On Wednesday, at a general meeting of the Education . Settlement
Committee, Lord Cromer, who presided, won very hearty approval from his very distinguished audience by declaring that a noble attempt had recently been made to settle the question. "It was not possible to exaggerate the debt the country owed to that great, strong-minded, and able prelate, and that equally able and high-minded Nonconformist, Mr. Runciman." In the course of the proceedings a most admirable and most conciliatory speech was made 1,y Mr. Alfred Lyttelton. Another notable speech was that of the Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, a Baptist clergyman of great dis- tinction and influence in his Church. Finally, a resolution
was passed appointing an Executive Committee to collect information and to examine various plans and suggestions for a settlement. The Executive Committee includes various Anglican and Nonconformist clergymen of distinction, and also a considerable number of laymen. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the meeting, as also the most encouraging, was the determination it showed to reach a settlement on fair lines. Equally noticeable was the absence of anything in the nature of recriminations, or accusations that it was this or that man's or section's fault that the late attempt at a settlement had failed.
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