"Churchmen in Council" do not seem to us to have
madevery much of their deliberations. They have got as far as saying that they wish the Church to act like a living Church, and to give her own advice, through her own proper Houses of Convocation in both the Provinces, to Parliament as to how to get out of the many scandals and quarrels caused by the different interpreta- tions of the Ornaments Rubric ; but they will not even venture so far as to suggest to the Convocations of the two Provinces what the best remedy would be. The editor of the Guardian neatly remarks on "Churchmen in Council's" much cry and little wool :—" To compare ecclesiastical things with secular, Churchmen in Council' are in the position of an association which should propose to petition Parliament to settle the Irish Question without saying whether it wished that settlement to take the shape of Home-rule or maintenance of the Union. For our own part, we should prefer to know beforehand what it is that we are asking for." But "Churchmen in Council" cannot bear to be so presumptuous as to prompt Convocation. They want to elicit a response, not to suggest it. If the two Convocations should neutralise each other, "Churchmen in Council" would, we presume, humbly express their gratitude.
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