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[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIE. -- HOTT would Mr.

W. Watson's plan work ? Suppose a parish like this,—four miles long; that little b, son of Baptist B, and B2, lives at the N. end, the only school a National school at the centre, and the nearest Baptist Sunday-school at the S. end. Is b to walk every winter morning four miles to his parents' tabernacle for his denominational lesson, and then two miles back to the National school for his three R.'s? Is this the rich and generous Church of England's idea of veligions equality ? I do wish, Mr. Editor, you could forget Home-rule for an hour and ask yourself quietly which is the higher ideal, national or denominational religions education.- lt

am, Sir, &c., Ricers Lodge, Harpenden, S. 0, Herts. T. WILSON.