On Thursday, June 14th, Sir William Joynson-Hicks 'reopened the debate.
He naturally had a good deal to say that was personal or had reference to his book. He proceeded on lines with which he has made us familiar. The militancy and narrowness of his views were only equalled by the intensity of his earnestness. Later Sir Thomas Inskip was a little less militant, a little less narrow, equally earnest and quite uncompromising upon Reservation even for the sick. Mr. Dunnico, a dissenting minister, spoke generously in favour of granting to the Church the freedom for which she asked. Lord Hugh Cecil made a speech which for readers at any rate kept the debate on a high plane in his arguments in favour of the Measure and in his appeal for unity. He urged with learning and intellectual force that the measure would not change doctrine, would promote peace, order, and an organized liberty which could never be in harmony with Popery or priestcraft. Mr. Churchill spoke as a Parlia- mentarian who would not take the responsibility of refusing the expressed desire of the Church, and he uttered a warning against thwarting, disrupting, and possibly disestablishing the greatest Protestant Church in Europe. - * *
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