Although the Bishop is careful to use the language of
the rubrics in his open letter, the general effect of it is too savage. He complains of the revival of mediaeval Sacramental teaching, but his language may be objected to on similar grounds—it is mediaeval in fierceness. After all, the Reformation definitions of the consecration of the bread and wine were purposely wide. We have written in a leading article on the collision between the teaching of the Bishop of Birmingham and that of the Anglo-Catholics. We believe that no one can render a greater service to doubting laymen than the Bishop ' of Birmingham can, 'but they will not be helped nearly as much as they might be if he employs a harshness which, in effect, will be as exclusive as the extreme sacerdotalists wish their own system to be. The Dean of St. Paul's, who has received from Canon Bullock-Webster a copy of the protest read in St. Paul's. last Sunday, has answered that as Canon Bullock-Webster has had the impertinence" to write to him he must have a full apology for the• "scandalous and disgraceful" act of " brawling " in the Cathedral before he can enter into further communica- tions.
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