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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



Pastoral Theology (Church of Eng- 

 land). 



As a matter of fact, in practice it 

 has been found to be possible to give 

 common instruction in certain of these 

 last-mentioned subjects also, so that an 

 even closer measure of co-operation has 

 been effected than was at first believed 

 to be possible. A new building will be 

 secured in which lectures in all subjects 

 taken in common will be given, thus 

 reserving the present buildings of the 

 individual colleges as halls of residence 

 — the additional space now available 

 thus accommodating a larger number of 

 students — and for the special denomina- 

 tional instruction referred to above. 



INCREASED DIGNITY AND IMPORTANCE. 



The federation of the colleges gives 

 theology, as compared with the other 

 professorial faculties, a place of much 

 more dignity and importance in the 

 University than it could secure when 

 represented by a series of separate 

 affiliated schools. As this plan is 

 worked out, not only will the profes- 

 sorial positions be more attractive, but 

 the standards among the students will 

 be raised, and a better class of men 

 will take up the study of theology. 

 A much more direct interest will fur- 

 thermore be taken in the federated col- 

 leges by their own denominations when 



their increased efficiency becomes to be 

 recognised, and much more support — 

 financial and otherwise — will be ac- 

 corded when it is recognised that their 

 income is not to be frittered away in 

 perpetuating differences and in useless 

 re-duplication. 



THE " SALT " PRESERVED. 



Since the students of each college still 

 live together in their own college with 

 the members of their staff, having their 

 common social life and their distinctive 

 teaching in certain subjects, with the 

 broadened general outlook, there will 

 be retained those elements of strength 

 and peculiar value which gave to the 

 respective Churches their birth, their 

 traditions and their strength, and which 

 still supply an element of initiative and 

 vigour in these Churches in the present 

 day. This is the " salt " of each denom- 

 ination — the accentuation of a certain 

 phase of truth — which gives to each 

 bodv a distinctive force and " colour " 

 in the Church of Christ. 



The movement is a demonstration 

 that the several Protestant bodies can 

 unite in close harmony, presenting a 

 united front, while at the same time 

 preserving those qualities and views 

 which give them severally their value 

 and distinction. 



