In reference to our remark last week that in an
elaborate defence of the Conservative Oxford policy about Dr. Stanley's select preachership, a member of the minority had pleaded that Oxford ought not to beturned into a " battlefield of beliefs," we have received another letter from a member of the majority, assuring us that in all the sermons which Dr. Stanley has ever preached in the Uni- versity pulpit there is not one, as far as our correspondent's re- collection can be trusted, which was not preached in the interests of Christian charity,—not one " which could disturb the faith of the most simple-minded of his audience." Indeed, he adds, "I have heard that one of the main charges brought against his sermons is that he is always exalting charity at the expense of faith." On the other hand, Dr. Pasey's sermons in the University pulpit often "bristle with controversy," and indeed all who do not wish to see the University pulpit a "battlefield of beliefs" will earnestly ask for such select preachers as the Dean of Westminster, in preference to the controvewillists of the High- Church party. Otherwise, the only way to keep the University pulpit from being a " battlefield of beliefs" would be to hand it over bodily to the High-Church school, and prevent fighting only by getting rid of the enemy.
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