Excerpt from The Conscience Clause, Can It Be Justified?: A Letter to the Rev. John Oakley, M.A., In Reply to His Pamphlet "the Conscience Clause" &C., &C., &C The meaning of the Conscience Clause, we hear it said, is not clear. No one can accuse your pages of ambiguity. There, at all events, the true purport of it is not disguised. A great principle, I agree with you, is at stake, which, as you truly say, ap plies as much or as little to managing as to building to grants for the support of a school as to those for its first foundation; and it is this. The Conscience Clause, whether in its old or revised form, enacts that the managers of a church-school must exempt the children of Dis senters, if the parents desire it, from instruction in the doctrine or formularies of the Church. We need not ask Mr. Lingen, nor any one else, to explain the meaning of the Clause. Clearly, if one child may claim to be exempted from the doctrine and the formularies of the Church, so may all. Clearly, if parent A may take exception to other parts of the Catechism, so may parent B to the Apostles' Creed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.