Archdeacon Denison's heart is moved within him at the pre-
sent state of ecclesiastical things in the United Kingdom, and he has just been delivering his soul, in a charge to the clergy of Taunton, on the subject. He is wroth that the Church of the State should be required to be " not the Church of the truth, but the Church of the majority," — whence it is evident that he must consider the Church of Scotland an idolatrous one, and must be moved with indignation that we do not establish—at the expense of the Ilindoos, who believe our truth to be falsehood,—a " Church of the truth " in India. The destruction of Church-Rates is another case of " a wrong deed with a fine name." Mr. Coleridge's Bill is an attempt " to unchriatianize the Universities." The Venerable Archdeacon is strongly in favour of the purely denominational Universities just proposed for Ireland. He would have a Baptist University, a Unitarian University, a Wesleyan University, a Conitist Univer- sity, and so forth. In a word, the Universitas should be, in his view, not that which includes all learning, but that which includes only one opinion.
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