We have dealt with the main considerations that arise from
the Bill elsewhere, and will only say here that though there are many aspects in which the Bill is unsatisfactory, and though we should have preferred, had it been possible, to have maintained the settlement of 1902, with such modifications as would have made it more acceptable to Nonconformists, we are greatly relieved by the fact that the Bill enacts that in all schools provided by public money the funda- mental truths of Christianity as set forth in the Bible may be taught daily. Religious teaching is secured as part of the daily instruction for the children of all parents who do not specifically object to it. Secularisation is thus absolutely rejected. At a time when religious extremists are joining hands with those who consider that the State is rightly and necessarily a Godless institution, that is something to be devoutly thankful for.
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