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consummated. IL had indeed prelndes aud
picket skirmishes which almost amounted to yicto-
ries. The trial Of the Bssdpsts aud Reviewers which
decided that it not necessary that English cler
gymen should believe in eternal punishments-whe
as the epgram of the Inns ram Chancellor WestbuTy
" dismissed hell with costs 1.-THE defeat of the
peated attempts to depOse Colenso for his prefer
ence of arithmetic and geology to the Biblical
records, were indeed of great Importance Bot there
is very wide gap, especially in England, between
Ousting a man when he is in, and deliberately put
ting him IN when he is out Few, for instance,
would think of establishing the English Church
just it is If it did not already exist Consequent
ly when Mr.. Gladstone appointed one Of the Es-
saysts and Reviewers with conversational curses
fresh upon him, to of the Oldest sees. and tho
very largest in England, it was generally recog-
nzed as great positive victory for the heresy that
claims the right to remain in the Church, and If
it can assimilate it, 1t is true DR.. Temple was the
least Objectionable of the Essaysts; it was under
stood that he did not go so far as Rowland Williams
and Baden Powell; but he recognized their right to
disprove miracles and exalt science, and deny the
nfalbility of the Bible under the protection of the
Church; and so the High Church and the Hard
Church saw in his appointment just what Slavery
saw in the election of so meager a representative
of Repubcansm as Mr.. Banks TO be Speaker al
Washington. But this comparison must not be
pressed far il is only in being The thin edge Of
the wedge that Temple resembles Banks. There is
a notion abroad that Broad Church clergyman IS
in some degree q humbug; that he is a hereto who
does not believe in the Church. but docs believe in
its emolumonts and promotions, and for these
mains in it, While l believe that it would better
subserve tho interests of truth if the Broad Church
would assume Independent basis / know too
many honorable and self-sacrifcing clergymen and
laymen of that wing to believe that they dshon-
estly remaining in the Church. The fact is the Oar
win theory alone explain the Broad Church
man, and that theory explains it thus. With a
vast historical religious establishment which in the
course of generations has called about it immense
temporal and political interests, the English people
have been transported by steam, newspapers and
science far away from the ideas which produced
their Church. Wishing to retain the Establishment
and the new civilization at and the time,
they have been long clamorlng for set of men in
geniOus enough to harmonic and retain the two.
They have offered the highest rewards for preach
ers skllful enough 10 link together Huxley and
Moses, Telegraphy and the Thirty-nne Articles.
And after generations of natural selection supply
has answered their demand. The strange being has
| been produced his type is the Broad Churchman
he hob-nobs with Tyndall and sheds tears over the
Litany; he subscribes to defend Mr.. Benefits right
TO his candles, and Mr. Voyseys right to his Radi-
cal Unitariansm in the same Church. Curious, If
you please, but not necessarily ungenuine. any moro
than the bat which scandaized tho mice on one
hand and the birds on the other.
But this is not all When the choir-gates of West
Minister Abbey were thrown open, and our straining
eyes, looking down the vista, caught sight OF the
procession, with the Bishop of Exeter ut its
center-BishOps 10 right of him. Registrars OF the
nation to left of him-advaucing toward the venera
bic sacrarium to of one end of that process
sion reached hack into the Sixth Century AT its
further end stood the monk Augustine, on the sea-
J shore near Canterbury, pleading with King Ethel
bert Join yourself to US. Ally your Saxon King
dom and your idOGtTous subjects with Christianity
! Let us be the Church of your people" Ethelbert
Welded. Church and State became one; the bargain
| was cOnsummated For ages the Church got the
whole benefit of the contract. Augustine, first Arch
bishop of Canterbury, ruled England from throne
and the people toed to contribute to the pendor of
himself and his successors. But the then superst-
! tious Anglo-Saxon mind had a career before it,
Lyell and Tyndal and Carlyle were folded up IN IT,
The Church, when it made an alliance with this
nation no more dreamed of these men than Slavery
when it cemented the American Union and proudly
ruled it, dreamed of Garrison and Phillips and Lin
coin in the distance. But now, slowly enough, the
time has arrived when the Saxon peOple-the other
party to the bargaln-adyance to claim their side of
it, They come with their science their press their
progress. SO it was that thirty generations of En-
gllsh culture walked with Bishop Temple. His foot
step on the Abbey floor was light but TO the evan
gelical it rs heavy the fatal tread of the
statue of the Commentators in Don Giovanni, and
like him it said: John, you have asked me TO sup
per- and | have comew The Church had sought the
alliance of the Saxon race, and here it is.
Tha outc 81 nj m ms tqr
rible. Loud talk of canceling the old bargain, Of
secession, and all that came first; but it soon ap-
peared that much as indignant Bishops desire to
have the Church reflect only their own opinions,
they still desire to keep their fat lvings and
their seats in the House of Lords Then there
the moaning and whining stage. Good Broad
Church deliver us! Good Temple have mercy on
us! Only ,ay YOU disagree, with the Essays and Re
riqrs! Olly repeat our Shibbolethp All Of which
simply ne mt what the South meant when, after tho
war; il b.sought The North to hand over It's victory
10 Slavery. Int Dr. Temple knew what struggle he
represented. lie felt that he not his own. So
10 the whining duplicating crowd of clergymen, to
the brow beating Bishops. he preserved his eloquent
silence; and ,ha silence has gone through England
Ike thdllerbolt The effect of il cannot be esti-
mated by thls generation. OF one thing, however,
We may be certain the English Church will hence
forth absorb nearly all of the ability and scholarship
in this country which can still manage 10 cab itself
Christian. The Average Unitarianism can by no
means compete with it for the free.thinking youth
any longer When tho old historic home of tho
Church az Westminster can find its master in Dean
Stanley, and consecrate DR.. Temple 'ho occupation
of ordinary liberal sects is gone. Mr. Voysey being
preciptate. may be Topped of at one end TO comren-
safe for the extirguishment of Dr. Aaconochies
candles az the other but the plain fact OF to-day is
that England has what nine-tenths Of Christendom
LolJ q, L.. h. .ti col notionol Church.