THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD'S CIRCULAR. [To THE Emma or ran
"Srsorsron:] SIR,—Are you correct in describing the circular of the London School Board, in the Spectator of March 24th, as exactly embodying the religious teaching given in 90 per cent. of the schools, and as teaching the Christian religion as under- stood by the mass of orthodox Christians ? I trust not, for it teaches most undoubted and dangerous heresy. It teaches distinctly the belief in three Gods, without any mention what- ever of Persons, united in one God. Orthodox theologians have ever been most eager and anxious to insist on the essential unity of the Godhead, which is expressly taught by the Old Dispensation, and emphatically endorsed by the New ; yet the circular of Mr. Athelstan Riley and Canon Bristow contradicts Monotheism altogether, and justifies the Unitarian contention that, in the words of Burns,-
" Yane and twa's three," and that the inevitable tendency of the popular theology is towards Tritheism, naked and unashamed.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A COUNTRY MOUSE.
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