s told me, he can
preach a good sermon when he likes. But his teaching is not that which
can do the man much good. Eschewing the common evangelical doctrines,
and holding views inconsistent with free inquiry and the growth of manly
thought, he has but little left him to do in his discourses but to
expatiate on the sanctity of the priestly office, and the mysterious
powers possessed by the Church. These are his favourite topics. To win
the truth--to lead a god-like life--to bring back man, the wanderer, to
heaven and to God, seem minor matters at St. Paul's, so long as the
pillars are wreathed with costly flowers, and that the service is
intoned. And to this teaching the world of fashion in its unfathomable
puerility submits, and men who are our legislators, men who are high in
rank and influence, men whose example is law all over the land, take it
for truth. Mr. Liddell styles his congregation highly educated and
devout. He is right in that statement. Men who have sat under him and
his predecessor, who have believed them with unshrinking reverence, who
have taken every statement as the truth, have been highly educated, but
in a wrong direction. Granting that Mr. Liddell is right, what avails
his teaching? Is not his mission grander and more comprehensive than he
deems it? Has not man something better to do than to learn to bow, to
intone, to admire flowers, and to look at painted glass? In the universe
around him, can the priest find no voice more audible than his own? Does
not his own Church convey to the listening ear sublimer revelations? If
it be not so, Puseyism is a thing worth fighting for--worth dying for; if
it be so, the minister and the 'highly educated' and devout congregation
at St. Paul's have made a terrible mistake--a mistake which the friends
of pure and undefiled religion may well mourn and lament.

THE REV. F. D. MAURICE.

'If I saw,' wrote John Sterling to Archdeacon Hare, in 1840,--'if I saw
any hope that Maurice and Samuel Wilberforce and their fellows could
reorganize and reanimate the Church and the nation, or that their own
minds could continue progressive without being revolutionary, I think I
could willingly lay my head in my cloak, or lay it in the grave, without
a word of protest against aught that is.' Since then Wilberforce has
become a bishop, and there is no danger of his becoming revolutionary;
Maurice has gone on seeking to reanimate the Church, and the Church now
r