The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
remained. It was agony for his wife

Who had to sit through long servic
 With her venerable husband so strange
 iy adorned OH the crown of his whit
 mead, but Dean Stanley himself neither
 Knew the glove was there nor becam,
 animated enough to shake it off Can on Westcott was another preacher o.
 the unimpassioned kind. Late in life
 he was made Bishop of Durham He
 too, is now, like Dean Stanley, with the
 silent majority. but Canon Farrar, by
 Jar the best preacher of the three-a
 man of splendid diction and fine ora.
 torical gifts-is still living. In rath-
 CT feeble old age he abides his time
 and does his work as Dean of Canter-
 bury.
 The pulpits of London are manned
 now by new generation, and the new
 men, being young, are bringing forth
 out of the treasury of their knowledge,
 not the old thread worn notions of the
 fathers, but those new ideas which are
 born in the need of new times. It is
 refreshing to find as Bishop of London
 man not yet in middle life whose
 ideas and manners are about as uncon-
 Ventional, as virile, and as well suited
 to the times as were those of the early
 circuit rider on the American prairies.
 The exaltation to high place of men
 like this not only shows that the
 Church of England has undergone great
 changes, but it presages increasing
 change, if not a complete revolution, in the time to come. If, however, the
 character of the new metropolitan bish-
 of be sign of altered times and
 guarantee of progress, what shall be
 said of the new Canon of West Mins-
 ter Abbey? After hearing him that memorable Sunday one can only answer this question by saying that Canon Hensley Henson is not merely a sign of progress, but he is the embodiment of progress, for ideas more revolutionary than those he vehemently advocated in Westminster Abbey have perhaps never been hurled against the practices of any church since Luther thundered against Rome at Wittenburg
 What made me intensely eager to hear this up-to- date apostle of light and leading was a report of his revolu- tionary utterances of the Sunday be- fore. Has not the time fully come" he inquired, when we should ask in all earnestness whether the spiritual isola- tfons of the Church of England can be custained by valid and sufficient req sons? For my part" he went on, q declare to you solemnly that the frank recognition Of the ordered and orthodox Protestant churches Is demanded of us by irresistible condesiertions of reason, of prudence, of religion" To realize what an utterance of this kind means when it comes from a Canon of the Es- tablished church and is illuminated by him grom so exalted pedestal as the pulpit of Westminster Abbey, 1t must be borne in mind that the religious peo- pie of England are about evenly divi- ded between the State church and what are now called Free churches. But the | State church, though it attracts no | more worshippers, has decided advan- tage over the others in a social way and | also in the rich endowments and emol- uments that belong to 1t. This, howev- ar, the Free churches do not much trouble about. They are of course, op- posed on principle to an ecclesiastical body being supported by the state, but this is not by any means their chief ground of complaint.
 What specially rasps non -conformists md dissenters is that this State church should so arrogantly claim to be the )nly church. The other denominations t regards merely as sects or societies. It's claim is that the ministers of these rec churches are not ministers in the rue sense, because they have never had Episcopal hands laid upon them, and tbix. fnIl ;,,or to Iyo ogic of the church, that these men, in- luding such shining lights as Spur ,eon, Parker, Clifford, Guinness Rogers nd F. B. Meyer-in fact the whole lot f them not of the Establishment-can lot validly administer either baptism or he Lords Supper. From this, too, ollows that attitude of the State hurch toward the other churches which xcludes their ministers from it's pull its and forbids it's own ministers to reach at a regular service in any non onformist pulpit. To put it in a nut he'll, the Episcopal Jews of the Church England have no dealings ecclesias- cally with the Episcopal Samari- ms of Non- Conformity, and 1t is gainst this arrogance that Canon Hem on has been laundering for several undays past and will continue to thun- l CT, should the powers that be not s- nee him, in a series of sermons reach lg to the end of December. 2 In truth, however, one can hardly say :. lat Canon Henson thunders His is more like the lightning :. hicf smashes things than the thunder / hich only rattles them. He has = ther weak voice, but he puts into it |, l his strength and backs up his words n ith intensely emphatic gesturing. In :, lild he is spare-most reformers are o. the lean, hungry kind. He cannot be N ore than forty, yet his thin face has :, e intellectual lines of matured ., holar and also the easily recognized " scetic look. One could imagine in Y ting under him that another Savan- ola had appeared, and I did that day e most literally ''sit under him." for, 4, irving late, yet being determined to ', t within good hearing range, I was a,' rmitted to sit on the steps of the lec- ,r IS, which, of course, is within wink 4. 3 distance of both the pulpit and the T, rail. Perhaps the free and = sy occupation of the reading desk ~ at day by correspondent was pro- le ne prophecy of how, should Canon ol ~, ,nsOn succeed in his crusade against | "