"I will not sacrifice," says the Bishop, "on the altar
of my denominational doctrine, however sacred and sub- lime to me, the spiritual hope of the nation and the religious training of hosts of children, whose only oppor- tunity of learning of God and their own Divine origin and destiny is in the day school. To do otherwise is, in my judgment, not only a great national betrayal, but moral and spiritual infanticide on a stupendous scale." Here is the real crux of the problem. If the denominations insist on banishing non-denomi- nationalism, they •must inevitably deprive a vast number of children of the opportunity of receiving religious education as part of their daily schooling. If, on the other hand, the denominations agree to non-denominational instruction in all schools, we can secure religious instruction in the fundamental truths of Christianity for the whole nation. We wish we had space to notice this admirable article at greater length, but for the moment all we can do is to put up a finger-post to it. We would ask those of our readers who are no/ occupying their minds with the question of religious education to read the article carefully before they come to the conclusion that there is no way out of the education puzzle except that demanded by the denominational extremists on the one hand, or by the advocates of the secularisation of the schools on the other.
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