6 SEPTEMBER 1902, Page 14

NONCONFORMISTS AND EDUCATION.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECIATOR.1 SIE,—The following extract from a letter written by the Rev. J. W. Roxburgh, priest in charge of Umtali, Rhodesia, speaks for itself:— "We have no religions educational question here, because every minister of any denomination has the right to teach the children

of his church folk in any and every school which is in receipt of any Government aid whatever. At Buluwayo the Jewish Rabbi teaches in our Church schools once a week. Here I go twice a week to teach my Sunday-school children in the American Methodist school (the only one in the place). This method, instead of breeding bitterness, only tends to increase goodwill."

The Vicarage, Gargrave in Craven, Yorkshire.