CONTENTS. LETTER PAGE LXVII. Synodical Action and the Metropolitan Church Union 311 LXVIII. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Tablet LXIX. A New Session of Convocation LXX. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr. Gawthorn 320 323 326 331 LXXXVI. Education and Toleration-II. LXXXVII. Education and Toleration-III. LXXXIX. Education and Toleration-IV. XC. Extension of Church Services XCI. The Gorham Judgment as it is XCII. Education and Toleration-V. XCIII. Churchmen, and the coming Session XCIV. Convocation in Action XCV. The Church and a new Ministry LETTERS ON CHURCH MATTERS. LXVII. SYNODICAL ACTION AND THE METROPOLITAN AUGUST 18, 1851. THE ecclesiastical aspect of matters has changed, not merely since I first addressed you, at the close of November -in that space of time we have lived through an era-but even since the commencement of the Great Exhibition. Then the Synod of Exeter was a dream of the future-something which no antagonist-not even Lord John himself, or Sir Alexander Cockburn-thought would ever really come to pass now it is a fact of the times. The restoration of synodical action was then a knotty question of possibility; it has now become a point of simple policy. : Confident as true Churchmen must be-and as they arein their success, actual and prospective, they may, and they therefore ought to be careful to know under what banners they enlist. The man who is about to marry, and who is therefore pressed to furnish his home, does not thereupon rush frantically into the first shop he finds placarded with letters six inches high, Roman and Gothic, and topsy-turvy. No more does the Churchman, who has at heart the restoration of the efficiency of the Church, close with the first puff X |