We mentioned last week the appearance of the Indus- trial
Christian Fellowship upon the scene of the Coal Dispute. While we might cold-bloodedly doubt their worldly wisdom, we wholly admire their motives, courage and determination to do all they humanly could to seek peace. We have an undefined feeling that the dispute is tending at last towards peace, and, if we are right, the action of the Fellowship has, indirectly at any rate, greatly helped. At a black moment of apparent deadlock it brought in a new influence such as comes from action in a spirit that is above ordinary controversy. The country, too, is grateful, because it is weary of the un- reasoning and barren " slogans " on one side, as well as of the stone-wall attitude on the other. For instance, a speech like that of Sir Adam Nimmo last week was utterly unsatisfying, not because we presume to dispute his facts or desire to refute his conclusions from them, but because there was nothing new in it, and what we hunger for is a new departure to meet new conditions.
