Lord Russell cannot be happy at Cannes without letting fly
at the Government, and the last missiles with which he has chosen to shell their Education policy are the Conscience-clause and the Lord's Prayer. He brands the Conscience-clause as an inven- tion of the enemies of religious liberty, maintaining that it was devised in order to evade the demand for unsectarian religious teaching,—in order to force the Dissenters to choose between secular teaching without religion, and religious teaching without protection to their own particular creed. As the scheme of assisting denominational education by Government grants was of Lord Russell's own devising, and grew up into health and strength when he was Prime Minister, this missile of Lord Russell's is of the nature of the boomerang,—it returns upon himself.
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