New-York tribune., 1910-11-23

Fl - a-TSs-TNE aA-ITSSST0NE' Selected and ARRANGED
hy n. c. Lsthbury- Ntth poA go &c
ard illustrations: IN two Folu1lsss NJ 5s1,;ilsn
m Xiv 446; VII, 47o. The Maciiii''-A'
Company
In the long awaited volumes NO"
hand Mr.. Lathbury has chosen lIoiii
mass Of material some four hunoreu anu
sixrv letters. and has grouped 'iiein Ia
fifteen chapters around aspects Oh o'-
rznize6 Christianity, with which, ou'4i's
nublic life Of beyond Sixty years. MI
Gladstone had close concern VI lhS0e
,I,z, ,,,,,,,s 2 third is given to the relations
~ church and State. two chapters oeal
-..,, -b.s -r-,s~+arian movement and a
rhz-ta,, aniece is taken by the Sco1lsh
Fnjsca0al Church. eccleslastlcai paliV1i-
az and university reform, the oAloFo
elections. public education. the later CON
t-oversv with Rome and the controversy
with unhelief The closing sections are
occ,fnied with letters Of a more personal
eo-r. though the classification at pest is
not rigorous for subjects often overlap
md Mr.. Gladstone could write disserta-
tions 10 his dearest friends. In the chap
Ter urefaces NJ. Lathbury furnishes the
cf information 4 few letters that did
service in Lord Morley's biography are
reproduced. and several that appeared,
seemingly without authorization. in Pur-
cells Life OF Cardinal Manning" are
exhibited here. Among the subsidiary
papers. preserved IN an appendix Of over
q hundred pages are special studies Of
the Anglican settlements, g record Of
af~. Gladstone's seventeen appointments
70 the Episcopal bench, q memorandum
OF conversation with Pope Plus TX.
notes Of an interview with DR.. Dol
1inger. spiritual counsels 70 children,
and an arrangement of devotions. half in
Latin. for intervals Of the eucharistic
service
The institutional cast of Mr. Glad
stones religious sympathies is strongly
marked in the first document that Mr..
T.a1hhury draws upon The time is the
year 1929. a period when by Evangeli-
Gals generally "the pillar and ground Of
truth was conceived Of as our venerable
Establishment" and the writer, aged
twenty. is an undergraduate Al Oxford
The state of religion in the university,
he tells us, offers the most painful spec
tacle that il has ever fallen TO his lot to
behold The mystery Of spiritual fruit
lessness in so goOdly a vineyard is
oeepened by the consideration that Ok
ford is firmly hedged about against the
sncursion Of foes. We have no Papists,
no Socinians. no Dissenters OF any class.
Where then, are the fTuitsP" Consistent
Evangelical that ne IS. the young scholar
does not fail to read in the surrounding
desolauon some rebuke to his own lax
ness and also the summons TO a devo-
ton less constrained, "a looking unto
Jesus for redemption, unto the Spirit for
guidance" Whether away from the in
Siolable Oxford intrenchment, Papists
and Socinians and Dissenters OF all
glasses Gisport themselves or do battle, a
CJate church remains for Gladstone at
this stage a moral necessity. In 1885 he
IS writing TO Manning: u cannot but
feel persuaded the Establishment. even
as II IS al present, affords far more eff
cicnt instrumental aids for entering
. thoroughly into the mind and spirit Of
he ReGeemer than rival schools Of more
plausible preJension.' As late as his
Jventy-eigllth year, IL his book on 1.-The
state il It's Relation with the Church. -
he can still advocate the endowment Of
q single religion ard THE preference OF
this religion on the sole ground Of its
truth The purpose of parliamentary
life. he tells James L. Hope. resolves
3tself simply and wholly into the ques-
lion, VIII il ever afford him the means
under God Of rectifving the relations be
tween the Church and the State and give
him an opportunity Of setting forward
such d work?
By The time he is thirty Evangelical
ism and its idiom have been left behind,
snd M Gladstone has a clear and sim
ple and indestructible" basis for his
churchDlauship in a view OF the Church
Of England entirely and exclusively as
The Catholic Church: that is, as the
branch or section Of the Catholic Church
which IN It's territorial distribution has
become possessed Of this realm Sus-
ceprhle as ne was 70 the education Of
events. he came also TO see that abate-
Tnesits of ecclesiastical claims in the
s.ate would have 10 he made in favor Of
social justice. For one who had be
Iieved THAI the road from separation Of
Church and state 70 atheism was. If III
direct. yet bread and open the steady
progress of the democratic principle
hoded trouble, and II compelled search
sngs Of heart. What he inquiries, is his
Cuty when q. vote is 10 be taken in the
House On Sir Robert PeeI's proposal to
increase the grant for Maynooth Col
1cge2 Can he in conscience assist a meas
Bre providing for the financial support
q teaching fy and for Roman Catho-
lies? There is a similar question about
the Scots Kirk. only Il IS modified by the
remembrance that in this communion a
balance Of doctrine has been preserved.
Rnd under SIS unapostolic ministry the
Kirk has produced the fruits OF right
eousness. In such fashion does Glad
stone. in long letters to Manning. confide
his queries and not without the plea.
AS friend and as a minister OF God
arm sure you VIII lend what aid you
may toward compromising everything
1hat is not principle ana upholding all
that Is
Subject always 10 the higher obliga-
tion 10 secure the Church OF England