The Archbishop of Canterbury's reply, though guarded, showed that the
chief representative of the Church of England is willing to further every honest effort to arrive at a settle- ment on national lines of the education controversy. The most important passage in his speech was the following "I desire to see a settlement on large and generous lines all round. That the Chun* must lose largely by any settlement on the lines of this Bill, even as modified, is inevitable or I should rather say that the large interests for which the Church has striven must be to some extent affected if the Bill passes eren in its amended form. But I am prepared to put up with a good deal and accommodate a great many objections and difficulties rather than that this controversy should go on. Whether that settlement is practicable or not rests elsewhere than here, but that it may be brought about is my earnest and anxious wish."
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