The nominations for the London School Board Elections have been
made this week, though it is hoped that on Tuesday a good many withdrawals may be announced so as to attenuate the waste of competitive energy. The elections, when they come off, nearly three weeks hence (on November 22nd), will simply decide whether average parents do or do not want their children to be taught those views of Christianity in which the Anglican Church and the greater number of Dissenters agree. The Progressives wish to let the school. masters and schoolmistresses "spend everybody's money in teaching nobody's religion," as Mr. Diggle, the Chairman of the School Board, epigrammatically puts it, while the followers of Mr. Diggle wish to insist that teachers who cannot agree in teaching the prevailing views of the nature and work of Christ should give up the religious lesson into other hands. We shall soon know what the parents of London children really wish their children to learn. We believe it will prove to be the higher notion of Christ's nature and work. At all events, it is certain that the attempt to represent the majority on the present School Board as being indifferent to the thoroughness of the secular teaching so long as the religious teaching is orthodox, is a grave and most unworthy imputation on their educational theory and practice.
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