"THE TESTING OF CHURCH PRINCIPLES." (To THE Enema OF TICE
" SPECTATOR.") notice that your reviewer of last Saturday follows the example of a correspondent whose letter appeared on April 2G tit in treating my book, The Testing of Church Prin- ciples, as though it were intended to declare the real policy of the Life and Liberty Movement or of the general movement for the self-government of the Church. This misapprehension apparently arises, and certainly gains colour, from a sentence, quoted both by your reviewer and your correspondent, in which I unfortunately alluded to " the reform which we con- template." As a matter of fact, nearly the whole of my hook was written abroad at a time when I had barely heard of the Life and Liberty Movement, and the "we" in the sentence quoted was merely an author's loose plural, having no refer- ence to any specific movement of any kind at all. I am there- fore somewhat embarrassed by congratulations on my "candour" in revealing the supposed Machiavellian inten- tions of those for whom I was not speaking. Though I argued in favour of Church self-government, I was speaking far myself alone, and can claim no candour beyond that of a man who tries to say what he thinks.—I am, Sir, ike.,
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