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protesting against the confirmation of the newly appointed archbishop on the ground that he held to the doctrine of evolution.
 The action of Mir Brownjohn crvatcd a great sensation, and when the conarcga- ton assembled had recovered somewhat from their astonishment many persons stood upon their seats and hootcd and groaned at the protesting clergyman for some timo.
 Maclagan refused to entertain the protest, whereupon Mir Brownjohn loft the church amid the groans of tho audience The en- citeraent then subsided and the services proceeded.
 The appointment of Dr. Temple to the archbishopric of Canterbury crowned cArocr of singular variety. If the average churchman had been told % years ago that Dr. Temple would live to sit In the chair of St Augustine, ho would have laughed the teller to scorn. Nothing sccm- cd then moro improbable than that one of the authors of Essays and Reviews" should, by tho assent of churchmcn in general, become archbishop of Canterbury. The unexpected, however, happened.
 The Sensation st the Time.
 But while Dr. Temples own essay was comparatively harmless. tho book itsclf was In those days (isbs.60 doomed sub versive of the faith Largely owing to the activity of Bishop Samuel wilborforce. Archdeacon Denison and the moro advano- cd ohurchmen. storm of indignation was raised. Two of tho cssaylsts woro brought before the court of arches, and when Dr. Temple, in 1869, was appointed to the scs of Exeter, his election was contested. and Episcopal protests against his consecration were lodged. 10 Is only fair to say that some of those who joined most fcrvcntly in the "heresy hunt" of those days are now his most willing colleagues
 The volume entitled Essays and Re- views was published In iS60 The essays and the contributors were seven in num- Der, and as the preface set forth, each au. thor was responsible only for his own work. Three of the authors-Rowland Williams, H. R. Wilson and Benjamin Jowott-wcro already known as broad churehmcn, but it Is probable that the work would have obtained little notoricty had 1t not been for two criticisms upon it The first of these. which has been attribu- ted to Mir, Frederick Harrison, appeared In the Westminster Review and tauntcd the authors with being rationalists and yet remaining churchmen. Tho second came from Bishop Milberforce. who, first In . charge to tho clergy and then in an article in Tho Quarterly Review, condemned the articles and pronounced it impossible that their authors could honestly remain in the church The storm became horco, and two of the cssayists were haiod before the court of arches and condemned. They, however, appealed to the privy council and with perfect success Inc storm fends were not appeased, and at every step In Dr. Temples career they have broken out afrcsh.
 His confirmation 10 the hishoprio of Exeter was bitterly opposed, and when he was called to London to follow Bishop Jackson there were only n few dissentionts That some still remain who have not for gotten those early expressions of opinion is evidenced by the protest of the Rev. Ed- ward Brownjohn. Mir. Brownjohn is n representative of the evangelical organi- zation known as the Church association. which some six years ago made an unsuo- cessful attack upon Dr. King, bishop of Lincoln, accusing him of contraycntion of the statutes of the Church of England with regard to certain observanoes Dr. King is the chief of the so called high church movement, as nr. Temple Is the representative broad churchman.