We are glad to see that the working-men of London
are beginning to take steps to secure themselves a substantial influence over the mew metropolitan School Board, which will consist, we believe, in all, of sixty members, and have anything but its due influence -unless it is fully trusted by the working-classes. There certainly -ought to be more than one working-class representative in every -district in London, and this will be easily secured if the voters -can only agree next month upon their nominees. Again, all Theses of religious opinion, both Church and Dissenting, ought to be represented with strict impartiality, nor should there be any limitation to one school in the Church. We shall hope to see High- .Church, and Low-Church, and Broad-Church clergymen, and Dissenting Ministers offering themselves as candidates for the new 'School Board, and offering themselves on the distinct pledge that -they will strive to prevent anything like a sectarian spirit in the religious instruction. If the Church clergymen would but begin, if such men as Canon Gregory (highest of the High) would but -come forward for Lambeth, and Mr. Antony Thorold (Evangelical), -of Curzon Chapel (who, when he was at St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, -built about the best new schools in London), for Westminster ; Mr. Fowle, or Mr. Llewellyn Davies (both Broad) for Marylebone ; Mr. Oakley (of St. Saviour's, Hoxton, and a High-Broad or Broad- High Churchman), for Finsbury ; and Mr. Rogers for the City, -and so on, we might be certain that the Dissenting Ministers 'would at once follow the example, and the "religious difficulty" 'be virtually solved for the metropolitan district.
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