind the fiction of many denominations sharply severed by intractable beliefs. The Roman Catholic and the anglo-catholic unite with the secularist in urging that equal treatment of all denominations, which is clearly consistent only with the secu larising of the schools. For there is a difference between the denominations. Roman and Angli.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.