LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE COUNTRY AND THE EDUCATION BILL.
[To VIZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I am surprised to read the letter of Mr. E. Burrows in your issue of September 20th, and am led to wonder who gave him authority to speak for the Wesleyan Methodist Con- nexion. He, no doubt, is a Wesleyan, but how he even knows what is the opinion of the general body of the Methodist people I am at a loss to guess. I am a Wesleyan of over sixty years' standing, and certainly have no " uncom. promising hostility" to the Education Bill, and I know that many other Wesleyans feel with me. I have read the Bill, and many of the hysterical and extravagant speeches which have been delivered in opposition to it, and notice Mr. Burrows's opinion, that Mr. Balfour designs to "destroy Dissent" (in which he wrongly includes Methodism), but I fail to see any ground for these denunciations or for such a charge. That an educational difficulty and injustice exists is clear, and I see no better way of meeting it than that proposed by Mr. Balfour.—I am, Sir, &o.,
AN OLD WESLEYAN METHODIST.
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