TO THE .EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1
SIR,—If no more worthy representative of the National Educa- tion League claims your attention, will you allow me to say a word on the object of the League ? If that object were to exclude religious worship and religious instruction, I, for one, should have no sympathy with the movement. But I have ascertained, from those who are competent to speak with authority, that by " unsectarian " the League does not mean "non-religious," or "secular ;" at all events, they have not yet given that meaning to the word, and if, at the approaching meeting, the League should resolve on substituting " secular " for " unsectarian," such a reso- lution would have the effect of alienating all those who, like myself, distinguish between " unseetarian " and "non-religious."
May I add, that an experience of four years as a teacher, and seven as a pupil in a school where Churchmen, Baptists, Indepen- dents, and Protestant Nonconformists of every kind join in the same prayers, and receive the same religious instruction, has con- vinced me that a school may be " uusectarian " without being
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