DENOMINATIONAL EDUCATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 35, 7 February 1876, Page 2

DENOMINATIONAL EDUCATION.

To THg Editor op thk 'Evening Mau,.' Sib — " Vox efc prseterea nihj^ " has . been r rather t hard ; on „ your friend/. Mgei^n « Zethar|^ deserved.^ Long, like'youf later corres- 5, pondent, I beat about the bush trying f-feor-discoYer^whafc Zetha*&-^cpnli*be. y driving at. . /Finally the solution flashed upon* me^suggested^.By^eferen/jies^ to amateur teachers, and the interfere encb "of clergy "of "the ChiirlE^bF^ffg^ land : withreducation. Bishop of Nelßon Kas, I hearj s consented to giv,e his services to the proprietress of Embley ; House scb/bol. . 3?his h is.- of fcourse.si. greafcj tbing'fbr' -ftiatf lady*/ ■** Csak* ; ifc %erWt^e f /style. and. arguipents of " Zethar'' seem ? to suggest, thai; -this * f norn de plume " is a veil which shelters some mature bufc unappVeciated r - virgin^ /who- 'desires' ■_ tM start a school, and whose chances ate:* ;injpred iby the j Bijrhpp's/ikindlyjfaid to Embley House? """ Zefchar" 'should Remember that no one amateur or pro*,fessipnal has. a vested, interest .in ; the education of the children of The interest of the public is that they should be as well taught as pospble/' wliether, by j profelsional o^ cleric orlayman; isof. smaiL: importance. The people of Nelson do 'tiot need " Zethar's " aid tb resist clerical, intrusion -or* aggression.-. , 'Bu,fc/ they; are' iiofc such fools as to rejeefcpthe * well-timed aid of, an highly f educated and disinterested ; nisinL because^ jie" happens to be a clergyman^ as. |*/ZjE3thiar ? '; appears to think they should;- ..rWhen " Zefchar '■"- can detect , ithything 1 "likoi proselytising ./under the '/disguise 'of : . teaching/ it will be ample/ time/ /fco raisbr that small, shrill, inarticulate, squeak, off Meanwhile let him or her ' R.1.P., rest in peace. — I am, &c, :5, :f . • - > . •* -'- / ' tJN/DSijroMtis-ATibirAL. „. P.S. — -I .believe your readers *wquld. as a rule prefer extracts from the A«o Zealand 1 Gazette, br-anecdbiEefr ib honor of{Siir !>.( YWhrnn from;,thei r'Waka, Maori, provided ttfey Were _io\. 'transl ' lated, or, the. litany which,, thrice, a . week, the Colonist scuds up/tothe!/ divine Julius,' to' these 'meditations of "Zethar." , -.-,.,_ -