Dr. Major often seems to us to injure his cause
by being unduly dogmatic ; by setting up what the Bishop of 'Gloucester aptly called " an orthodox unorthodoxy."
But anyone who sincerely wishes to be a Christian while trying to express his belief in evolutionary terms, is surely not a suitable subject for expulsion. If he were, the Church of England would not be the comprehensive body she has always been but would model herself on the Church of Rome, whose strength is in strict tests and inarvellouS organization . but whose weakness is in her intellectual appeal. If expulsion had been the Church's remedy we should iiow he looking. back with sorrow and humiliation on the expulsion of such men as Colenso and F. D. Maurice. The moderniSt has no right to press an exclusive dogma of his own, but it is equally true that he has no need to apologize for a sincere attempt to make belief grow where none grew before. * *
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