LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MR. GLADSTONE AND CHURCH DEFENCE.
Pro THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:i Sin,-11 you take the extract which you quote from the Times with its context, you will find that Mr. Gladstone, in his Dalkeith speech, was comparing two " Church Defence Societies," one Scotch, the other English. There are two, and only two, Societies which bear that name. And Mr. Glad- stone was right in saying that they are practically Tory organisations. They exclude—the English " Church Defence Society" explicitly—defence of anything but the loaves and fishes, temporal emoluments and privileges. To my mind,. this is, quite apart from politics, a degrading policy for [Mr. Gladstone certainly did not thus limit his attack. The effect of it was to discourage all associations in defence of the Establishment. —En. Spectator.]
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