SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading to. notics such Books of &hi trosk as hays not Won num.:1 for swim in *this forms.] Ordination Problems. By John Wordsworth, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)—Bishop Wordsworth publishes in this volume a review of the Abbe Saltet's "Reordinations," in which the question, Should persons ordained by heretical Bishops be reordained ? is discussed, and with it a treatise of his own on ordinations per salt urn. Can a man be ordained Bishop without passing through the lower grades ? The practical importance of this question is its bearing on a possible union with the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Dr. Wordsworth's suggestion is, if we understand him aright, to ordain certain Scottish presbyters as Bishops. This would save the humiliation of formally repudiating their presbyteral status. They would, in process of time, give the Church over which they presided an episcopally ordained ministry,—this the Bishop regards as essential. It will be better, perhaps, to state the matter without comment, except it be to express our sense of the Bishop's friendly and moderate tone. Central Poor Law Conference. (P. S. King and Son. is. net.)— We need hardly say that there is much that is well worth noting in this pamphlet. It contains four papers on questions raised by the Report of the Poor Law Commission and the discussions which followed. We must be content with making a quotation from the paper read by the Rev. P. S. G. Propert, Chairman of the Fulham Board of Guardians :—" After many years of patient and impartial study of social problems I am coming to the con- clusion that the truth as to the disadvantages of militant trades- unionism needs to be publicly stated with greater reiteration than it is at present. By mapping put industry into definite compart- ments or trades it prevents an intelligent man, capable of working in two or more trades, from turning his hand from one to the other. A stonemason must not touch bricks, and a plasterer must not defile his hands with paint." And he proceeds to criticise the suggestion of "labour exchanges" as likely to increase the evil.
Previous page
