Mr. Oakley, in another column, upbraids us with the condi-
tion on which we insisted last week, that in denomina- tional schools left to the control of their old managers, those managers must still provide a certain proportion of the local funds, as the price of continuing to manage, and he calls the condition 4' mercantile" in its spirit. This is a complete misapprehension -of our meaning. Pecuniary effort and sacrifice are a teat of hearty interest. What is to secure that the school will continue to have good and efficient 'tanagers, if those who elect the managers are to give no earnest of their deep interest in the school? It is to our apprehension clear that you must either impose a public duty on public conditions, the efficient fulfilment of which there is a large public to watch, or if you leave to private persons the tight of discharging this duty, you must at least take
guarantees for the existence of private interests sufficiently keen to dispense with the need for public securities.
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