21 DECEMBER 1872, Page 3

We have received a very long letter, for which we

regret that we cannot find room, from " A Lay Member of the Minority " in the Oxford Convocation, of which the main view is that Oxford should not be a" battlefield of beliefs," but a place of at least tolerably consistent religious teaching. We take it that the friends of such a view should abandon Oxford. It has long ceased to be and can never be again a place of tolerably consistent religious teaching, unless, at least, Dean Stanley and Dean Goulburn are held to be tolerably consistent, which is precisely what, by this party, they

are denied to be. In a place where all shades of faith are enforced by both book and conversation, the effort to keep the University pulpit consistent must be held to be childish, if sincere.