LTO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In face of the
manifesto published in the Times from the extremists of the High Church party and Dean Wace to the clergy, it becomee a serious question for the moderate lay folk in the English Church to know what they should do at this crisis of the education question. Their inarticulateness would be pathetic if it were not so grave. There are thousands of English Church men and women who are weary of theo- logical strife, and desire nothing so much as to support and secure the wise compromise for which the Archbishop is working. They see what the extremists apparently do not see,—that the question now is, not whether Church teaching shall dominate our schools, but whether there shall be Christian teaching at all. You, Sir, have often in the past championed wise courses. Can you not now suggest some way in which the silent but overwhelming body of moderate lay men and women may give effect to their wishes ?—I am,
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