The Rev. Dr. Fairburn in the "Daily News" on January 11th, 1907:—

"I do believe that the grasp of any Church or clergy round the throat of the State is, in the highest degree, dangerous. If, therefore, we are faced by a multitude of men who threaten to lend our schools into ecclesiastical controversies. I, for my part, would see no option save adopting "the secular solution." The secular may be non-ecclesiastical; but it is not, and need not be, anti-religious. The State is, to me, a body little competent to legislate in religion, lt may be more competent than any known Church: but this is a small matter compared with the awful impertinence of those who plead for intervention by the State between the man and his conscience, or the con science and its God."