CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Sue,—The letters on this subject have been most
helpful, but I would suggest that there is a danger of the Church overlooking its own teach. hag function. After all, Christian education can only be given by those who profess and call themselves Christians. Speaking as an old school.. master I would like to add that if we are going to wait until we hare sufficient competent teachers in our day schools who come under that category, we shall miss the tide, and thes.generation that is growing Up round about us will be semi-pagan, to say the lehst.
The Christian Churches have in their own hands the solution to the problem. If they will fearlessly face the revitalising and improve- ment of their Sunday Schools and strain every effort to bring into the Sunday School world the young folks and make provision for their ag round life, we can within the present generation go a long way to Christianise our England. By all means let our Church leaders can for reforms in the religious teaching given in the day schools, but let us recognise that if the Churches are to have the right to demand thee reforms they must demonstrate their concern by doing more for their own Sunday Schools. That these schools should he understaffed and ill-equipped in a multitude of instances is a tragedy.—Yours, Stc., RODERT J. DENH.OLNI General Secretary. The National Sunday School Ulm 56 Old Bailey, London, E C-4._
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