[TO THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIE,—I should like to thank you for your excellent article of last week on the controversy over religious education. I take the liberty of enclosing a copy of a resolution recently passed at the Easter vestry meeting in this parish.—I am,
Sir, &c., R. B. TOLLINTON. The Rectory, St. George, Bloomsbury, 19 Woburn Square, W.C.
"That this meeting of the Vestry of the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury, desires to record its conviction and its regret that no permanent and fair settlement of the question of religious educa- tion in elementary schools is to be found in the provisions of the Bill recently introduced by his Majesty's Government. The Vestry wishes further to express its opinion that the principle of the public appointment of managers and the abolition of religious tests for teachers should be accepted by all Churchmen, on con- dition that the Bill be so amended as to afford and secure facilities in all elementary schools for denominational instruction, during school hours, on two mornings in the week, such instruction to be given at the sole cost of the denominations by such teachers as are willing to give it and by other fit persons, and to be in addition to religious instruction of an undenominational type on the other available mornings of the week."
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