CHANGES IN THE CHURCH.
(To ens EDITOR 07 Tne " SncTrroit."3 Sza,—I feel that, as the danger to the Church is extremely serious, we ought to begin preparing for it before the sear ends. I trust, therefore, that if a chance of doing so occurs you will not fail to make use of it. One point is that if we are to have sweeping reforms in the Church, such as are suggested on all sides, we should select those which will be likely to bring the greater part of believing and baptized Christians Into the pale of the National Church—certainly not those which would take us back to the thirteenth century, nor those which, as the Dean of St. Paul's contends, as reported in the paper of March 2nd, tend to deprive us of the " historical Christ." Nor should they be, as some impatient persons seem to wish, hurried and hustled through the Church Assemblies before they have been properly discussed. I do not know whether I shall live to take any part whatever in the discussion of Church reforms which w ill take place when the war is over; but I do trust that the Spectator will use its utmost influence to have every proposition for reform fully apprehended and as fully debated as possible by the people of this country, before a final conclusion is arrived at. The whole country will be affected by the decision come to.—I am,
Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral; formerly Hulsean Lecturer and Cambridge Preacher at the Chanel Royal, Whitehall.
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