The Bishop of Capetown has, we believe, departed at last,
and 'with him his schismatic auxiliary, Mr. Macrorie, still only in the un- developed episcopal germ, having obtained no mandate to conse- -crate in the United Kingdom. Some of the Conservative party assert that the Government were entirely favourable to his consecration ; .still, as a matter of fact, they did not grant the mandate, which does not look as if they had been excessively desirous to do so. On Tues- -day four solemn farewell services were held in St. Lawrence's and -St. Mary Magdalen's, Gresham Street, City, Mr. Macrorie and the Bishop of Capetown both preaching, the one in the after- moon, the other in the evening. Mr. Maerorie's sermon seems to have been the most remarkable. He compared Dr. Gray to St. Paul going forth to a missionary field after the Council of -Jerusalem, than which, said Mr. Macrorie, the Pan-Anglican Synod of last year was "not less important." In fact, the ques- tions decided at the Council of Jerusalem "sank into insigni- ficance,"—so we understand the report of Mr. Macrorie's sermon,—compared with those discussed at the Pan-Anglican Syno71, in which the Bishop of Capetown took part. The cause in which the Bishop was engaged was "not less important" than that for which St. Paul went forth. In short, the tendency of the sermon was, undoubtedly, to speak of the very unscrupulous partizan who is to consecrate Mr. Macrorie to his schismatic work, as a second St. Paul. The only likeness we can see is rather a difference than a likeness. St. Paul gave his only rebellious Church an alternative : "Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and the spirit of -meekness ?" Dr. Gray gives none. He is all "rod." And his rod and staff " comfort " no one. Luckily they are not very • formidable weapons.
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