The Archbishop in the later part of his speech took
the case of Huddersfield to show that it was possible for a local authority to do away with religious education. The rules of the local authority there set forth that "in the schools
Provided by the Council no religious teaching shall be given," and that "religious observances shall last fifteen minutes and consist of the reading by the teacher of verses from the Bible, without comment, followed by a hymn." There were twenty- one or twenty-two schools in Huddersfield, with about a hundred and twenty teachers, who on the appointed day when this Bill becomes operative would be absolutely debarred from giving any religious teaching. Lord Crewe, however, called attention to Sub-Section 5 in Clause II. to show that the Huddersfield rule would not operate in the transferred Pro- vided schools. The guarantees which the Archbishop out- lined as necessary to make the Bill one which Churchmen could vote for, even though they disagreed with its general principle, have been noticed by us elsewhere.
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