We have given in detail in another column our views
on this subject, but will express here our satisfaction at the admirable letter on the subject contributed by Canon Hensley Henson to Friday's Times, in which he points out that the legitimate rights and influence of the clergy will be in no way injured, and expresses the hope that Anglicans "will hesitate before lending themselves to an attempt to destroy what is a real, and in my deliberate belief most salutary, concession." Personally
we have no fear in this matter. The clause could only be altered by an alliance of those Churchmen who dislike Colonel Kenyon-Slancy's amendment with the Opposition to wreck the Bill, and this is unthinkable. We can only say again that the legitimate influence of the clergy over religious education
will remain untouched, nay, will be strengthened, by the new interest given to the laity in the matter. Here is no weakness, but a new source of strength, for the National Church.
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