27 SEPTEMBER 1890, Page 14

DR. LIDDON AND LIBERALISM.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If your correspondent, "An Oxford Fellow," wishes to know in what sense and upon what grounds Dr. Liddon was "a Liberal," may I recommend him to read the preface to Dr. Liddon's first published volume , of sermons (originally entitled "Some Words for God"), and the sermon on the text, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty "? Your correspondent will there find a complete justification for your remark that "Dr. Liddon was a Liberal,—first because he was a Churchman, and next because he was a Christian." I should be inclined to say, "first because he was a Christian, and next because he was a Churchman." But this change would probably not conciliate "An Oxford Fellow."—I am,