The second branch of my subject—the consideration of the proper parts of Scripture to be taught in schools—may for the present be narrowed down to an examination of the one scheme which is now seriously put forward. We are asked to authorise a particular text book of extracts from the Scriptures. We are told that the feuds of Christendom (which have always been a greater obstacle to the spread of Christianity than the attacks of its enemies) have at last been composed so far as this particular matter is concerned; and that Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and others agree in recommending a selection known as the Irish National Scripture Text Book, which may be put into the hands of teachers without the fear of stirring the fires of controversy.