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Claims of the Bible. 107 established all over the kingdom and supported by public funds. Lord Eldou says that "in these schools care is taken to educate youth in the Christ- ian Religion, and in all of them the New Testament is taught both in Latin and Greek."* And in 1842, Vice Chancellor Bruce affirms in an important decision the following position: "Courts of equity in this country will not sanction any system of education in which religion is not included."* To the Scotch system it is only necessary to refer. The very prominent place it has given religious instruction is well known. The experience of cen- turies has proven the wisdom of the arrangement* " The instruction of youth in the principles of religion, was made a primary object of the paroch- ial schools, "f The defense and confirmation of the catholic faith that the religion Christian might flourish was a prominent end with which the colleges at St. Andrews were founded. At the Reformation the theology of these colleges became protestant; yet religious instruction occupied no lower position after, than before that era. In the act of Parliament establishing the university of Edinburgh, it is declared to be " one colledge of humane letteris and toungis, of philosophic, theolo-

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