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For Mr. and Mrs. Loyson, the monk and his "lady," he piles up adjectives of admiration. In Dis-union he delights. But an attempt at Re-union on its only intelligible basis, Authority, he characterizes as criminal folly"! We may well enquire what it is that the Scottish Guardian professes or pretends to guard?

The Catholic Revival at Home.

The Civil Authorities of the Isle of Man have made a formal complaint because Dr. Powys, the Bishop of that See, has been absent from his Diocese for more than two years.

We learn, on the authority of an English clergyman, that, at the recent great festival held at the Grotto of Lou: des, two wonderful miracles of healing were wrought-cures undoubted, sudden, and complete.

The Rev. Crauford Tait, M.A., who was only ordained Priest last year, and has had no parochial experience, has just been appointed to the Vicarage of Cheriton, in Kent, worth nearly £900 a-year. It is reported that the Archbishop of Canterbury has made a private exchange with Mr. Brockman, the Patron, who is to fill up the Living of Wrotham, or some other equally good, in the Archbishop's gift, at its next vacancy.

It is stated that Mr. Howarth, the Rector of St. George's, Hanoversquare, is about to resign his influential Living, and that a very able man, the Rev. Robinson Thornton, D.D., elder brother of Bishop Thornton, will succeed him. Dr. Thornton, who was sometime Fellow of St. John's, Oxford, and Curate of St. Thomas's, Oxford, was a double first-classman twenty years ago. It is an excellent appointment.

CHURCHMEN AND THE P.W.R. ACT.-On Thursday evening the first of a series of Conferences of Churchmen was held at New Cross, with the view of inaugurating a movement for the repeal of the P.W.R. Act. There was a large and enthusiastic attendance, and resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to endeavour to effect the repeal of the Act, and also to aid any clergymen that may feel it their duty to decline to recognize the Court of Lord Penzance.

THE BISHOPRIC OF CALCUTTA.-We hear that the delay which has occurred in filling up the Bishopric of Calcutta, vacant by the death of Dr. Robert Milman, arises from the circumstance that a proposition is under the consideration of the Government for the formation of another new Indian Bishopric, the seat of which shall be at Lahore, thus taking from the existing Diocese of Calcutta an immense amount of territory and many important districts which a Bishop of Calcutta, having the present jurisdiction, could scarcely ever hope personally to visit.

CROSSES ON THE ALTAR.-The Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in the Judicial Committee, on Tuesday week, in the case of Masters v. The Durst, which involved the question of crosses on the altar. Vicar of St. Margaret's, Lynn, Norfolk, had erected a moveable cross on the re-table over the altar in the church, which had been removed by the parishioners' churchwarden. It was urged, on the part of the Rev. Mr. Durst, that only fixed crosses had been condemned. Their lordships could not arrive at such a conclusion, but were of opinion that the cross, in the position which it occupied while in the church, was forbidden by law; and they decided that the suit should be dismissed. As both parties had been in the wrong in acting without a faculty, they refused costs.

CHURCHES RESTORED AND REOPENED.-The ancient church of St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, which was erected by Robert Chichester, a Bishop of Exeter, "upon the site of some tenements held by his predecessor Osborne," has been thoroughly restored and reopened, the Bishop of the Diocese officiating on the occasion. The church is the largest and one of the most beautiful in the city of Gloucester. In the burial ground lie the remains of Robert Raikes, the founder of Sundayschools. During the civil war in the reign of Charles I., the city was besieged by the Royalists, and the church was struck by a spent cannonball near the east window. The marks made by the ball are still visible. -The Bishop of Lincoln has reopened the churches of Branston and Navenby in his Diocese. At the latter church the Bishop of Hereford was the preacher, Mr. Hays, the Rector, having been one of his Curates at Leeds, and the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, was one of the speakers at the subsequent luncheon.

THE LATE MRS. J. C. TALBOT.-The following announcement has been made: :-"It has been felt by some friends and relations of the late Mrs. J. C. Talbot that a life so valuable to all who knew her, and exercising for many years so wide an influence in many channels of religious thought and work, should not be left to pass away without some memorial. It is thought that many of those who have been brought in contact with her either through the intimacy of personal friendship, or by a common interest in the objects to which her time, strength, and money were chiefly given, will welcome an opportunity of showing their love and regard for her memory, especially if this can be done in connection with one of the great Church works, the success of which lay nearest to her heart. With this end in view, it is proposed to found a scholarship at Keble College, Oxford, to receive the name of "The Caroline Talbot Scholarship," or such other name as may be thought desirable. To carry out this object it has been ascertained that a sum of £2,000 should be obtained, the interest of which would maintain a scholarship of sufficient value."

THE CASE OF THE REV. ARTHUR TOOTH.-The prosecution by the Church Association of the Rev. A. Tooth, Vicar of St. James's, Hatcham,

came before the ex-Judge of the Divorce Court on Thursday. Three counsel appeared on behalf of the prosecutors, viz., Dr. Stephens, Q.C., Mr. B. Shaw, and Mr. Blakesley. Mr. Tooth ignores the jurisdiction of the Court and did not appear either personally or by counsel, and after his name had been thrice called over by an elderly man dressed in black, and no response being forthcoming the ex-Judge of the Divorce Court proceeded to hear the complaints brought against Mr. Tooth. The charges are eighteen in number, as to illegal vestments, using incense, having a mixed chalice, adopting the eastward position, having his back to the congregation; kneeling during the prayer of consecration; using wafer bread; making the sign of the cross; having the hymn "Agnus Dei" ("O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world") sung; partaking of the sacrament when less than three persons were present, having a great bell tolled during the Communion Service, with having lighted candles held by persons in cassocks and surplices, with wearing a belt, and with having images near the altar. Further, that since the consecration he has had a large crucifix in the nave, near the pulpit, and has had a second altar. After hearing some evidence, the ex-Divorce Judge said he would reserve his judgement.-The case against the Vicar of St. Vedast Foster, City, comes on for hearing to-morrow (Thursday.)

NEW CHURCHES AND CONSECRATIONS.-Last week the Bishop of Oxford consecrated the chapel of the Saviour in Bier-lane, Windsor, as a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity, Windsor, the first stone of which was laid last November by the Princess Christian, who was among the congregation. The Bishop celebrated the Blessed Sacrament, and was also the preacher both at the morning and afternoon services, when the hymns were accompanied by a military band.-A church, to be called St. Emmanuel, is about to be erected at West Dulwich, and the cornerstone has been laid by Mr. Francis Peek, a munificent donor to the new edifice. The religious portion of the ceremony was conducted by the Bishop of Guildford.-On Saturday the foundation-stone of the vicarage to be attached to St. Agnes' Church, Kennington-park, now in course of erection and shortly to be opened, was laid by Canon Gregory, in the presence of a numerous body of the clergy, members of the congregation of St. Agnes, and others.-Bishop Tufnell, acting for the Bishop of Rochester, has re-consecrated the church of St. Nicholas, Colchester, which has been restored from designs by Sir Gilbert Scott, who, at the subsequent luncheon, said that the north aisle was the old nave and chancel, and that in the restoration he had not discarded or thrown away one jot or tittle of the old work. The church has been very greatly enlarged, and is in future to be the parish church for the united parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Runwald, the church of the latter, which stands in the middle of the High-street, being shortly to be taken down. A new church, situated in the grounds of the ancient Benedictine Abbey, dedicated to St. Peter, has been erected at Spalding, in the Diocese of London, and was last week consecrated by the Bishop of the Diocese who preached a remarkably striking sermon on the occasion.

THE LAY PROTEST AGAINST THE P.W.R. ACT.-On Monday evening there was a most enthusiastic and largely attended meeting of Lay Churchmen held at Cannon-street Hotel to consider what steps should be taken to prevent the just liberties of the laity being restricted or taken away, or the P.W.R. Act being enforced against the clergy, with special reference to the case of St. Vedast Foster, City. The chair was occupied by Mr. Freeman, who made a capital speech, and pointed out that the meeting had been called to exercise the right of English laymen in protesting against the working of what they considered an unjust and oppressive Act, in direct violation of Magna Charta. The magnitude of the meeting was, he said, in itself evidence of the strong feeling entertained on this subject. The first resolution was proposed in a telling speech by Mr. Stafford C. Northcote. It was as follows:"That the Public Worship Regulation Act, being a direct infringement of the rights of the laity of the Church of England, and an attempt to interfere with their constitutional liberty of worship, this meeting pledges itself to do its utmost to obtain the repeal of the Act." Mr. Northcote was interrupted more than once in the course of his remarks by a gentleman in the body of the hall, who was eventually ejecteḍ. Mr. Fifoot, in seconding the resolution, remarked upon the importance of getting together a body of English laymen, in whose hands the future of the Church of England was vested, and in obtaining their opinions. The clergy were the trustees of the laity, whose inheritance should be held free from probate duty (cheers and laughter). No power could take away from the laity that spiritual property save the Power by whom it had been bestowed. Mr. Layman, of St. Alban's, Holborn, moved the second resolution in a speech which elicited continual applause. It certainly was the most effective speech of the evening. Not so much from what Mr. Layman said himself, though that was good, but from the fact of his reading several extracts from a pamphlet written by the Bishop of Carlisle when he was Dean of Ely, wherein he stated that there could be no doubt whatever that what were termed "the Eucharistic Vestments" were legal and should be worn in every parish church in the kingdom. Mr. Layman also quoted from the Bishop's speech in the House whilst the Bill was passing through Parliament, namely, that where he found the Communicants of the parish wished these vestments to be worn, he would not allow proceedings to be taken against the clergyman on the complaint of three so-called "aggrieved" parishioners. The resolution was as follows::-"That until such repeal is obtained, and inasmuch as no proceedings can be carried into court under the Public Worship Regulation Act without the direct concurrence of the archbishops or bishops, they be earnestly entreated to refuse any concurrence in preceedings under this Act." Mr. J. Turner moved, and Captain Fortescue secouded, the third resolution:-"That this meeting pledges itself to do its utmost to aid any clergyman prosecuted under the Public Worship Regulation Act, should temporal punishment ensue upon his refusal to recognize the court instituted under the Act, inasmuch as the said court is a secular court attempting to exercise spiritual authority." All the resolutions were carried with unanimity, only one person objecting, and this one individual, doubtless a member of the Church Asso

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ciation, elicited much laughter by holding up his hand against each resolution. We certainly were much surprised and gratified at finding the meeting so largely attended. At least, from 1,500 to 2,000 pe: sons were present, and not as it has been so often stated by mere boys and beardless youths. Of the whole assembly we only saw two boys present, and they were evidently over 15 years of age, but the average was from 30 up to over 60. And they were all evidently in earnest, terribly in earnest," as one speaker advised them to be, and to do all they could, to work, and agitate, agitate, and agitate, as the Archbishop of Canterbury had advised the meeting of "Working Men," till they got the obnoxious Act repealed. The speeches (which we have not attempted to give even an outline of) were all short, vigorous and to the point. They showed that the Catholic Faith had a grievance, and were determined to get that grievance removed. The key-note of the whole was that, If the Bishops were determined to "stamp out Ritualism "—a feat they would never accomplish-the Catholic laity were determined to crush out Erastianism. The proceedings were brought to a close by the formation of a Committee to carry the Resolutions into effect, and with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

FRAGMENTA VARIA.-The Bishop of London has consecrated a portion of the parochial cemetery at Hammersmith for the burial of Churchmen. A part remains unconsecrated for the use of Dissenters and Unbelievers. -The festival of the Clewer Sisterhood was held last week, the Bishop of Ely being the preacher. The attendance of friends was large, but the alms given were £200 below the average.-Lady Willoughby de Eresby has given £500 towards the restoration of Skendleby Church, near Spilsby. We hear from the Record that the Rev. S. Minton, an unattached Clergyman, has been preaching in a Dissenting meetinghouse at Birmingham.-The Rev. J. Moorhouse, Bishop-designate of Melbourne, has been presented by his parishioners of Paddington with a purse containing £900, and a pair of branch candl sticks, the whole valued at £1,053.-We regret to hear that the Bishop of Rochester is very unwell-Some much-needed improvements have taken place in the mode of celebrating Divine Service in the parish church of Margate. During the past week an octave of services has been held in connection with the restoration of the church; the choir are vested in surplices; Evening Communions have been abolished; the seats are now all free and open, and a beautiful stone pulpit has been placed in the church with figures of SS. John, Peter, and Paul.-Last week on the occasion of the second triennial festival of the Salisbury Diocesan Training College some new buildings were opened and were dedicated by the Bishop, the Bishop of Maritsburg being also present. Canon Ashwell, who was the preacher, dwelt on the rapid rise of theological colleges as a proof of the Church revival going on in our midst.-The Rev. Godfrey Bud, who attained his 80th year on Saturday week, has resigned the Rural Deanery of Mersea, to which he was appointed by Bishop Blomfield when Essex was in the London Diocese, and he has since served under B.shops Money Wigram, and Claughton.-The late Vicar of Windsor established very successfully Sunday classes for the children of the middle classes, which were held in the Town Hall. This has given umbrage to certain Dissenters, and it is said that the municipal authorities are about to withdraw the privilege from the new Vicar of holding these services.-The Archdeacon of Middlesex, the Rev. G. Hodson, Mr. A. W. Hall, M.P., and Mr. Philip Cazenove have been elected members of the Committee of the National Society.-It is reported that the offer of £1,200 towards the founding of the Bishopric of Cornwall emanates from Lady Rolle.- The Flavel Cook Defence and Testimonial Funds were closed on Tuesday. Towards paying the expenses of the Personality-of-the-Devil dispute £1.100 was raised, and for the Testimonial Fund, nearly £1,500.-At the Wem Chapter held at Moreton Corbet, the Rural Dean in the chair, it was unanimously resolved to petition Parliament, stating that, while respecting the rights of conscience, the principle laid down in 1839 should be re-affirmed, viz., that no system of national education can be held to be satisfactory but such as is based on the teaching of Holy Scripture, and praying Parliament to devise such means as may seem fittest to give effect to that principle. It is proposed to celebrate the twentieth year of the Episcopate of the Bishop of Ripon, by placing his Lordship's portrait in the episcopal palace to remain there as an heirloom.-A handsome lych-gate, has just been placed at the entrance to the "God's acre of the Parish Church, Old Windsor. The gate is a parting gift from the Jate Vicar, Mr. Blunt, to his old parishioners.-A memorial has been presented to the Bishop of St. David's by some of the Welsh-speaking inhabitants of Swansea, praying him not to institute to the vacant Vicarage of St. Mary's any clergyman ignorant of the Welsh language. The Bishop, after consultation with the patrons of the benefice, has decided to refer the question to a commission.-Since the formation of the Bishop of London's Fund in 1863 until the present time £550,000 has been contributed to it.-The Bishop of Winchester and the council of the fund in his diocese have decided to give £5,000 to the Bishopric of Labore, in India, and £10,000 to the proposed new Bishopric of Rangoon. The Marquis of Salisbury has subscribed £1,000.

Letters to the Editor.

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“As 'Brevity is the Soul of Wit' so short Letters are certainly more readable than long ones. In my judgment an Editor should not be pestered with any which are not brief, concise, well-written, and to the point; signed openly and honestly, with their writers' names."-CHARLES LAMB.

BARBARITY, DEMONISM AND LYING OF THE
VIVISECTORS.

SIR-One fact outweighs any amount of declamation. The Royal Commission, says the memorial presented by Mr. Ernest Hart in the name of nearly 2,000 medical men, "failed to elicit evidence of even a single instance of want of humanity among the professors and teachers of the medical schools of Great Britain." Is this fact, or is it mere empty declamation? It is a thing which can easily be decided, for the

proceedings of the Royal Commission are open for the inspection of all who desire to read them. Among those examined by the Commissioners was Dr. Legg, professor of anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He stated that, among other experiments, he operated on sixteen cats, some of which lingered eight, ten, seventeen, and twenty-three days. The animals, he added, suffered very little pain after the bile ducts had been ligatured. If we turn to the "St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports" (vol. ix.. pp. 161-81) we find a detailed account of these experiments, in which the cats died a slow death of twenty-five days, and which caused very little pain. First, we find that cats were used in preference to dogs, because the former are more tenacious of life than the latter-that is to say, can suffer more pain without the pain actually killing them. Dogs live only five to ten days after the operation, whereas cats live as long as 25 days. Dr. Legg next proceeds to tell us that had he to repeat these experiments, he "should choose only young, not fully-grown, animals, and a warm time of the year. Though the cats were kept in a warm place, and the January of this year was mild, yet three of them were found dead one morning, after a slight frost in the night." Then follows the hideous details of the operations. The animal was first secured in a Czermak's holder-itself a horrible instrument of torture-to prevent the creature from making any movement, and chloroform given largely, so as to secure a deep narcosis. “This latter point," remarks Dr. Legg, "is worthy of attention; for, unless the animal be completely under the influence of chloroform, the bowels are apt to prolapse, and interfere with the success of the operation. It is cut open to expose its interior. The stomach and duodenum are pushed aside. The bile duct is tied in two places and cut. Then the belly walls were brought together with ordinary sutures, and the wretched cat left to linger on until it died, unless, as in some cases, a second operation was performed upon it." Dr. Legg tells us that the cause of death in these creatures is very obscure. Blondlot and many others attribute it to peritonitis. But peritonitis-inflammation of the bowels-is a disease which causes, perhaps, more pain than any other to which flesh is heir. Yet Dr. Legg did not hesitate to declare before the Royal Commissioners that these animals "suffered very little pain after the bile ducts had been ligatured." Such is one fact; it is not "false," for it is the evidence of Dr. Legg himself; it is not exaggerated," for the report is Dr. Legg's own. Perhaps it is "sentimental" to consider such operations cruel; but of that the public must be the judge. "Humanity" is a word which must be defined by the opinion, and judged of by the conscience of the individual. But if with this case before them-and it is but one of many-the medical profession, represented by the many men of science who crowded the rooms and corridors of the Home Office last Monday, lay it down as their deliberate judgment that the Royal Commission "failed to elicit evidence of even a single instance of want of humanity among the professors and teachers of the medical schools of Great Britain," they will surely find that the large majority of Englishmen-who, Sir William Withey Gull informs us, are naturally humane-are of a very different opinion. ONE OF THEM.

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NEO-RITUALISTIC RANT.

SIR, Is it not worse than nonsense to talk, as one of your contemporaries has lately been doing, of "no person with the faintest gleam of intelligence,' 'no one out of Hanwell becoming a Roman Catholic ?" Has not such swe ping misrepresentation eventually led many to secede? They have been taught all their lives that Roman Catholics are scoundrels, idiots and dolts, till one day they meet with a devoted earnest priest, or a spiritual book, and the revulsion is so strong that they are carried away and are "received."

Let us state the case fairly and honestly and we shall gain in the end. The arguments on the Roman side are many and strong, and the controversy is not to be settled by jaunty off-hand assertion. Where is there among our Bishops one fit to hold a candle to Cardinal Mauning? What theologian have we like Dr. Newman? Is Lord Ripon, a statesman of mature age, only fit for Hanwell? What shall we say of Lacordaire, Besson, Vianney, and a host of other saintly men who have lived and died in communion with Rome in our own day? Truth is not promoted by the suppression of the truth, or by shameless repetition of

untruths.

Men are still going over to Rome, priests and laymen, men hard to replace. It is said they are young and unknown men. It may be replied, men of middle age, trammelled with wife and children, and high place, have strong inducements to endure and wait and hope, not to say to quash convictions, but younger men are free to act upon such convictions, and they go. We may lament it, we cannot do it ourselves, but let us at least argue and reason, not rant and scream, for men worthy CHRISTOPHER. of the name will not be influenced by such poor stuff.

[We print the above, from a beneficed Rector, though somewhat against our rules: for the justice of the remarks made by our correspondent is obvious. Men of position should boldly speak out.-ED. PILOT.]

WHERE ARE WE?

SIR,-I took in the Church News from its first number to its last, and its successor, the Church Herald, till I was sickened by its continuous prating about our "veritable" branch of the Catholic Church, and its heretical tone. As soon as I heard of the PILOT I ordered it. The Editor of the Church News thought fit to call me, in 1867, a "High Church Radical," because I sent him a long letter advocating, at the risk of being driven out of the Establishment, a bold and determined policy on the part of Catholics, and for endeavouring to show, that though we might form, in the eyes of the world, but a small and insignificant sect, if separated from the Fstablishment, yet that we should not be without our consolations. A good deal has happened to the Church of England since then, but I have seen nothing to alter the opinion which I then advocated. I have been much interested with the numbers of the PILOT; I wish I could add that they contained nothing to jar on my feelings. I quite agree with you, for instance, in thinking that "Presbyter Anglicanus" has been hardly treated by the Anglican Church Press, but is he worthy of no censure? The greater part of his

pamphlet is simple truth, but is that any justification for the step he took? He, an anonymous Anglican Priest, writes a complaint, damaging to his own Church, to the leader of a bitter schism (if the Church of England is indeed a Church in aught but name). And that leader is no ordinary leader, like the late Cardinal Wiseman was, but a deserter from the ranks of the English clergy, in their day of sore need. There cannot be two Catholic Churches in one place, so either the Church of England is the sole representative of Catholicism in England, or she is a gross imposture. If the first, whatever her faults may be, I fail to see how what was originally a schismatical body, can, save by repentance, be whitewashed, and become the representative of Catholicism. On the other hand, if the Church of England is indeed an imposture, and the Anglo-Roman body a true Catholic Church, then as soon as we have assured ourselves that such are the facts, are we bound to do penance for our past heresy and schism, which we can only perform by unconditional submission to the true Church. I believe with you, that one great cause of our present unhappy position is our divided counsels, and the way large numbers of Catholics have allowed themselves to be betrayed into Liberalism. For years the Guardian has been busily engaged in luring on Churchmen to back up Mr. Gladstone, whether right or wrong. No doubt, when Mr. Gladstone was a Tory, as well as a sound Churchmen, he was a promising leader; but time went on and he got laxer and laxer in his political views, till at last he joined the Palmerston Ministry. Tory Churchmen were then seduced in to giving him their support by being told that he would have very considerable influence with Lord Palmerston as regards ecclesiastical appointments. They were disappointed. At first, the Church Times advocated Toryism as well as Catholicism; indeed it boasted of having greatly influenced the Oxford election when Mr. Gladstone lost his seat for that University. But because Mr. Disraeli (a statesman for whom I have never had much respect myself) made some bad appointments, the Church Times suddenly veered round to Radicalism. Since then its new friend has sacrilegiously spoiled the Irish Church, and by the absurd constitution he was pleased to give it, as a Disestablishment, he has been the cause of its descending to a still lower depth of Protestantism than it had reached before. As long as the Irish Church retained the Prayer Book intact, there were hopes that it might sooner or later follow in the tracts of the Church of England. But now my fear is, that the Irish Church may drag the English Church down to her own level. If the Irish Church becomes committed to heresy, and if the Anglican Bishops ignore that heresy and communicate with her, they will, I suppose, commit the Church of England to heresy; a danger which I do not remember to have seen noticed anywhere. Then Mr. Gladstone's Ministry were the authors of the present scheme of godless education. Churchmen, one would have thought, would have had sympathy for the Pope and the deprived rulers of Italy; for whatever their faults, not only were they the pioneers that he ordained of God, but, moreover, they were the representatives of true religion, while their adversaries were men of every hue of irreligion and of heresy. But Mr. Gladstone was pleased to back up a liar like Cavour, and a godless infidel like Garibaldi, and so High Churchmen threw all their traditions and good feelings to the winds, and sneered at the Prisoner of the Vatican. What right had we to expect God's blessing on such a policy? We, the descendants of the Cavaliers and of the Nonjurois! But not only did the Church Times change its political tone, but, in spite of its repeated boasts, I maintain it has not been true to its ecclesiastical colours either. When "Ritualism" was in full fling ten years ago, who more bold than the Church Times; it cast its prudent counsels to the winds, and reported every supposed advance in Ritualism with glee, till, I suppose, it thought it had crowned the edifice by reporting how a boat's head had been solemnly offered on God's altar at Haydock; for it was not till the gross irreverence, however unintentional, of that act had been commented on elsewhere, that the Church Times drew in its horns and apologized for having published the report without a protest. In those days we were told that the Evangelicals were a rope of sand, and that within ten years the day would be ours. But the " Church Association" I think the late Dean of Ripon, when proposing that a guarantee fund should be raised, inentioned what the Church Times had said about the Low Church party, and urged his hearers to show that they were no rope of sand. But in 1868 the Church Times took a lower tone and was base enough to advocate economy in preaching the Faith, so as to escape persecution, if the doctrine of the Real Presence should be declared to be ill gl. Since then, it has at times hinted strongly, that if necessary, the clergy would be justified in yielding all ritual points, including the Eastward Position, at the command of a secular court; often it had urged them to refuse to obey their Bishops, because it would be a betrayal of the law of the Church, which Bi hops and clergy alike are bound to obey! Is it to be wondered at that our enemies charge us with being lawless, and with a determination of only doing what is agreeable to our own sweet wills? In bare justice, I am bound to add that latterly the Church Times has assumed a higher tone as regards "obedience to the lesser." But 1870 came, and with it the definitions of the Vatican Council. Till then, as Mr. Walker says, the whole Catholic party were Re-unionists; and that, I must remind him, in spite of much discouragement on the part of Rome. A change did come over the Catholic party in the Church of England, and is it to be marvelled at or even blamed? Long before the date of the A.P.U.C., Churchmen had been praying for Re-union, witness the "Apologia." The A.P.U.C. circulates a form of intercession amongst its Anglican members that the Council might be guided aright; there were strong hopes amongst many of us that the Council might prove a stepping-stone towards Re-union. We have been lately told that Bishop Forbes was prepared to attend at Rome to give information about our Communion, but he found it would be a mere waste of time to carry out his intention. It is generally believed that Cardinal Manning was one of the chief promoters of the dogma which dashed our dearest hopes to pieces. Could we accept that dogma? Certainly not, unless instead of seeking for corporate Re-union we were content to cry peccavi, cast Anglicanism overboard, and make individual submission to

arose;

Dr. Manning. I am not one of those who greatly blame the minority of the Bishops for accepting the definition subsequently; for they had always believed that to be members of the Catholic Church, they must be in communion with the second chair of Peter; but it is a fact that the Council was by no means unanimous, and unless Rome's theory of the Church be right, it had no claim to be considered Ecumenical. How then could honest Anglicans be expected to accept the Dogma of Infallibility, opposed as it is to their own tradition, and, as our theologiaus have taught us, to Catholic Tradition and history? And if not then, how can they now? Rome told us plainly that she would accept no overtures from us as a body of Catholics, she gave us neither hope nor sympathy. But a body did appear in the West, which stretched out a friendly hand towards us and to the great Eastern Church; what that body may yet become none of us can tell; for one, I do not feel so sanguine as to its future as I once did, but I am still in hopes that it may retain its Catholic character. We all must feel thankful to the Alt-Catholics for their recent endeavours to clear up the great difference which sparates East from West. And now, Sir, in reference to Mr. Walker's letter, I want to remind him of a fact which, though he mentions it, he appears to forget in his argument. The A P.U.Č. was established to re-unite those who claim the inheritance of the Priesthood and the name of Catholic. Because in her present temper, Rome will have nothing to do with Re-union, there is no need for us to give up the A.P.U.C. and seek either reception into the Roman Communion, or, what appears to me to be the ridiculous plan, of getting permission to form a Uniat Church. It is still left open to us to work for full inter-communion with the Oriental Churches, to bring back by prayers and missions the Eastern heretics into the fold, and then, perhaps, we may hope to soften Rome's heart towards us. It is almost impossible to exaggerate the evils of our present position I fully feel. But cannot we exercise the virtue of hope, and, after doing all in our power, trust in God. He has, Mr. Walker being witness, been with us hitherto, and so He will be till the end, if we will only trust Him. But how can we hope for His blessing if we give up the battle at last, and begin to doubt whether we are really Catholics at all? It is not a question of numbers or of wealth, but of Faith and Sacraments. If we are driven from the Establishment because we will not give up the Catholic Faith, the Establishment will indeed lose all claim to Catholicity, but we shall be every bit as Catholic as we are now. We may be despised, laughed at by the world, and sneered at by the Anglo-Roman schism, but we shall still be the real Catholic Church of England; and then, too, we may hope that the badly set limb may be reset; we shall be burdened with no Act of Uniformity; our Services can be remodelled, and we shall doubtless have again the Reserved Sacrament. At present, it appears to me, we want sound and sober leaders in lieu of taking a newspaper as a Pope, instead of as an organ. We want leaders such as Archdeacon Denison and Mr. Bennett, of Frome, men of mark and of position; not anonymous writers, who one day praise books of devotion containing prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and almost the next, out of what looks very like personal spite, abuse the sweet devotion as heretical; who one year find fault with a Priest for objecting to our seeking the intercession of our dear Mother and the Saints, and another find fault with those who have learnt to believe in the Communion of Saints in its fulness; who praise the "Kiss of Peace" and then deny the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation as a Popish error! PERPLEXED.

June 20, 1876.

MR. BRUCE STUART AND THE BISHOP OF BRECHIN. SIR, Mr. Bruce Stuart is a little mistaken as to the opinions and Faith of Bishop Forbes. That Prelate has again and again expressed to me his conviction, that cur Church needed the restoration of our national Primacy. He always maintained the need of an Archbishop of St. Andrew's, independent of Lambeth.

Now, if a Head be wanted for Scotland, why not for the whole Western Church? Suppose St. Andrew's had i's Archbishop again, would there not be an appeal to the Western Patriarch? Let Mr. Bruce Stuart work out this idea. G. B. ALLAN STEWART.

Edinburgh, July 10, 1876.

MR. BRUCE STUART ON "THE PILOT.” SIR, I think your altering of the heading of my last letter (literally) impertinent, presuming, and ungentlemanly. Knowing, however, that dogmatic Catholicism and noblesse oblige do not always amount to introconvertible and interchangeable terms, I am not much surprised. As it is, when my subscription is exhausted, pray do not trouble to forward to me your able advocation of Papal Egotism, of which my revered friend, the late noble, scholarly, and dauntless Priest, Canon Humble, was no admirer. He was essentially a Catholic, not a Roman (heretical) one. We here don't want a resumption of Papal Supremacy. We want, and pray for, a re-united Christendom, and General Councils, in which the Bishop of Rome shall preși le as Primus inter pares. May God show the night! K. BRUCE Stuart.

July 5.

[Mr. Bruce Stuart is mistaken. We did not alter the heading of his letter, because there was no heading to alter. We simply placed as suitable a one as we could excogitate; and certainly intended neither impertinence nor presumption. As to the latter part of his present polite communication, we can only say, that he mistakes our motives and misrepresents our aims.-ED. PILOT.]

CORPUS CHRISTI DAY AT ARUNDEL. SIR, A copy of the PILOT has just been sent to me, from which I learn that on the occasion of the Roman Catholic procession on Corpus Christi, in this town, the bells of my church "rang a joyous peal." You are good enough to commend the proceeding. Will you now be kind enough to allow me to say through your columns, that there is not the slightest truth in the report, and that I do not at all agree with your

view of the matter? It may be that a few nominal members of the Church of England walked in the procession, but if they did they took part in the schismatical worship of the Church of Rome contrary to my teaching and my expressed desire.

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CONTENTS OF No. II. LEADING ARTICLES: Religion in Germany and its Warnings-Other Fallacies of Lord Penzance-What is Conservatism? No. II. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Some Modern Difficulties, by Mr. Gould-The Discipline of Christ and the Discipline of Devils-Animal Torture, by Mr. G. R. Jesse-Scraps from my Scrap Book-Dr. Pusey's Sermon at Oxford-Funeral Discourses on Lady Augusta Stanley-Mission Life in East London-Dean Burgon's and Cason Baynes's Sermons-Oxenham's New Books, &c. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: Religious Persecution-Don Carlos of Spain-Observance of Lent-Queen or Empress?-Non-Christian Education- Water-drinking by Act of Parliament-Threepenny-Bit LaymenThe Hon. C. L. Wood's Apologia-The Vagaries of Ritualism - Mr. Tooth's Policy. CORRESPONDENCE: Letters from Messrs. Huff, Hobbs, Mossman, Preston, and "Presbyter Anglicanus." Art, Letter from Rome, Church News, &c.

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