Show A i 4 PUtt If It the tho h government carries out Its liB throat to Institute criminal proceed proceedings ings inga against t the tho leaders of the tho th passive resistance r movement there Is III sure to he be trouble For those en engaged In this th crusade arc doing BO so on conscientious grounds and they thoy are supported by hy a I very vary tr strong sentiment ns fiB was proved 1 when a n quarter of a I mil million million million lion people gathered In Hyde park nod cheered tho the speakers who whit represented r nonconformists The Tho lh passive resistance ro stance movement Is I n a protest against t the education bill billot of ot 1 1 According to u a writer In the tho Outlook the nonconformists look upon this bill as tie an attempt to levy u II church rate mIll the guise of an education rate Thu Tho schools of the Church of ot are to be partially supported by and yet ot remain under denominational management To lo this they object They that If It the schools are lUll to be supported by com coin common common mon funds they hey must cease cenlle to tu be sic sec sectarian This truth should i need no ito argument The writer In the Outlook says In part American roofers should understand that In 10 eight thousand parishes In Eng land lani nod Wales aIes there Is only one ono pub lie lic elementary school available In each ench parish h anti that that school chool Is la under Church of England auspices and that all nil children In the parish are by law compelled to attend It II The therefore asserts that the new rate Is III worse Mall than the old The old chu went to keep up tho the parIsh church but at nt least lenel the nonconformist was InK not corn com compelled to attend the p church chulCh The now goes to support a n sectarian school anti and nonconformist children pie Ire compelled to attend this school chool To lu understand the Intensity of the fr opposition to this new system something must flutist be known of at atthe the social find and religious conditions which prevail today In many man parts of England The power r of the church In thousands thousand of ot parishes Is It almost The squire of ot the who probably owns most mJ t of a the tin land expects his hits tenants to be loyal to 10 the Church of England and multi multitudes tudes of laborers and small shopkeepers Ar are given to understand und that their very lOr livelihood depends on their conformity to 10 o th this will of ot the th and the tho par parton parron ton ron Tho The latter Is very usually now nowadays what Is I known ns nl high church The rho old ol priestly notion nallon of ot the thu ministry hits lias been b n revived with grunt BUCCOlA lIe He leM the name mime He lIe regards the as ns a I schismatic anila anti a heretic and the chill chil children dren of ut nonconformists nc oa j toper roper sub subjects fur for his Ills priestly Influence Even Een the thu Pilot 11 lot which Is Ie an Anglican weekly Paver paper of ot conspicuous moderation anti and Noat Influence due to Its Hs statesman statesmanlike like Ilk that If It I the Church of England Is ts to be ten thousand clergymen must be 1 turned out These men are Interested In the movement for tor reunion with wHit Home anti and their teaching Is III hardly from that of nome fetus The schools school which three these men manage are the most mOlt valuable able instrumentality they the for proselytizing young England Hacked Backed up tip therefore by the social Influence of or orthe the this they are able to mike make the of ef tIme the Independent non nonconformist nonconformist conformist almost Intolerable That explains fully why Vh the tIme non formula are up In arms anti and determined laid ined to suffer persecutIon rather than submit to the unjust requirements requirement of ot th this l IA law w Probably they the will win in Inthe inthe the lie end by that passive resistance r which Is III w so potent patent It all depends on whether the spirit that prompts prompt the op oppressive oppre pre ie enactment hi Is strong streng enough to keep up the tin flame Item of or persecution a suf aut ut long Ion time At Ill all hl events a abatti battle batUe Is II en ott on the lilt soil 1011 of af Great Unit Brit Britain ain aln am where lIere M as many Mn conflicts c hue have been beell fought successfully In la tM lb be past put for the principles of human liberty The out outcome tonic come will again In be w watched McI by the th world with much Interest |