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But of course no reasonable man can abut bis eyes to the 

 lact that any Bill to carry out this Report, or any single 

 paragrapb ol it. will bo accompanied by a demand for dis- 

 establishment. The Church of England has endured and 

 flourished Ijecause it afforded ample scope and latitude for 

 all varieties of Protestiint opinion, from the Highest of 

 the High to the Broadest of the Broad. If it is to sink 

 Into a small " Anglican " clique, its severance from the 

 State, as from the main body of English opinion, will he 

 speedy, definite and complete. 



If the alternative be that discipHne must be re- 

 stored in the Church or it must submit to Disestab- 

 lishment, it is quite clear that all the four writers 

 in the 'Nineteenth Century give their vote for Dis- 

 establishment, not because they like it, but because 

 they think it inevitable. 



EITUALISTS AND PEITATE JUDGMENT. 

 In the Fortnightly Ke'JiaiJ Mr. H. P. Russell sub- 

 jects Ritualists to a dose of stringent logic. He 

 analyses what they term " Catholic consent." The 

 visible Catholic Church to which they appeal is 

 supposed to be made up of the Roman, Greek and 

 Anglican Communions. The Greek Communion in 

 Russia recognises the Tsar as " Supreme Judge in 

 this spiritual assembly." The Anglican community 

 is never appealed to by the Ritualists, he says, as 

 an authority. In place of its authority they appeal 

 to •' the agreement of East .and West." In the 

 Roman Communion alone is there a spiritual 

 authority, a government and jurisdiction that is not 

 Erastian or territorial, but universal. The writer 

 concludes, with Cardinal Newman, that Ritualists 

 can only remain a party by professing, with whatever 

 inconsistency, the private judgment that they once 

 disowned. Adherents of the Ritualistic position 

 who defv the constituted authorities of their own 

 Church, and yet refuse to accept the authority of 

 the Church of Rome, " obey in fact no objecrive 

 authority, whetht^r ecclesiastical or ci\'il, but a sub- 

 jective speculation only, which has but the authority 

 of their private judgment." 



CANON HENSONS STEICTrRES. 

 In the Contemporary Review Canon Hensley Hen- 

 son deals verv gravely with the Report. He laments 

 the denominationalism of the National Church 

 which has reproduced the Congregationalism of 

 Dissent. He says, " The Church of England has 

 been disestablished piecemeal in the course of the 

 last century, and now survives the process embar- 

 rassed by the incidental destrucrion of the very pre- 

 suppositions of the discipline of an Established 

 Church." Nevertheless he later declares that the 

 parish clerg\man has a vast influence outside of his 

 congregation, and " it is a matter of national con- 

 cern that this vast indirwt influence should be wield- 

 ed on principles which the nation approves.'' After 

 referring to the distinctly Roman character of vest- 

 ments and the Mass, he refers to the extended use of 

 the Confessional, and says, " A wedge of suspicion 

 is being driven between the clergy and the robustest 

 moral sections of English life, which sooner or later 

 will rend asunder with destructive violence the seem- 



ing solid fabric of our national Church." He ex- 

 claims, " Was there ever, in the whole course of 

 Christian history, so fair a field for self-willed indi- 

 vidualism as the English Ritualist possesses in the 

 national Church?" He asks whether the influence 

 of the national Church is tending to increase or 

 diminish the moral and intellectual forces of the 

 State. The Canon concludes, with a touch of 

 malice : : — 



Who that reflects on the puerilities solemnly described 

 in this strangest of all Blue Books will feel able to indulge 

 the hope that, where self-will and impunity are so wedded 

 to superstition, it can be assumed that intelligeiice will 

 be allowed even so much part in ecclesiastical politics? 



■ PBAY FOR UNITY." 



A writer in Blachvood on the Report declares that 

 Ritualism is a bastard growth for which the High 

 Church Party is in a measure responsible: — 



We must all pray for unity. And the longer a settle- 

 ment is delayed, the wider is the gap likely to become. 

 B.v the permanent alienation of either of the two great 

 middle parties the field would be left clear tor disestablish- 

 ment. Rome would profit largely by the event, and be- 

 come in time the most powerful religious organisation in 

 this country. 



Still there is time, apparently, to avoid this con- 

 summation of Anglican dissension. The writer 

 says : — 



Let us trust that, when once satisfied of the coming ex- 

 pulsion of Romanism from the Anglican pale, there may be 

 a union of all parties for the common good of the Church 

 of England, by which alone, humanly speaking, it can be^ 

 saved from disestablishment. 



WHY THE CHINESE ARE SHUT OUT. 



By Senator Perkins. 



While the importation of Chinese into South Africa 

 is demanded by the Chamber of Mines of Johannes- 

 burg, Senator Perkins, of California, protests vehe- 

 mently in the North American Review for July against 

 the admission of the Chinese into the United States.. 

 He says : — 



The Chinese are capable of entering into competition 

 with any race on earth, with the chancea in favour of 

 their ultimate supremacy. To attempt to meet the Chinese 

 on their own ground would mean decimation at once. 

 Slavery is not an accident of Chinese communities in 

 America. It is one of their institutions of China. There 

 the practice of buying- and selling men and women is near- 

 ly as comnion as the buying and selliuLr cattle among us. 

 It is a system recognised by Chinese law. and has been in 

 vogue for thousands of years. It is a feature of Chinese 

 civilisation which is more firmly rooted than the principle- 

 of industrial liberty with us. 



They have their terrorist societies, tneir laws and cus- 

 toms, enforced with the barbarity which characterises 

 such enforcement- in China, and they yield only outward 

 obedience to the law of the land. They make xise of our 

 courts, by means of false witnesses, to reach with punish- 

 ment some offender against themselves, and by the same 

 means they prevent justice from being done in cases in 

 which they are a party. They are rigidly organised to 

 evade all laws bearing hard upon them, and the organisa- 

 tion is so perfect that evasion is not difficult. 



Personal freedom, the home, education. Christian ideals. 

 respect for law and ordei- are found on one side, and on 

 the other the traffic in human flesfi, domestic life which 

 renders a home impossible, a desire for only that know- 

 ledge which many be at once coined into dollars, a con- 

 tempt for our religion as new. novel, and without sub- 

 stantial basis, and no idea of the meaning of law other 

 than as a regulation to be evaded by cunning or by bri- 

 bery. The attack of the coolie labourer is not alone on 

 wages, but on the very foundation of the American work- 

 man's prosperity and well-being. The cont<;st is between 

 two social systems utterly opposed to each other. 



