19 DECEMBER 1868, Page 3

We are glad to call attention to a striking letter

from Mr. Baldwin Brown, an eminent Independent minister, controverting our somewhat hasty remark last week on the advantages of the parochial system in giving the clergy a greater sense of duty to- wards all men, whether formally of their Church or not, than Dis- senting ministers are wont to feel. Mr. Brown's letter shows how little this expresses the higher aims of the Dissenting ministers of our own day, but there are so few Mr. Browns.