It is satisfactory to be able to note that efforts
are being made throughout the country, irrespective of political opinions, to put the Education Act in operation at an early date. The succession of circulars issued by the Board of Education is having a good effect. It is interesting to read that the British and Foreign School Society is prepared to associate itself with the work of administering the Act. The Wesleyan Conference, moreover, while advocating the use of "every legitimate means to secure an early amendment" of the measure, advises Methodists "to use every effort" to secure representation upon the various educational authorities and to work the Act. There is, there- fore, little probability that the wild views recently expressed by Dr. Clifford and Mr. Lloyd-George will influence Noncon- formist policy in the matter. We hope that the clergy at large will follow the advice contained in the Bishop of Rochester's recent diocesan letter on the subject: "Welcome cordially the closer co-operation of the laity."
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