We see with pleasure that the Education Department have censured
the managers of a school at Worleston, in Cheshire, for making a short Church service part of the religious in- struction given to the children of an elementary school. The Department intimate that unless this rule be rescinded, and Nonconformist children readmitted to the school without being required to attend this Church service, all annual grants will be withdrawn from the school in question. The Rector of Worles- ton, who is said by one of the Nonconformists to teach that all who attend the Wesleyan chapel will "go to hell," must be one of the most ill-judged proselytisers in the United Kingdom. If he has made any such assertion, he is certainly an heretical, and not an orthodox Anglican, in his belief. But even if that assertion be fabulous, is it possible to imagine sillier prosely- tising tactics than an attempt to override the conscience-clause, and drive Wesleyans to Church against their will P If this class of clergymen were not as rare as they are mischievous, the Church Establishment would hardly survive another Parliament.
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