Religion in the Schools: Addresses on Fundamental Christianity; Delivered in S. Margaret's, Westminster, During Lent 1906 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Religion in the Schools: Addresses on Fundamental Christianity; Delivered in S. Margaret's, Westminster, During Lent 1906

The schools, which have not been acquired from the denominations. Such are the main lines of the Bill as introduced by the Minister of Educa tion. It is, at this stage, impossible to foresee what transformation it may undergo in its pass age through Parliament, but I may be permitted to say that, if it preserves those main lines, it will provide in my judgment a working and substantially just arrangement, which the mem bers of the National Church might receive with a good conscience. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon, that the nature and extent of the religious division of the English people have been greatly exaggerated by persons of opposite parties, who are almost equally interested in creating and keeping alive in the public mind the fiction of many denominations sharply severed by intractable beliefs. The Roman Catholic and the anglo-catholic unite with the secularist in urging that equal treatment of all denominations, which is clearly consistent only with the secu larising of the schools. For there is a difference between the denominations. Roman and Angli.

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Excerpt from Religion in the Schools: Addresses on Fundamental Christianity; Delivered in S. Margaret's, Westminster, During Lent 1906

The addresses here printed were delivered in S. Margaret's, Westminster, on Saturday afternoons during Lent, and they were designed to assist those who heard them towards a just estimate of the issues at stake in the renewed controversy about the system of elementary education. Since they were delivered Mr. Birrell has introduced the Education Bill, which aspires to provide a final settlement of the protracted and embittered conflict as to the place (if any) which religion shall have in the curriculum of the State-schools.

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