7 SEPTEMBER 1867, Page 22

A Plea for Union and Toleration. A Sermon preached at

St. Mary's,. Haggerstone, on Thursday, Jane 27, 1867: By the Rev. John Oakley,

Perpetual Curate of St. Saviour's, Hoxton. (London: 0. Beckett and Sons. 1867.)—This is a wise, candid, and able discourse. The author seem. thoroughly to understand that the Church of England is-not a com- promise, but a comprehension, and to believe that behind the single line of a profound common faith in God the Father, as revealed in Christ the Lord and Elder Brother, there is room for a wide diversity of dogmatic conception. Mr. Oakley contends manfully for "the most ungrudging charity, the most cordial sympathy, the most real liberty, and the most unlimited toleration."