The Church Congress at Cheltenham Was preceded by an earnest
but, an we think thoroughly mistaken protest against -Dr.- II D. A. Major,- the modernist Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, being allowed to speak at the Congress. Tht—tirotest. Was' signed by - some seven hundred Anglo-Catholics, including Lord Halifax. The Bishop of Gloucester,. as President of the Congress, sent a carefully reasoned reply to Lord Halifax in which he argued for the toleration of sincere opinion. Experi- ence had shown that the truth could be best established by free discussion. He himself did not alwayS agree with Dr. Major, but he recognized that Dr. Major was attempting to build up an apologetic and philosophy of the faith in accordance with modern thought. Although Dr. Major did not believe in the miraculous, he believed in the supernattiralwithout believing in the virgin birth, for example, he believed in the divinity of Christ. *
