A Great Churchman The retirement of Dr. Inge from. the
Deanery of St. Paul's, which he has held since 1911, must be regarded as virtually an accomplished fact with the delivery of his farewell sermon last Sunday. A notable figure passes, not indeed from the active service of the Church of England, for ne one so effective with his pen as Dean Inge will fail to exerciSe a continuing influence even from a ThaMes-side village, but from service in one of the Church's chief offices. As his address at the Modern. Churchmen's Conference last week showed, he has always combined an essentially progressive outlook with a firm hold on the fundamental tenets of the faith he professes, and both his sermons and his writings, based as they are on. a profound -scholarship, have done much to diSpel the doubts of many who found it hard to reconcile modern thought with ancient creeds. Politi- cally hiS attitude is fir more conservative, and not all the admirers of his religious writing would pay the Same homage to his secular. An appreciation of Dean Inge as a great Churchman, from the pen of his successor, the present Dean of Exeter, will appear in an early issue of The Spectator. * * * *
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