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THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—. paragraphs have lately appeared, in
your columns, within a very few days of each other,
which suggest matter for the gravest and most
anxious reflection.
The one is a document signed by every English
prelate_ 'without exception, censuring a possibly
very censurable volume. The authors of volume
are branded, so far as the expressed opinion of tLe
whole bench of bishops can brand them, with nut
only holding and teachieg erroneous opinions, but
with occupying an immoral and indefensible posi-
tion, if not legally, yet as clergymen and gentle-
men.

The other is a statement in your impression of
yesterday, that one of the most influential and best
known of these prelates, himself' hut recently trans-
ferred to a seat of great wealth and unusual patron-
age, has presented the very first piece of valuable
preferment which has fallen into his hands to his
own son-in-law and domestic chaplain. No one
who knows the gentleman in question would wil-
lingly say a word against him. He is allowed to
be a young man of blameless character and plea-
sant address • but his hest friends would not allege
in his behalf any one intellectual or theological
attainment of any kind, or any special zeal or
strength of character. He is totally unknown in
the diocess of Durham; he has been but a short
time in orders, and his experience bf parochial work
has proportionably been limited and scanty.
Surely the Bishop of Durham might have chosen
abetter moment to drive the sharp sword of nepotism
into the vitals of his Church. She needs her life
blood sadly, and cannot afford to spill it thus.
What will be the effect of such an act at such a
moment on the minds of those who are a few, a very
few years younger than the Bishop's fortunate chap-
lain ? The young men at the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge are no strangers to the questions
agitated in the volume which has just been con-
demned. The whole future destiny of not a few
.depends on the answers which can be given by or
for them to the questions which are there stirred.
And what do they now see? On the one hand
they see men for some of whom they care nothing,
and from whose views they shrink, for some of whom
they feel an entire and absorbing veneration, classed
together by the leaders of their Church in one indis-
criminate and almost scornful condemnation. On
the other, they see one after another of those who
occupy this high place, and speak thus in the lan-
guage of authority, falling victims to the one vice
which the young utterly despise—the one sin for
which they make no allowance—,that of selfish
greed.
As the undergraduate of 1861 looks round him,
he sees the most earnest and the most gifted of those
who are a little his senior, hesitating about fulfill-
ing the aim of his life by taking orders ; and as this
and that phase of intellectual growth passes over
himself, he feels bewildered at announcements liko
that made by a well-known bishop last summer,
that the "smallest taint of neology would be fatal
to any candidate for orders."

On the other hand he sees the least gifted, the
least thoughtful, in more than one case the least
respected of his contemporaries, passing almost in
a moment from the aimless, well-dressed undergra-
duate, whose answers at lecture were the College
joke, into the favoured protege, the domestic, and,
as has been more ;than once lately the case, the
examing chaplain of this and that powerful bishop,
and the legitimate heir to the comfortable rectory
for which hardworking incumbents have toiled for
years in vain.

This is not the first occasion on which the very
College which is looked on as the stronghold of a
questioning rationalism hhs had its weak faith
scandalised by these rapid and almost grotesque
transformations.
The Church of England and the Christianity of
England may be approaching a time of trial, and
sifting, and difficulty. The friends of both might
wish these acts of nepotism to be passed over with
a sigh or a groan. But your columns carry them far
and wide, and wherever they are read there will be
a sneer at the Church whose rulers condemn their
brethren readily enough—condemn them unheard,
unwarned, on the strength of an accusation
which they do not trouble themselves to
produce, and then are reported, with the ink scarcely
dry with which they signed their names, to have
been guilty, in one of their representative members,
of grasping at the Church's property with a haste
almost sordid, of treating what has been just com-
mitted to one of their body with solemn vows and
a solemn service as a matter of mere loot, a means
of mere family enrichment. —Your obedient set-
vant, OXONIENSIS.
Feb. 21.

" ESSAYS AND REVIEW S."

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—A letter which appeared in the Times of
yesterday on the subject of " Essays and Reviews,"
written by one who signed himself " A Cambridge
Graduate," is a striking contrast in its fairness anti
the desire it vinces to have each of the essays
judged by in individual merits, to the angry
wholesale denunciations of them which may be
found in some of our religious newspapers. What,
according to the writer of this letter, is wanted as
an antidote to some of the essays is a reply which
shall not be merely a refutation of errors, but a de-
finition of truths perverted or neglected.
Now, I cannot help asking you to allow me to
bring before your readers—to those of them who
are interested in theological questions—how, in
some degree, a refutation of the kind alluded to
already exists—how, in reference at least to the
rationalistic views of the Old Testament history
which some passages in the essays seem to encou-
rage, it exists in such works as that of the Rev. F.
D. Maurice " On the Kings and Prophets of the Old
Testament," and in some of the " Sermons" of the
late Rev. F. Robertson. For, surely, the best refu-
tation of such views, which would make the stories
of the Old Testament mere myths and legends of
the past, is to make us feel the force and meaning
which these stories possess for us Englishmen of
the present day; to make us look on the miracles
of the Old Testament, not as mere marvels of a by-
gone age, but as glimpses of a Divine government.
which, though under different circumstances and
in a different way, is as really and truly being car-
ried on in our own age; and this is the view to
which one is led by the study of the works
alluded to, _ _

Surely, then, great good will be effected out of
the evil which some of the Essays and Reviews
are likely to occasion, if they are the cause of our
divines writing refutations of them conceived in
the spirit of such works, or if they lead our young
students to the perusal of such works. Above all
will great good arise out of the evil if both are led
to a more calm, thoughtful, earnest attention to
that study of which two*, at least, of the much
maligned writers of the essays remind us that it is
the great work of our day—l mean the study of
the Bible.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servant,
Feb. 21.

As OXFORD GRADUATE.
*Dr. Temple and Professor Jowett.

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