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Owing to the pressure on our space we are obliged

to forego any notice of the Church Congress. We may say, however, that the ability of the papers read and the keen interest taken in the proceedings prove the continued vitality of the Congress. A Church that can show suoh intellectual gifts, and can carry on discussion, on the whole, with so much liberality and toleration, is a Church of which the nation may well be proud. Is there any other religious body in the world that can show within it so wide and liberal a spirit ? That the Church of England has many faults and failings we admit, but it has also in it the living spirit of true religion.