It is not very usual, though far from unique, for
a layman to be chosen chairman of a body like the Baptist Union. It is still less usual for a distinguished lawyer to figure in that position, and perhaps less usual still for a chairman with such antecedents to make his presidential address so definitely spiritual in tone as that delivered by Mr. C. T. Le Quesne, K.C., on Monday. Mr. Le Quesne, a Jerseyman who married a daughter of that well-known Baptist sur- geon Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, reverted to the old fundamental evan- gelical message that if men were to change society, above all if they were to turn the terrifying discoveries of modern science to beneficent rather than destructive ends and keep them under safe. control, the first essential was that they should be changed themselves. The attempt to devise some newer and better gospel than that has met with small success, and it is in some ways an advantage that the fact
should be proclaimed by a working layman.
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