We note with pleasure that a representative meeting of members
of various denominations was held in the Council Chamber at Salisbury on Tuesday night to further the cause of Christian union. Addresses were given by Dean Boyle and clergymen from the Methodist, Congregational, and Baptist bodies in the town. The Bishop of Salisbury, in closing the meeting, said he was not there at that moment with any definite plan for reunion, but such movements ought to tend in that direction ultimately. " He believed that the whole counsel of God in this matter would not be revealed to any portion of His people, however large, while it was separated in spirit from the rest; but when the different parts were brought into touch and moral and spiritual harmony by such meetings as this and by similar action elsewhere, they might expect an outpouring of the spirit of wisdom and understand- ing, as well as of holiness and joy, upon the whole Church which would lead it to a reunion." This truly spiritual utter- ance shows a very different temper from that exhibited in a thesis on "Dissent," put forth, we regret to say, by a clergy- man of the Church of England, which was noticed in our literary columns last week.
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