The Bishop of Durham delivered a most impressive charge to
his clergy on Thursday. Dr. Westcott is deeply impressed with the moral necessity of aiming at any policy which will have the effect of bringing the different layers of society in England into more cordial relations with each other, and, so far as may be, of equalising the moral condition of the various classes. " We should not seek," he said, " to equalise material riches, but to hallow large means by the sense of large responsi- bility ; not to palliate the effects of poverty, but to remove the causes of it ; not to dispense with strenuous and even painful effort, but to provide that labour in every form should be made the discipline of noble character." Nothing could be more truly and finely said ; but will any kind of institutional change even tend to effect this? Is it not simply the true aim of the Church to bring employers and employed alike to a deep sense of their mutual responsibilities and duties ?
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