We cannot disguise from ourselves, however, how much more difficult
this task has become owing to the mischievous and unfair attacks that have been made on Cowper-Temple teaching during the present controversy. How can Church- men be expected to interest themselves in securing sound and earnest =denominational teaching if those whom many of them regard as their leaders are denouncing Cowper-Temple teaching as contrary to the doctrines of the Church of England, and "subversive ultimately of Christianity itself" The propagation of that monstrous paradox is bound to do infinite harm to the cause of religious education, and to militate against the work of those who desire to impress on the country that it is the duty of the State to give all children not specially withdrawn from it by their parents instruction in the fundamentals of the Christian faith. In speaking thus we must be careful to exempt the Archbishop of Canterbury altogether from censure. He has most carefully refrained from any action likely to impair the efficiency of the religious education given by the State.
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