to high ritualistic eyes. The Hon. C. L. Wood spoke only temperately for his party, when he said: "To ask those who believe in the divine right of the Episcopate to the Government of the Church to submit to Episcopal decisions, on the ground of that divine right, when you tell them at the same time that those decisions are bound by the rulings of any secular Court, is a mockery and a sham. A bishop, with his eyes fixed on the judgmentseat of Christ, conscious that to that Tribunal alone he is responsible, and that in regard to his decisions he is bound not by Acts of Parliament or the rulings of any secular tribunals, but by the principles and rules of that great spiritual society through which he derives all his authority over the conscience, is, indeed, an object of the highest reverence, and great is the responsibility of those who disobey him; but for a bishop, who is the mere instrument for enforcing the decisions of a Court, to which the Church owes no allegiance, nothing can be claimed, and to him nothing will be given."

Now, we are only poor benighted outsiders; and it seems to us that a lay judge, as well as a bishop, may have "his eyes fixed on the judgment-seat of Christ, conscious that to that tribunal alone he is responsible": nay, it is conceivable that a bishop, in acting on his own responsibility, amenable to no law, might fix his eyes on something very different from "the judgment-seat of Christ," might, in plain English, be just as much led by pride, and love of power, and passion as other men. The keen Bishop of Manchester sent an arrow straight home, when he magnanimously asked whether they wanted to be judged by bishops instead of laymen. "You will have the goodness to remember," he said, "that if there was any one thing which they, the clergy present, bishops, priests, and deacons, did not possess, it was the faculty of a judicial mind. They might be capital fellows in the pulpit, but very bad upon the Bench. They were always telling their own story, they were never contradicted, they were never picked to pieces, they were always taking their own party view, and they did not possess the judicial faculty such as the Final Court of Appeal ought to possess. There was nothing like calm, quiet men, laymen, trained in the law, accustomed to look at both sides of the question, to weigh the meaning of words and sentences, to examine old documents, and ascertain the intention and meaning of those who drew them up, there was nothing like a court composed of that kind of

men to settle disputed questions which came before the Court of Final Appeal."

These notes from opposite quarters in high places were echoed again and again. The reader of one paper said: "I am arguing for a large variety of ritual, and is it possible that I can find a stronger argument than by pointing to the extreme variety which in fact exists among the higher clergy of the Church of England?" "Concede this ritual," cried the reader of the next paper, "and the current of our Church's life-blood will be corrupted as by a poisonous taint. Nor will the expedient be doubtful in its issues and long in its duration. The 'scream will indeed be transient'; but it will be the last and bitter death-cry of an Establishment which God for long has signally blessed, and whose continuance for years to come was the object of our dearest hope and most fervent prayers." Behold how these churchmen love one another! Then, the Dean of Chester, as if to warn off all reformers, said of the Book of Common Prayer: "It has already been patched in successive revisions with patches inconsistent with one another, and seriously distorting the original fabric. If touched again, it will fall to pieces. We shall struggle on fairly well, if our amateurs keep their hands off our ritual and our ritualists." "We shall struggle on," is hardly a hopeful note; but, "if touched again, it will fall to pieces," is positively heart-rending. We do not deny the accuracy of the statement, but it is distressing.

What the culmination will be, the future only will reveal. It is clear to-day that two great forces are at work in the Church,— the same forces that are working everywhere, in relation to religion. Both may be wanted, like husk and kernel, but one only will ultimately feed the world. The priest, the ritual, the closely guarded bit of holy ground may have their uses, but they will have their day. Humanity sounds a deeper note than Church, man a more lasting note than priest; and to the supremacy of these we are moving on.

JOHN PAGE HOPPS.

REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE.

Cross Patch, and Other Stories. Adapted from the myths of Mother Goose. By Susan Coolidge. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1881. $1.50.

Stories that the little folks will read and find as moral as the prototypes from which they are improved, and not without a touch of their extravagance.

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Dissenting Minister. Edited by his friend, Reuben Shapscott. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1881.

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Garfield's Words. Suggestive passages from the public and private writings of James Abram Garfield. Compiled by William Ralston Balch. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1881.

The country's interest in everything relating to the late President's history and utterances justifies such a volume as this, which, indeed, contains many noble and characteristic sentences. But the impression will be general that the work of selection is hastily done, retaining many sayings that have no permanent significance; and also that Gen. Garfield's eloquence and power are better shown in almost any one of his complete addresses than in these detached passages. That could hardly be otherwise than true of one who, with no singular sententiousness nor surpassing genius, said, as he did, everything he attempted surprisingly well. The little memoir prefixed to the sayings is interesting, especially in the new evidence it furnishes of Gen. Garfield's intellectual energy, the breadth of his reading, and his literary diligence in the midst of public labors that most men find completely engrossing. The letter relating to the Odes of Horace and their bibliography is peculiarly impressive in this view. It is clear that this was a man who would have attained eminence as a scholar and an educator, had not his country claimed him for distinguished service in the field, and the successive public stations to which it called him.

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