Our Established Church, by the Rev. Morris Fuller, M.A. (Pickering)
; England's Inheritance in her Church, by the Rev. William Webb, B.A. (Seeleys.)—In these two volumes we have pretty nearly every argument that can be advanced in favour of an Esta- blished Church. The two authors regard their subject from somewhat different points of view, and bring to it somewhat different prepos- sessions, Mr. Fuller being, we take it, the more distinctly Anglican of the two. Again, Mr. Webb's treatment is more historical than that adopted by Mr. Fuller. He gives a sketch of the action of the ecclesiastical body in England, and makes out that its tendency has not been unfavourable to liberty and good government. Mr. Fuller, on the other band, deals more directly with present facts. The common objection to an Establishment, its immobility, its helpless- ness, the difficulty, it may almost be said the impossibility, of bringing it into action, are energetically met. In fact, the whole question is very carefully argued out. The author is a controversialist of no small power. If any one feels the ambition or encounters the duty of meeting Liberationists on a platform, he cannot do better than prepare himself by a careful perusal of Mr. Fuller's Our Established Church.
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