We have dealt elsewhere with some aspects of the problem
of religious education, but must notice here the remarkable letter contributed by Canon Garratt to the Times of Friday. Canon Garrett points out that the undenominational religious education which Lord Hugh Cecil and those who support him condemn as not merely inadequate, but as incompatible with the teachings of the Church, is, in fact, " the instruction of a child not yet come to years of discretion which the Church herself enjoins." In the Baptismal Service there are two ex- hortations to godfathers and godmothers. In the first they are charged "to provide that the child may learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten. Commandments, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health." Here are the subjects of undenominational teaching, and "those unwritten lessons by precept and example which every teacher worthy of the name scatters around him."
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