The Wesleyan Congress on Education, which met last week, while
it decided on a very progressive policy in relation to the discouragement for the future of denominational schools, adopted frankly the Government policy of unsectarian religious education to be given by the masters of School-Board Schools, and not by any one but the masters. We do not know what Mr. Melly meant by saying, if he did say, at Hanley on Tuesday, that the Nonconformists had, with great deliberation, " entered on a very serious course, and that at length the Wesleyans, after prayer and much thoughtful debate, had determined to throw in their lot with their brethren." If he had read the resolutions of the Wesleyan Congress, he would have known how very materially they diverge from the Nonconformists of the Birmingham League and Manchester Conference.
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