THE BIBLE WITHOUT NOTE OR COMMENT.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—Most of your correspondents seem to forget that true reli- gious teaching can be given only by truly religious people, and ought to be attempted by none other.
The reading of the Bible, with or without comment, is not, in itself, religious teaching. If the teacher be heartily (not profes- sionally) pious, there must be religious teaching in his whole life and influence through the school. Why can we not all be content with ensuring a thoroughly good and sound secular education in our elementary schools ; and urging most strongly upon all our Churches that the duty of providing religious education for the children rests upon them, and can be performed by them alone ?— [For the very simple reason that those who go to our Churches are not those who need religious teaching most, and are hardly half our people.—En. Spectator.)
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