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37 reduced under the same category by lowering the Church into a Sect.

I see that Mr. Rogers, the author of the scheme, writes as follows in a letter published in the Times, Monday, January 29, 1866.

It appears, then, to be as I expected; "preparation for the industrial and commercial work of life" as carried on in this school is to be carried on, so far as the school is concerned, wholly without religious teaching properly so called. Mr. Rogers says, "distinctive religious teaching,^* meaning, I suppose, that there may be indistinctive religious teaching in the school. What this may be I do not profess to understand, and I should like to haev [sic] Mr. Rogers under examination for ten minutes about it. But there is another thing about which Mr. Rogers says nothing. What about prayers morning and evening in the school? Are there to be any prayers, or are the scholars to be prepared for the industrial and commercial work of life in a place which has no prayers? If any prayers, I suppose they are to be on the indistinctive principle. The scholars of every school must be under discipline: it is implied in the idea of a school;