We much regret to record the resignation of the Bishop
of Truro (Dr. Wilkinson), on the score of health. And yet in a sense be sets a noble example by resigning duties which he feels that for a certain interval of time, which may extend to years, he cannot adequately perform. The doctors, he says, " while confident that, please God, my health will be com- pletely restored, are unable to say how soon this recovery is likely to be accomplished. Remembering, therefore, how long I have been obliged to tax your patience, I have come to the conclusion that I ought no longer to attempt a work with which I am not able really to grapple, and have placed my resignation in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury." That seems to us the true humility. Ordinarily, it appears to be very difficult for Bishops, though they always depreciate their own services, to realise that it matters far less who the individual occupant of a See may be, than it matters whether he is really able to give his whole heart to the discharge of his duties,—which an invalid, with the doctors always remon- strating against overwork, cannot possibly achieve. Barring health, no one could have been better fitted for his work than the Bishop of Truro.
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