News of the Week T HE meeting of the Bishops, which
will begin next week at Lambeth, will be of extreme importance. Owing to the guidance which has already been given by the Archbishop of Canterbury, it is almost certain that there will be a large majority for a policy of demanding a wider spiritual freedom for the Church. Thanks also to the wisdom of the Archbishop, calm and ample con- sideration of this delicate but inevitable question is assured ; there will be no unbalanced attempt to take an unwilling Parliament by assault, or to rush the nation. The issue involves the Establishment, and most Church- men- (for the sake of the nation, perhaps, rather than for the sake of the Chtirch) desire that the Establishinent should be preserved. But the price to be paid might be too high. Patience and- determination to convince the country by a broad. campaign of reasoning and instruction will be necessary.
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