The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, October 1884, No. 1Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
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The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, October 1884, No. 1
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
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Then, I think of secular and sacred culture, which there has been
quite too much disposition in our day to separate, and which
are, in my opinion, so happily combined in our studies. Here I
am reminded of the recent great Sunday-school meeting at Exeter
Hall, which I had the privilege of addressing, where the chair
was occupied by the Hon. A. J. Mundella, who manages with such
ability and energy the educational department of the government.
Mr. Mundella, who has risen from a very humble position, had
the foundation of his education laid in the Sunday-school, and
a night school connected with it, and when very young, received
much stimulus and encouragement by the presentation of a Bible
for proficiency in his Sunday-school lessons. He does not forget
his obligation, and his speech that evening from the chair was
eminently hearty and satisfactory. I am reminded, also, in the
same connection, of an important meeting held recently in the
Jerusalem Chamber, a private meeting, from which reporters were
excluded, and which, therefore, I must not report to you further
than to say that it was a representative gathering of leading
men of all denominations, including some distinguished Roman
Catholics, (one of whom, by the by, made the finest speech of
the evening), to consider the question whether it was possible
under a system of State Education in a country like England
satisfactorily to combine secular and religious instruction.
And this suggests another of our pleasing combinations at
Chautauqua, the drawing together, not only in fraternal
feeling, but also in important work, of Christians of different
denominations. I need not say that the current of the times
still sets in the same direction. The meeting in the Jerusalem
Chamber, above referred to, is an illustration of it; and as a
farther indication I may refer to the fact that recently the
rector of St. Paul’s, Cheswick, after due announcement, preached
and conducted divine service for Mr. McLeod, successor to Dr.
Cumming, of Crown Court. He did it with the full knowledge that
it might get him into trouble; but he was willing to have the
question tested at his expense. Considerable notice has been
taken of it in various ways, but no one has ventured to make any
complaint.
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