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him will have to regard the Bishop as his spiritual leader, whose voice in directing his work is to him as the voice of God;" (the italics are my own). A glance at Dr. Mylne's letter will convince anyone that this statement is quite unwarranted, the Bishop is not even alluding to "each parson under him," he is simply speaking of those who shall voluntarily offer themselves for the work of the community which he hopes to establish as soon as possible at Bombay, to these and these alone apply the words where he says "he will regard his Bishop as his spiritual leader," &c. The explanation of these words has, as I venture to think, been most satisfactorily given by the Bishop himself and the Warden of Keble, so that it is needless to repeat it here, but may I be allowed in conclusion to say, that if the Catholicism of the English Church is to be preserved at all, will it not largely be through the influence of such truly Catholic-minded Bishops as he who has just taken leave of England for that mighty work in India? Will it not be, under God's blessing, through those men who, like this Bishop-0 si sic omnes!-shrink not from looking first principles in the face, and instead of ruthlessly rejecting them, boldly accept them? I trust to your courtesy, Sir, to insert this, that the erroneous impression conveyed through your late paragraph may be removed. W. CARTER.

Ember Saturday, St. Edmund's College, Sarum.

EVIDENCE FOR THE EASTWARD POSITION. SIR,-In reading "Maxwell Lyte's History of Eton College " I came upon the following passage, which would appear to be valuable evidence in favour of the Eastward Position in celebrating the Eucharist, and which might well be used in pleading the cause of the Clergy who are prosecuted for this "offence" before" His Holiness" of Penzance. I. therefore, send it for insertion in your next number. The passage I refer to is this:-[In the reign of Protestant Elizabeth.] “One of the Fellows (of King's College), John Wulward, narrowly escaped being deprived of his Fellowship at King's for refusing to celebrate the Holy Communion with his face turned towards the East."

From the refusal to do so, it would appear that his (the North End) position was exceptional, and that the general practice was to stand facing Eastward. (I enclose my card.) A MAGISTRATE. Pangbourne, July 10, 1876.

TO CHURCHMEN.

SIR,-It may not be inopportune to indicate to your readers, clerical or lay, that the only church here in which the Blessed Sacrament is celebrated in the morning is St. Ninian's Cathedral (head of Atholestreet). The services are:-On Sundays and Festivals, 8 a.m.; on all Thursdays, 7.45 a.m.

May I simultaneously acquaint you that, in consequence of his Lordship's stupid disapproval of the recent proceedings at Cumbrae, the Bishop of St. Andrew's has been called on by our Church organ either to apologise, or to vacate our Episcopate. In the interests of the Scottish Church and self-respect, the request, it is hoped, may be acceded to, but Protestantism is occasionally uastily obtuse. I sometimes think our ideas of general arithmetic are faulty.

Perth, N.B., June 15, 1867.

K. BRUCE STUART.

P.S.-Is it true that the Decalogue, in good society, is considered de trôt?

SIR,-1 observe in your high-principled and admirably-conducted paper of to-day, in a letter by Mr. K. Bruce Stuart, a reference to "the pious liegemen of the incumbent, impeccable Christian, whose watchword is What was always, everywhere, and by all received."" May I ask for some elucidation of these words? Without further help, I am unable even to get so far as to realize what is intended by "an incumbent Christian." DISCIPULUS. June 7, 1876.

OXFORD NOTES.

(From our Correspondent.)

OXFORD, Monday night. I must bespeak your indulgence, Mr. Editor, if these "Notes" are somewhat lacking in clearness: it is so difficult to write at "Commem." time, when your people are "up." Oxford is at its very gayest, being full of visitors for the Commemoration. Queen's College gave a delightful concert on Friday evening. On Sunday the Bishop of Oxford preached the Commemoration Sermon at St. Mary's in the morning. The subject of his sermon was the "Danger of Riches." In the afternoon the Master of Balliol (Mr. Jowett) preached a very eloquent and, I am bound to admit, admirable sermon on the divisions amongst Christians.

The "Show" in the Broad Walk in the evening was more orderly than ever, and was stronger also in the Gown element than in any recent years. This is a change for the better; a few years ago scarcely a gown was to be seen.

To-day Schumann's "Paradise and the Peri" has been performed by the Philharmonic Society in the Sheldonian Theatre, and the usual procession of boats took place this afternoon. The Wadham College Concert and the University Ball are being held to-night.

In addition to the honorary degrees to be conferred at the Encænia on Wednesday, Prince Leopold is to receive from the Vice-Chancellor his diploma of the degree of D.C.L. Rumours are current that on Wednesday Oxford is to welcome the Prince of Wales. The reception which, with her time-honoured loyalty, Oxford will accord to him, will not fall short of its wonted heartiness.

The designs for the new schools were accepted on Thursday last. I venture to hope that their erection may be a turning-point in the history of Art in England-at least, that the world-renowned High-street will be enriched by another gem.

The Ven. Dr. Clerke, Archdeacon of Oxford, held his Visitation to-day at St. Mary's. Priests of the type of Dr. Clerke are, alas! daily becoming more scarce and the admission into the Priesthood of half-educated men who delude themselves into the belief that they have all theological

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and liturgical knowledge ad unguem suggests gloomy reflections. Our clergy seem further than ever from attaining to the standard of their seventeenth-century predecessors, whose learning gave rise to that famous saying, Clerus Anglicanus stupor mundi.

Before the beginning of next term the fate or shape of Lord Salisbury's Bill will have been decided. I understand that, for the present, most of the Colleges have determined not to fill up their vacant Fellowships-at least, till the course which is to be taken becomes more clear. However necessary and desirable this may be, it is a serious disappointment to many who graduate this term, and intended to compete for Fellowships. In many cases it will, of course, change the whole current of a man's life.

The two Conservative clubs, the Canning and the Chatham, he'd their joint annual dinner on Saturday week. It was a complete success; but if those who have the arrangement of it another year would take a word of advice from me, I would hint that it would be better to choose some day other than a Fast Day of the Church on which to hold the dinner.

Endications of Current Opinion.

"We all like to see what the World says; though, perhaps, the World's sayings would not be so highly regarded, did we know who guided the pen and registered the opinion."-COLERIDGE.

FAILURE OF THE P.W.R. ACT.

(From the Morning Post of June 8, 1876.)

The working of the Public Worship Regulation Act has come to a dead lock. The Ridsdale case, the only one yet adjudicated upon in the new court, and now carried by appeal to the Privy Council, stands over until November, and is not certain to be heard even then. In the meanthe law, which were to be so speedy and effectual, are no terrors at all, time all goes on as before; nobody has been frightened; the terrors of and for a brief while longer the Ritual against which the Act was directed still keeps its hold on many crowded and influential congregations. This is a curious commentary upon the grand things that were said of the Bill when introduced into Parliament two years ago. Then we were told that its object was to simplify procedure and expedite "the law's delay." It was foretold that the immediate operation of the Act would be all that could be desired as a repressor of grievances, that aggrieved parishioners could put it in force by an expeditious process, and that the result would be rapid extermination of offensive clergy, a practical excommunication of certain laity, and a consequent adjustment thereupon of the public services of the Church to the general current of public opinion. Nearly two years have elapsed since the Bill was passed, and what has it done? Absolutely nothing. The furore against Ritual has subsided, except in so far as it is kept alive by the efforts of the Church Association. The general public is profoundly indifferent to it, and nobody speaks of the Public Worship Act without a smile at the boastful promises of its promoters and its own poor performances. So far as it has at present done anything at all, it has done only mischief. It has created several hitherto unknown ecclesiastical offences, it has called into existence a court whose jurisdiction is gravely challenged, and produced rules and orders which are as costly as intricate, and as dilatory as any that existed under the procedure which they have superseded. Under these circumstances it fails to command confidence or respect, and seriously damages the reverence which good citizens should cherish for every duly constituted legal tribunal. To one class of persons only is the new law accep'able-to the pretentious group of ultra-Protestants, who pride themselves upon the exclusive possession of the key of knowledge, and who deem it an acceptable service to the Almighty to persecute, under the pretence of prosecuting, those who cannot interpret the liturgical directions of the Prayer Book in their sense. It is to the instrumentality of the society organised by this extreme wing of the Evangelical party that the single prosecution now appealed against had its origin. There is not on record vet a solitary instance of a bona fide aggrieved parishioner, in the sense intended by the Act, coming forward to prosecute his clergyman. The parties who have hitherto put themselves in that position are aggrieved for the occasion. and no more. They do not represent their fellow parishioners nor the congregation of the indicted priest. They represent the persecuting party only, unless indeed we may consider them as also carrying out the wishes of the two Archbishops who introduced the Bill, and pleaded with so much passionate vigour for the retention of the Pendente lite clause as the very essence of the measure. But though the operation of the Act, so far as it has gone, has done nothing to vindicate it, no greater mistake could be made than to make small account of its capabilities of mischief. If we may credit the Chairman of the Church Association, who spoke at a recent meeting of that curious body, it is intended to utilise the Act to the utmost, and the Church is threatened with a protracted series of disturbances at their hands. They wait, however, the issue of Mr. Ridsdale's Appeal. Unlike themselves, we believe that that issue will much disappoint them. It may not, perhaps, affirm the whole position of the Ritualists, but it can hardly endorse the obnoxious decision in Mr. Purchas's case, and to that extent will neces sarily be contrary to the school to which the persecuting party belongs. Thus much, however, may be hoped-that the tribunal will not be packed, that the drawing up of the judgment will not be left to an Archbishop, and that, by whomsoever drawn, it will not be drawn in the interests of policy and to establish a foregone conclusion. That the Act was passed to establish such a conclusion we have the Prime Minister's own words. It was not to be an Act to settle what Ritualism was, or to try the legality of it, but "to put it down." We have sufficient confidence in the Privy Council to believe that they will not so far play into the intention of the Act as "to put down Ritualism," if Ritualism, as commonly understood, should turn out to be legal after all; and that, if it should turn out to be illegal, they will prove the illegality by a more satisfactory reasoning than was adopted in the Purchas Judgment. In

that case there would, doubtless, be a very general disposition amongst Ritualists to submit to the decision pending efforts to amend the law in the direction desired by them. But if nothing should result but a reaffirmation of what the Privy Council has already said, the tug of war would come, and the authors and promoters of the Act would have much to answer for.

In the meantime, however, there is a golden opportunity of peacemaking. A six-months' truce affords a grand occasion for reconsidering the position, with a view of ascertaining whether some voluntary action by the High Church party might not avert further litigation, with all its asperities and perils, its hindrances, and waste of power. The points of Ritual now in dispute are fewer than they were; can nothing be done in the way of concession under protest, and for the sake of peace, to take away all occasion of opposition and litigation? Granting for a moment that vestments, for instance, are perfectly legal, is there any necessity to use them if they give offence? Legality is not necessarily obligation. It does not follow that because you may do a thing that you must do it. And if the disuse of a newly revived custom, not of itself essential to the reality and integrity of worship, would conciliate opponents and restore peace, would not charity and duty seem to plead for concession? It is better to take wrong than to do wrong. None of the accessories of worship that go to make up high ritual are essential to the service. They are but modes of it; accidents, not essence. We can understand the courage that would fight to the death rather than surrender a right sought to be taken away by force; but it is not so easy to see the wisdom of provoking hostilities by practices not obligatory on the conscience, and therefore within the discretion of the priest, or at least of the ordinary, to use or disuse. We cannot but think that all the present troubles of the Church might be composed by a return to the primitive theory of Episcopacy, which made the bishops and not the priests responsible for the faith and worship of the Church. When the priest has obeyed his bishop the responsibility is with the latter; and in times of peril like the present the truest policy would be to make the

DEAN STANLEY'S INSULT TO THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.-We see it is stated, publicly, that the Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a circular-letter to the Bishops, in communion with that See, to gather their views as to another Lambeth Conference. It is a grave subject, and one on which we would not venture to advise. Christ's kingdom is organised with reference to such councils, and if they may be secured from a worldly spirit, and the fetters of external influence, they must be of great value. On the other hand, there are special difficulties in the way, at this time. With no feelings, except those of regret for the Church's sake, we cannot but recollect the petty assumptions which enabled the Dean of Westminster to counterbalance the large-hearted hospitalities of Lambeth and other "homes of England," and to inflict an indignity on the visiting Bishops, against which neither the Primate nor the Diocesan were able to protect them. We suppose our readers will remember the extraordinary rudeness with which Westminster Abbey was closed against the solemnities of the Conference. While such a state of things exists as might subject the Bishops to similar impertinences, we cannot but feel that self-respect dictates reserve and delay. When the Primate shall assure the Bishops that they are invited as such, and in their Synodical character, to an opening Service in "St. Peter's, Westminster," the least will have been done that should be expected, in atonement for the conduct of an individual whose position, under Royal patronage, enables him to multiply scaudals of formidable siguificance. The Orbit (Western New York).

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CONTENTS OF No. III. LEADING ARTICLES: Is Disestablishment likely to be a Cure for Present Evi.s? Judex Judicatus What is Conservatism? No. III. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Seccombe's Science, Theism, and Revelation-The Life and Times of Prince Charles Stuart-The Church In Baldwin's Gardens-The Annals of EnglandMagrath on University Reform-Nevins's Christ.anity and Astronomy-Can Churchmen Recognize the New Judge? FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: The Queen an Empress-inspection of Convents-Dr. Mylne, Bishop uf borab y-The Univers.ty of S. America-School Board Elections-Magna Charta and Church Freedom -City Swindlers - Bishop Perry's Fears- Mr. Grueber's Declaration - Filth of the Divorce CourtNew Bishoprick for Cornwall-Observance of LentThe Gauntlett fund. LETTERS: Mr. Huff on LawMr. Shipley's "Three Hours' Service at Santa Maria Novella, Florence." Church News, &c.

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CONTENTS OF No. VI. LEADING ARTICLES: Lord Granville's Resolution on the Burials QuestionThe Prospects of Christianity in the East-What is Conservatisın? No. VI.-Nebuchadnezzar and Henry VIII. Letter to A. P. De Lisle, Esq., on the Formation of au Uniat Church. No. I. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine-Terra Incognita: or the Convents of the United Kingdom-Conildenca in the Mercy of God-How to Communicate Properly-Stories from the Old Testament-Bidding to Intercession-Law and Vestments. ANTI-ERASTIAN DOCUMENTS: No. 1. Declaration touching the Royal Supremacy in Matters Ecclesiastica -No 2. Resolutions Regarding the Gorham Case-No. 3. Fourteen Objections to the Constitution, Powers and Mode of Procedure of the Existing Court of Final Appeal. INDICATIONS OF CURRENT OPINION: The Eigh Church Party "Drifting"- Tory Patronage. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: Mahometanism-Return of the Prince of Wales-Reception of the King of Hanover-The Convocation of Canterbury and the Burials' BillLords Selborne and Coleridge on the Burials' BillLord Sandown and the Education of the Poor-Counsels' Fees The Divorce Court and Morality-Agitation against Drunkenness-Legal Reform-" The Working Men's Petition" to Convocation-The New Parliamentary Irish Church "-The Necropolis Company. Vivisection-Church House for S.P.C.K and S.P.G The Appointment to the Bishopric of MelbourneRitualistic Wesleyans. THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL AT HOME. Ecclesiastical Art, &c.-Funeral Hymn, &c. LETTERS: An Important Admission-Parliament the Dernier Resort in Things Temporal: Convocation in Things Spiritual-The Horrors of Vivisection-St. Sav.our's Hospital- Do they Well to be Angry "--Protestantism, Rationali-m and Monasticism in the Church of England -Invocation of Saints.

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The PEOPLE'S MASS BOOK is intended to supply the want, largely felt by the English Catholic laity, of a devotional Office, at once in perfect harmony with the Liturgy of our Prayer Book and with the Ancient Missal of the West. It contains in a popular form, adapted to the simplest comprehension, as well as to the requirements of the most advanced Churchman, those formularies of Eucharistic Worship, undoubtedly Apostolic in their main features, which have been used by the great Saints, Martyrs, Confessors and Doctors of Western Christendom during, at least, the past fifteen centuries; and which, to the present day, are employed in the celebration of the Christian Mysteries throughout by far the larger part of the Church of God. These devotions are combined with the English Liturgy in such a way as to present both the one and the other complete and yet without confusion. The Manua is equally adapted for use at plain and at Choral Celebrations; and contains Forms of Prayer for those who communicate, as well as for those who merely assist at Mass.

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"The People's Mass Book' (Batty) is.... noteworthy for the scandal which it has excited in the Protestant mind. It con-ists of the Euglish Service augmented with rubrics from the Liturgy of 1549, and pcayers from the Sarum Missal. It also contains offices of Preparation and Thanksgiving. It is very nicely got up, and it has reached a second edition. -Church Times.

"Already in its Fourth Thousand'. . . . Our Reformers purifled the Mass Book of Rome and here comes a man who will acknowledge himself to be a Ritualist, who thinks it a good work to put all the idolatry back again. And his reason is that he finds it in the Ancient Liturgy of the Western Church' Prayers rejected by our Refor mers but now reinstated as part of the Communion Service or Mass-service, which is now circulating by thousands among people who still profess to belong to the Church of England. When the young

Victoria ascended the throne of England were there even so many as a score of churches open every Sunday morning for early Mass'? At the present moment are there not nearer a thousand?"—The Record.

"Mr. Grant may be commended for his skill in making a harmonious whole out of incongruous materials. Perhaps its least attractive feature is the title. It may be very true, that by our Reformers the highest act of worship was commonly called the Mass; ' and it is equally true, that it is a convenient little term just adapted, by its brevity, to modern English usage, and therefore not at all unlikely again to come into common use but its reintroduction must be exceedingly gradual."—John Bull. "There is much in this new Manual which is of special va ue at the present tine. Its chief feature consists in giving as devotions for the people either the actual words of the Secreta,' commonly used by the Celebrant, or prayers closely founded upon them. Persons using this book, therefore, will not be at a loss to know what the Priest is saying at the various parts of the Service, but will be able to offer the same prayers that he is offering, instead of having long prayers provided for them which cannot possibly be said in the interval of time allotted to them.

The Rubrics Irom King Edward's First Prayer Book in this little Manual are also an advantage at the present time, when many talk about that Book and few Union know what it contained."-English Church Gazette.

It would be curious to conjecture how the Public Worship Act, if fully developed, would deal with the compilers and clerical users of so astounding a compilation as The People's Mass Book.' "— Weekly Register.

"Will no doubt be found highly useful, as the form is convenient and the type clear."-Holy Teachings. "A cheap little book. It contains the entire Eucharistic Office, interpolated with Meditations for Private Use, Prayers for the Dead, Commemoration of the Living, &c. The Rubrics from the first Book of King Edward VI. in themselves show the real meaning of those ritual observances which have been so resuscitated during the last few years."-South London Observer.

"Nearly every doctrine which the great Reformers turned aside as the out-worn rags of superstition is here gathered up out of the dust, and careful y pieced and tagged together. Two or three years ago it would scarcely have been attempted to publish such a Mass Book as the present for the use of the English laity."-Echo.

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"Very conveniently bieuus the matter of the Latin and English Missals."-The Rev. Dr. Littledale.

"Is this a time for hesitation when The People's Mass Book,' for sixpence, is being sold and circulated in thousands through the land."-The Rev. Dr. Taylor of Liverpool.

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"Were it not for the proverbial impossibility of convincing people against their wills, we would recommend all would-be destroyers of the Church of England to read Mr. Harwood's book. Temperately written, logically argued, giving due weight to every consideration that can be urged either for or against Disestablishment, it cannot fail to carry home to the mind of every unprejudiced reader a conviction that the Established Church is absolutely necessary for the wellbeing of England, and that no other form of religious organisation could fill her place.”— Globe. FOURTH and CHEAPER EDITION, Revised and Enlarged, crown 8vo., 6s. (this day),

The Proceedings in Chancery, and other means set on foot by three persons (Messrs. J. M. HOLT, M.P., W. HARRISON, and W. H. G. BAGSHAWE), are still an ANNOYANCE. The object of them is to eject the Honorary Secretary from the direction of the Society he and his friends first founded, and obtain the control of the Society and of its Funds.

The above three persons, whom, though personally unknown to him, believing them friends to the cause, Mr. George R. Jesse, on the spur of the moment, unfortunately placed on his nominal committee, after he and his friends had created and launched the most munificent of the Subscribers and a large majority of the known members of his Society.

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As some misstatement and misapprehension appear to exist, it is advisable to correct the same. The conduct of the above three persons-the Anonymous Advertisements inserted by them in the Morning Post -their application to the Times to prevent the appearance in its columns of the Honorary Secretary's Manifestoes, the injury caused by their Legal Proceedings, to the large and increasing public demand for the Society's Publications (a demand which not only widely disseminated knowledge of the extent and atrocities of Vivisection, but increased the Funds of the

Some Reasons of Our Christian Hope. By the Society), have greatly tended to disorganise the Society

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Man in the Image of God; and other Sermons abour and harass created by these Law Proceedings, preached in the Chapel of the Magdalen, Streatham, 1874-76. By H. G. ROBINSON, M.A., Prebendary of York, &c. Crown 8vo., 7s. 6d.

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have been very great. They have prevented the Establishment of an Office in the Metropolis; the placing the Society on a Legal Basis; the first Annual Publication of its Proceedings and of its Accounts, and the Circulation of the same among the Subscribers.

Those Correspondents whose letters do not receive an early reply must kindly make allowance for the unavoidable delay caused by the above obstructions. GEORGE R. JESSE, Honorary Secretary, June 12, 1876. Henbury, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

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Incense, the Mixed Chalice, the Sign of the Cross,
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By WILLIAM GRANT, Layman of the Church of
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"A curious and interesting volume."-Weekly Register. "I can hardly find words to express to you how much I like your Memorials.' The truthful and most charitable loving-kindness running through the whole book shows the true friend in need to one who rever ought to have been judged like another man."-Rev. R. S. Hawker's Sister to the Author.

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of a good and rational explanation, without any lack
of loyalty to the National Church. This is here pro-
vided."-Penny Post.

"Will be found very useful both on account of the
simplicity of its style and the low price at which it is
published, which bring it within the means of anyone
Church, and what it is that is really taught. We are
who wants to know the meaning of what is done in
glad to notice two points, both in their way signs of
the times: the first is that the author is not a
Ritualistic Priest, but a Layman; the second is that
he is able to refer to a Charge from
Bishop Douglas of Bombay, as containing the best
possible resume of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist
set forth in this Tract.'"-English Church Union Gazette.
"Mr. Grant is evidently fully acquainted with
his subject. His Tractate is singularly free from
expressions calculated to offend those who may have
formed adverse opinions, and will attract readers of
a school of thought divergent from that to which the
writer himself belongs, whilst to the 'Ritualistic'
party the book will prove especially acceptable."-
Union Review,

sober and useful teaching on The Catholic Doctrine
"Mr. William Grant has collected together some
of the Christian Sacrifice, and the First Principles of
Ritual,' in a sixpenny pamphlet, which we recom-
mend to those who wish for something on these
especial subjects to put into the hands of enquirers."
-Church Review.

"The book is most instructive, and its simple
explanation of ceremonial, and the authority of the
Church for the use of the same, entitles it to be
perused nct alone by those who sympathise with the
Ritualistic' movement so called, but also by those
who desire to know the reason why so much agitation
is being raised, and in what way and to what extent
the extreme High Church party are palpably sup-
ported in ceremonial by the authority of our National
Church."-South London Observer..

"Mr. Grant may certainly be credited with being a scholarly and able defender of extreme High Church theories. To those who hold with the Ritualistic party in the Church this brochure will be welcome."Court Circular.

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A Journal of Religion, Politics, Literature

No. 9.-VOL. I.]

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and Art.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1876.

WAR IN THE EAST.

AR has begun, and the alarming rumours which have for some time been current have developed into stern reality. This is exactly what many of the most far-seeing have prophesied for some months, as sure to ensue. The truth is the Sick Man is in extremis, and it is only reasonable that, this being so, Russia should not stand wholly aloof when her intervention, as the great Christian nation of the East, is so eminently required. It is not to England's credit that Turkey should have been so long supported. Nor is it right that the scandalous position of repudiation of Turkey's liabilities and practical bankruptcy

should be tolerated.

But how stands the news concerning the war? From Berlin we read that the semi-official Agence Russe says that the St. Petersburg Exchange Gazette has received a telegram from Zara stating that Servia has declared war, and that the Servian troops have crossed the Turkish frontier. Vienna Tagesblatt asserts that 8,000 Servians have crossed the western frontier of the Principality, and are marching on Serayevo.

The

In consequence of a last diplomatic effort to settle pending difficulties, the Sérvian declaration of war was put off from the 27th to the 30th of last month. Such is the news reaching us from Belgrade.

The Vienna semi-official Presse declares all hope of preserving peace to be gone. Slavonic journals announce the concentration at Vosnesensk, in the Ukraine, of four Russian corps d'armée. So much for the news from Berlin. The following comes from Vienna :-"The Servian Agent here recently made communications which leave no doubt that Servia will go to war. According to him, no pretext or subterfuge will be sought for attacking. Servia will act openly, issuing a manifesto and stating therein the reasons which have induced her so to act." And the following despatch from Belgrade has been received by the Political Correspondence:-"The Servian Government stopped M. Christics' mission to Constantinople because the Porte declared that it could not entertain the subject of his mission, which had been previously communicated to it confidentially." Although the real military operations are only to commence about the 4th of July, some Servian Volunteer corps on the Drina and near Uziza have, nevertheless, already crossed the frontier. From Constantinople we learn that the Ottoman Government is supposed to be bribing Montenegro to abandon Servia, and that Servia's attitude is still hostile and threatening.

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that position which we have been foolishly aiding her rulers to bolster up; if we have no other scheme cut and dried, it is monstrous that Russia should be checkmated in her endeavour to serve the Christians of the East. The Christian idea still energizes in Russia, and the followers of the False Prophet get little sympathy there. Let the inevitable come to pass, therefore, and let New Rome become once again the chief seat of the great Christian Oriental Emperor. Better anything than Turkish incompetence, immorality and swindling.

And as to the balance of power, an alliance between England, Austria, France, and Spain-if such a step were possible, which we doubt, because of Bismarck's influencemight aid us to retain some semblance of it. But we have so long acted, as a nation, on expediency, and on the odious principles of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," that the Christian ideas have been long banished. They cannot now be recalled when their presence might be of some practical

use.

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PROGRESS AND CIVILIZATION.

HE Book which we have reviewed, in the first instance, in our last impression, and, secondly in another part of this number, Mr. Harwood's systematic treatise on "Disestablishment," rightly read, cannot fail to prove a certain and efficient warning of our true position as a Christian nation. The religion "which this writer would see "Established" is not in the least like the Christian Religion; it would be a jumble of contradictions, expressed in the jargon of Babel, and could only end in the eventual triumph of a blind and blank unbelief.

Now our present state in England is, in many respects, singularly like that of France before the Revolution,-an event which may be said to have commenced the present "Age of Progress" in which we live. There is no denying the fact that Invention and Discovery have been wonderfully carried out. Physical Science has advanced; the mechanical arts have been brought to singular perfection. And some people hold all this, and such as this, to be the triumphant march of Civilization. In truth, the anonymous author of "Supernatural Religion" maintains that civilization "is nothing else but the knowledge and observance of natural laws.” The enormous accumulation of wealth again, is another sign and token of " Progress." So is what are termed "our manifold tokens of intellectual advance.” Superficial education, a shallow smattering of everything and a real knowledge of next to nothing, is another sign. The total, or almost total, emancipation of everybody from anything like Authority, whether in dogma, morals, or politics, and finally "the glorious liberty of the press,' are marked signs of Progress.

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Now those who are well-informed maintain that there is a secret understanding between Russia and Prussia; by which, if the former power secures Turkey, Prussia shall be assured of something equally worth having. In three days Bismarck And let us, for a moment, draw a contrast between, for can, as is asserted, place 500,000 men under arms, and an example, such a true philosopher as the great Sir Isaac equal number, in addition, within a fortnight. Russia no Newton, who likened himself, in his enquiries and observadoubt can do as much. So that, if these two powers be tions, to a child picking up shells on the shore of the vast combined, England must bow to circumstances, and face the Ocean of Truth, and the average Englishman of this century inevitable. Our moral influence may be great our navy-the common-place politician, the half-educated newspaperefficient but we have no army which-in the event of a complication-could in any way compare with these.

Moreover, it is more than doubtful if the people of this country would stand a repetition of that insane Liberal mistake-the Crimean War. If Russia and Prussia should materially alter the balance of power by secretly co-operating with the Christians of Servia for emancipation and justice, and should succeed, all well and good. We, as a nation, because of our Indian possessions, must put down our foot on Egypt, as a consequence of such change. And we must be prepared to defend such a policy. If Turkey cannot hold

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scribe, who is allowed to use anonymously the Imperial and Royal We," or the successful City Merchant, who has allied himself with the penniless daughter of some poor Peer who each claims to give judgment off-hand on every subject in heaven above or in the earth beneath, by what Dr. Newman has termed "the floating opinions which have drifted into his mind."

With us, as in France during the last century, the idea that there is anything beyond or above those things that the British Citizen prides himself about, is scouted as ridiculous. The present world, eating and drinking, marrying and giving

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