The Jubilee Church Congress opened on Tuesday at Cambridge, where
the first Congress met in 1861. Services were held at Ely Cathedral and at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge. At Ely the Archbishop of York preached on the growth of the corporate life of the Church. Speaking of the relations of the State and the Church, the Arch- bishop said :-
" If, following not the spirit of the Constitution, but precedents and practices which began when the political and religious stand- point was very different, and in which the Church in the days of its corporate lifelessness acquiesced, the State in Parliament or Court of Law were to attempt without consulting the Church to decide its doctrine or modes of worship, or were to compel its ministers to obey in their spiritual office a law of the State which was inconsistent with the laws of the Church, or were to dictate to the Church the conditions on which it should admit persons to its own Communion, then certainly claims would be asserted which no self-respecting Church could acknowledge."
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