DENOMINATIONAL EDUCATION.
[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR:]
have been greatly interested in your articles on the question of elementary schools and religions instruction, and the grievances of Nonconformists as regards voluntary schools, and I cannot help thinking that a scheme I beard the Bishop of Newcastle (now Chichester) describe once at an education meeting would be a very fair solution of the diffi- culty, if all parties were large-minded enough to agree to it. He said that in Newcastle the Church and all other religions bodies sent representatives to form a committee for under- taking the religious education of all the children in their elementary schools ; that they kept a register of the parents' names and religions, and each representative was responsible for the children of parents belonging to his Church, and that in the religious instruction hoar they each sent a teacher who held classes at the same time in the different class-rooms for their own followers, so that all were equally represented, and no children were allowed to miss regular religious teaching approved by their parents.—I am, Sir, &c., " MATER."
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