We have not forgiven Mr. Hughes yet for leaving Lambeth
to become a preserve for rich candidates, but we congratulate him heartily on his return for Frome. It was a great struggle, not only between men and masters, but between creeds, the Broad Church thrashing the Ritualists and Evangelicals in open fight. The Ritualists fought fairly, though Mr. Bennett ought to have published Serjeant Sleigh's promise to resist any change in Church discipline; but the Recordites behaved, it is said, most discreditably. What will the Record say when it hears that its followers sent in a written apology to Mr. Bennett for venturing to prosecute him, and subscribed £100 to his " semi-Romish " church. Simeon would have suffered martyrdom before he would have done such a thing, even for the sake of an Establishment.
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