THE SYNOD AND SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 574, 31 July 1909, Page 10

THE SYNOD AND SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Sir,—Your,, correspondent "Phylax" is oharmingly ingenuous in -challenging my statistics! He does not condescend to correct thorn-; he simply'contents himself with l saying that my, figures are wrong, and that I am telling -fibs.,. Well,. I am prepared .to admit that the statistics in the, now Year Book (which I- bad not seen when I wrote you last) show an- improvement—a- considerable improvement of 110 less thaji 5 per ccnt, so far as the numbor of Anglican criminals is concerned. The number with which theAnglican Church is -is . still nearly double' that with which the other Protestant denominations are credited, and so, presumably, "Phylax" did. not think it would very materially improve matters for, his Church if he submitted the recently-published statistics. ; "Phylax" seems to-think that I have a quarrel with Christianity, and_ that I am opposed to religious instruction in echoolt. So u mistaken. I : aocegt tho etido of Jesus,

and have 110 objcctioii whatever to tho teaching of. Hid liiblo in eclmols, provided it is undertaken by UlO clergy or teachers accredited,- and liaid by the Churches anxious to liavo it taught in school. ; As for Sir Robert Stout, lib raado (so far as I knolv) 110 refercnco whatever to tho Anglican Church or to Anglican schools. He was thinking, it would seem, only of primary education, and I am not awaro that Anglicans run primary schools. Nothing can be .gained by speaking or writing disparagingly of Sir Robert in his absence. We can surely 'possess our souls in patienco" until his return. I feel confident that lie will ho able to furnish tangiblo evidence, as to'the statement attributed to him as to the" number of criminals, State and Church educated respectivelyl am, • OtC " MODERNIST. July 28.