We are compelled to go to press without learning the
result of the London School Board election, except in two of the school districts. In Southwark, which was, we believe, expected to show the deepest secularist bias, the School Board is divided, two members being Progressives, and two Moderates. In Westminster, four members are Moderates, and only one Progressive, and of the other elections we have as yet no news. We rather expect that the new School Board will be very much like the old, with rather a stronger infusion of members who make it a great object to keep the religious education sincere and effective. We only hope that there will be enough members of the moderate religious party to render any attempt to anticipate with young children a religious teaching appropriate only to the elder children, difficult or impossible.
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