Sts,—Dr. Edwyn Bevan has answered by anticipation Colonel Mozley's letter
in the last number of The Spectator by pointing out the necessity for every community or society to have certain rules or Principles which its members must accept if they wish to remain as.members. There is no outward necessity for them to accept those Principles if they remain outside the society, nor are they compelled to loin the society. But if they choose to remain without, can they complain of the rules which the society makes for its own members?
The difficulty is that Colonel Mozley and those who think with him reject the dear New Testament teaching that there is one body with many members, one vine with many branches, all united with One another and with Our Lord; and while claiming the name of Christians claim also to be outside the body, a conception unknown t°. the New Testament. Colonel Mozley speaks indeed of "A fellow- 81111:1 which is pictured in the words and deeds of Jesus," but not in aU of them, only in those which each man chooses.
Is this the faith which overcometh the world?
I venture to think that most of as, laity no less than' clergy, will it-echo St. John's ivords, "Who is he that overcometh the world, but ethat believeth that Jesus is the Son of God." And on this dogma
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