188 REV. CHANCELLOR J. J. LIAS, M.A., ON THE DECAY OF 
of non-episcopal evangelists such as those Colonel Mackinlay 
refers to. 
As regards Mr. Marston’s statement, the question arises, is it well 
authenticated 1 The Pauline doctrine of Justification by Faith 
must he placed in connection with that of St. James, “Faith 
without works is dead ” (Jas. ii, 14-17). Perhaps it is this two- 
fold doctrine that is the vital place in the Old Catholic Church, but 
we need more light before pronouncing judgment on a matter 
outside our knowledge, and indeed, outside the scope of Mr. Lias’s. 
The discussion was continued by Mr. Rouse, who gave an account 
of Dr. McAll’s mission work in Paris, by the Rev. Dr. Noyes, 
Rev. R. Faithful Davies, Mr. W. Soltau, and the Rev. H. 
J. R. Marston, who, in thanking the author, expressed the opinion 
that the reason the Old Catholic movement had so slowly expanded 
was that its leaders had not grasped what almost all the Reformers 
of the sixteenth century had held as the central and vital place 
in Christianity, namely, the doctrine of St. Paul, “justification by 
faith.” 
The thanks of the meeting having been conveyed to the author 
in a few appropriate words by the Chairman, and the Author 
having replied, the meeting separated. 
Postscript . — Since the above was in type it has been authoritatively 
stated that a branch of the Old Catholic Church is being organised 
in England, as will be seen by the following statement in The 
Guardian , April 8th, 1908 : — 
An Old Catholic Movement in England. 
[From our Old Catholic Correspondent.] 
The organ of the Dutch Old Catholic Church, De Oud Katholiek, 
announces in its April number that on February 18th a meeting of 
Roman Catholic clergy and laymen was held at Chelsfield, the 
object of this gathering being to choose a Bishop independent of 
Rome, who is to receive his Consecration at the hands of Old 
Catholic Bishops. Seventeen priests and sixteen lay-people are 
said to have been present, and they elected as their pastor the 
Rev. A. H. Mathew, who claims to be Earl of LlandafF. The 
Bishop-elect was ordained priest in 1878 by the Roman Catholic 
