easible"; but they, themselves, prefer a less heroic method. While
retaining the dignity of Establishment and the opulence of Endowment,
they propose that the Church should have "power to legislate on all
matters affecting the Church, subject to Parliamentary veto....
This proposal has the immense practical advantage that, whereas it
is now necessary to secure time for the passage of any measure
through Parliament, if this scheme were adopted it would become
necessary for the opponent or obstructor to find time to prevent
its passage. The difference which this would make in practice is
enormous." It is indeed; and the proposal is interesting as a choice
specimen of what the world knows (and dislikes) as Ecclesiastical
Statesmanship.

"Life and Liberty"--there is music in the very words; and, ever
since I was old enough to have an opinion on serious matters, I
have cherished them as the ideals for the Church to which I belong.
From the oratory of Queen's Hall and the "slim" statesmanship which
proposes to steal a march on the House of Commons I turn to that
great evangelist, Arthur Stanton, who wrote as follows when Welsh
Disestablishment was agitating the clerical mind.

"Nothing will ever reconcile me to the Establishment of Christ's
Church on earth by Sovereigns or Parliaments. It is established
by God on Faith and the Sacraments, and so endowed, and all other
pretended establishment and endowment to me is profane." And again:

"Taking away endowments doesn't affect me; but what does try me
is the inheriting them, and denying the faith of the donors--and
then talking of sacrilege. The only endowment of Christ's Church
comes from the Father and the Son, and is the Holy Ghost, Which
no man can give and no man can take away.'"

Here, if you like, is the authentic voice of Life and Liberty.

V

_LOVE AND PUNISHMENT_

Lord Hugh Cecil is, I think, one of the most interesting figures
in the public life of the time. Ten years ago I regarded him as the
future leader of the Tory party and a predestined Prime Minister. Of
late years he has seemed to turn away from the strifes and intrigues
of ordinary politics, and to have resigned official ambition to his
elder brother; but his figure has not lost--rather has gained--in
interest by the change. Almost alone among our public men, he seems
to have "his eyes fixed on higher lodestars" than those which guide
Parliamentary majorities. He avows his allegiance to those m