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The Archbishop of York on Tuesday took advantage of the

distribution of prizes to the successful candidates in the middle- class examinations to deliver a long address on the moral value of knowledge. " He was not afraid of knowledge " which, " though it need not be good, might become a great instrument of good." He " found that in the Old Testament wisdom and knowledge were spoken of as Divine gifts," and thought that only half- knowledge was condemned in the New. The speech puts the case very well indeed as coming from a Bishop, but Robert Hall put it better. He was asked by some high Calvinist, " How much need, brother, has God of human knowledge ? " " And how much," was the crushing reply of the old preacher, " has He of human ignor- ance ? "

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