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†Pearson, Rev. J. B., B.A. Peckover, Rev. E. G., M.A. Pennant, P. P., M.A. Pickles, Rev. J. S., M.A. Pierpoint, Rev. R. D., M.A. Pieters, Rev. J. W., B.D. Previtè, Rev. W., M.A. Potts, A. W., M.A. Reyner, Rev. G. F., B.D. +Richardson, Rev. G., M.A. Rippin, C. R., M.A. Roberts, Rev. W. P., M.A. Roby, H. J., M.A. Rounthwaite, Rev. J.F.,M.A. Rowe, Rev. T. B., M.A. Rowsell, Rev. E. E., M.A. Rowsell, Rev. W. F., M.A. Rudd, Rev. E. J. S., M.A. Russell, Rev. H., B.D. Secker, J. H., M.A. Selwyn, Rev. Prof., D.D. Sharpe, H. J., M.A. Shoults, Rev. W. A., M.A. Smith, Rev. C. J. E., M.A. Smith, J., M.A.

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FREEDOM OF WORSHIP.

Prize Essays on Free Worship and Finance, by Rev. T. P. Browning; Rev. S. H. SAXBY; Rev. J. HAMILTON; and REV. W. P. S. BINGHAM. RIVINGTONS: London, Cambridge, and Oxford, 1865.

NO one, who can spare a few moments from the engrossing competition of the Senate-House, Fenner's, and the boats, can be unaware of the strange excitement with which the whole of England is labouring at the present time. Public meetings to discuss questions of parliamentary reform; meetings for and against ritualistic practices; meetings to consider how trades unions may extend their influence to the continent; meetings, again, of working-men to counteract the activity of the trades unionists; church congresses, social science congresses; the revival of diocesan synods; the progress of co-operative societies; and last, not least, the wonderful activity of the Anglican church in every kind of work-all combine to shew that a new phase of social life in England is about to commence, and that the old order must ere long give place to the new. In the political world the more wealthy and educated classes have set their faces in the most determined manner against democracy; the working classes are equally determined to procure for themselves what they consider a fair representation in the House of Commons. How to balance these apparently conflicting, but really not irreconcilable, interests, is the problem on which statesmen are engaged. A not dissimilar difficulty requires the consideration of ecclesiastics. The inevitable working-man, who seems to absorb all the attention at present in matters political, is at the bottom of the tribulation of the divines as well. On the one hand the working-man, having much the same moral affections as other men, stands in equal need of religious training, and requires similar facilities for public worship. On the other hand, there is no doubt that the great majority of the persons generally known by the name of the working classes, do not attend

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