22 OCTOBER 1910, Page 3

The Bishop of Carlisle replies very effectively in last Saturday's

Times to Mr. D. C. Lathbury's appeal to Church- men on behalf of secularism. The Bishop contends that this solution would cut off the only chance of instruction in the elementary truths of the Christian religion from more than half the children in our elementary schools. We desire to endorse most heartily the Bishop's concluding appeal to all Christians, " for the sake of Christ and the children," to resist every plea, however ably and temperately urged, for the elimination of instruction in the Christian Gospel from the curriculum of our elementary schools.