England’s Education Bill

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

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England’s Education Bill

The Education Bill, which is now stirring all England, is fast progressing to its passage. This measure, which is one of the unwholesome results of a union of Church and State, is said to have been drawn up by a Church of England bishop, Edward S. Talbot, bishop of Rochester. He stands for the aggressive party in the Anglican church, which desires to make the State religion the prominent thing in the kingdom. The bill, if passed, will go into operation in April next, but there will be no opportunity until the following October for the non-conformists to refuse to pay the taxes and thus challenge the local authorities to sell their household furniture and turn them out of their homes. It is just such a predicament as this that the ideas of the National Reformers, if carried out, would bring to pass in this country. As a State church element is behind this movement in England, so they would have the church of their favor riding rough shod over the sensibilities and liberties of the people here. The true church of Christ asks no such questionable favors of any government.