Later on, the Bishop of Hereford moved an amend- ment
providing that where, in any rural parish in which there is only one elementary school, the parents of a reasonable number of children demand special facilities for religious instruction, such facilities shall be afforded. This amendment, which was agreed to without a division, seems to us an admirable one. Needless to tray, it can be used quite as much by Nonconformists as by Church- people. In spite of the somewhat excitable and angry com- ments of the Government Press in regard to the action of the Lords this week, it seems to us to have been, on the whole, moderate and sensible. If the Government will only stand up against the extremists in their party, the Bill may yet emerge as a fairly sound national settlement of the education question.
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