"Vie 6pectator," jfebruarp 9tb, 1850
A MEETING of the friends of National Education was held at Willis's Rooms on Thursday . . . Archdeacon Manning opened with prayer. Mr. G. A. Denison said that "all education flowed from and necessarily depended upon the doctrine. of regeneration in baptism—that doctrine which had so monstrously been of late made the subject of appeal to a court not necessarily composed of Christians." [The Gorham judgement.] They would have no legislating for the Church by the Com- mittee of Education ; no Minister of Public Instruction in England, or, more dangerous, the office without the name ; r.o Godless Colleges: the seed might be sown, but it should be crushed ere it grew to a plant. The Reverend W. Sewell denounced the system of education apart from the dogmatical teaching of the Church, as ripe with the seeds of anarchy : it inevitably destroyed veneration for the Creator, love for the parent, respect for the teacher, and obedience to the state. Resolutions were passed which characterised the Committee of Council on Education as an incipient Legislative Board of Public Instruction ; denounced the aggressions of that body, and affirmed the necessity of an appeal to Parliament for a removal of the impediments which preclude many Church schools from receiving the public money voted fOr education.
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