rniture of the Church.' One would have thought
such churchmanship as this would have satisfied any one. However, the
cry of heresy has been raised, principally, it seems, because he denies
the doctrine of eternal damnation--an awful doctrine, we do not venture
to affirm or condemn here. Because he has done this, he has been branded
with infidelity; and _The Record_, and _The Morning Advertiser_--neither
of them journals distinguished for talent, but rather the
reverse--hounded on the public indignation against Mr. Maurice,
forgetting that no man has so earnestly laboured to Christianize--not the
dark tribes of Polynesia, for then these journals would have been
redolent with his praise--but the savages with white faces and dark
hearts that we meet in our streets every day.

It is melancholy to think that wretched theologians may aim their small
shot at such a man, merely because his idea of God and Christianity may
be less fearful, more loving and humane, than their own. Surely a man
may love God and his neighbour as himself--may believe Christ suffered
for the sins of the world--without being hooted by every ignorant or
unreasoning fool, because, on other matters--matters merely
speculative--matters too dark for man ever to fully inquire into or
completely to understand--his opinions differ from their own. Proud as
we are of our press, yet such exhibitions should make us mourn, that at
times it can so far forget Christian charity and common sense, and
descend so low. One thing is clear, that there is no tribunal in the
Church that can satisfactorily settle the question of heresy; and another
thing is clear, that whilst so many men differing so widely from each
other are in the Church, the question with the majority of them cannot be
one of principle but of pay. Churchmen should be the last to raise the
cry of heresy, for it is a revelation to the world of what must ever be
their weakness and their shame.

Mr. Maurice, after all, is thrown away where he is: all his life he has
been in an uncongenial position. The son of a dissenting minister, the
habits he acquired have clung to him from his earliest youth. Hazlitt
tells us how a man so nurtured grows up in a love of independence and of
truth; and such a one will find it hard to retain a connection long with
any human organization and creed. Then, as the brother-in-law of
Sterling, Maurice would naturally be led to modes of thought and action
other than those