IE ENGLISH CHURCH. By Bishop J. E. C. Weldon. der
and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.)-Bishop Welldon's book le present problems and future development of the Church be read with considerable interest, even by those who may exception to some hard sayings here and there. He that the scarcity of candidates for orders is due ly " to the decadence of spirituality in the nation and in some degree to the alienation of the Church in her and endeavours from the national life." He main- that the clergy have lost respect " because they or some em have set an example of disobedience to the law." reprobates the offenders in severe terms and urges the ops to stand together and insist, as a united episcopate, le observance of ecclesiastical law. " The need of the rch is that the episcopate should speak with one voice. that voice be clear and strong, and the Church may yet ved." He is all for " a friendly sympathetic under- ding " with the Noncomformists, but he cannot see his to abandon episcopal ordination as a pre-requisite for reommimion and reunion save, perhaps, in exceptional for Presbyterian ministers. His treatment of this e is particularly clear and moderate. His views on er Book revision are liberal ; he would, for instance, to use the Athanasian Creed, remarking that in the age in It it was written " the habit of consigning theological !tents to everlasting perdition was a commonplace of ogical controversy." He concludes with a vision of the rch of the future in which everything will be simplified liheralized-with the Apostles' Creed as the minimum of and less disputation about ceremony and ritual, " nay, about episcopacy itself." Bishop Welldon's optimism perb. But we are bound to add that it derives little rt from Church history for the past two thousand years. HE OIL WAR. By Anton Mohr. With an Introduction Hartley Withers. (Martin Hopkinson. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. r, who is attached to Oslo University, has produced a readable account of the development of the oil fuel stry. James Young distilled mineral oil from shale in . Stohwasser invented a lamp to burn mineral oil in
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