§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education does any syllabus of Bible teaching state whether it is the seventh day or the first day of the week that was commanded to be kept holy; if not, can he say how the ordinance as to Sunday observance is explained to children under the Cowper-Temple system; and will he make accessible to Members of the House any syllabus of Bible teaching in which the abandonment of the observance of the commandment as to the Sabbath day and the keeping of Sunday as the day of rest and reverence is explained or justified.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Board of Education are not responsible for the religious 1426 instruction given in council or voluntary schools. I have no information in regard to the matter referred to in the hon. Member's Question beyond that, if any, which may be contained in the Parliamentary Return recently issued.