We have observed elsewhere on the alarm which Liberal Members
are beginning to express at the task undertaken by the Recorder of London at Mr. Lowe's request and with Mr. Disraeli's sanction, of introducing a Bill to apply to the enforcing of uniformity of doctrinal teaching, in the Established Church, the same summary process provided last Session for enforcing uniformity of ritual. Mr. Samuelson, M.P. for Banbury, in expressing, on Monday evening, his rather contemptuous estimate of the Act for the sake of which everything else was set aside last Session,--aii Act which, in his opinion, "would turn out as great a failure, if it did not lead to more disastrous results than the Ecclesiastical Titles Act,"—confessed that he held with Mr. Gladstone, that the Church could live as an Establishment only by com- prehension, whereas, next Session, it was proposed to move on from imposing uniformity in ritual to imposing uniformity in doctrine, and "gravely to say what truth is." Mr. Samuelson means, of course, that you cannot propose to enforce peremp- torily and sharply an elaborate and antiquated symbol, without discussing the very pertinent question, what falsehoods, or ap- pearances of falsehood, it may contain,—and that means an appeal to the House of Commons to say what truth is.
