The Record, formerly tri-weekly, appears this week as a weekly
paper only. That is a curious sign of the great change which has passed, not only over the Church of England, but over orthodox religious opinion in the country. It is not thirty years since in thousands of households the Record, as the one Calvinist journal accepting episcopacy, was considered the only newspaper reflecting true Christianity, and its conductors distinctly influenced not only all clerical contro- versy, but many departments of politics. Now, there is not demand enough for that view of the truth even to sustain the Record in frequent publication. No doubt, something of the change is due to the rise of the Bock, which has the advantage of being more indifferent to reason, ana something to that absence of extreme malignity which has marked the later days of the Record, and which must have greatly tried its old sup. porters; but there must have been a change, too, in religious opinion. There are Calvinists in plenty in the Church still, but they are to the old Becordites what the Duke of Richmond is to Lord Eldon.
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