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Pulpit Assistant to the City Temple. May an old-fashioned Churchman suggest that, if this is a sample of Mr. Sheppard's new movement, the
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Life of the Church of England is likely to be a little too lively, and its
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Liberty to verge on licence? A ministry of undenominational feminism is
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Here it is to be remarked that the leaders of the movement are male and female after their kind. Dr. and Mrs. Dingo sit in council side by side, and much regret is expressed that Archdeacon Buckemup is still a celibate. But let us be of good cheer. Earnest-minded spinsters, undeterred by the example of Korah (who, as they truly say, was only a man), are clamouring for the priesthood as well as the vote; and in the near future the
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Venerable Archdeaconess
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must be now considered, and we will take the programme of
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Life and Liberty point by point, as set forth in a pamphlet by Mr. Temple. In the first place, its leaders are very clear that they wish to keep their endowments; but it must not be supposed that they dread reform. Their policy is
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Redistribution. Those great episcopal incomes are again threatened; the Bishops are to be delivered from that burden of wealth which presses so hardly on them; and the slum parson is to have a living wage. But the incumbent, though his income may thus be increased, is by no means to have it all his own way. His freehold in his benefice is to be abolished; and, even while he retains his position, he is to have his duties assigned to him, and his work arranged, by a
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Parochial Church Council, in which the
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Pulpit Assistant at Bethesda or Bethel may have her place. Life and Liberty indeed! But further boons are in store for us. We have at present two Archbishops, and, I hope, are thankful for them. Under the new scheme we are promised eight, or even nine.
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Showers of blessing, as the hymn says! I presume that the six (or seven) new Archbishops are to be paid out of the
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incomes of the existing two. The believers in
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Life and Liberty humanely propose to compensate the Archbishop of Canterbury for the diminution of his £15,000 a year by letting him call himself a
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Patriarch,
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; but they, themselves, prefer a less heroic method. While retaining the dignity of Establishment and the opulence of Endowment, they propose that the Church should have
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Life and Liberty --there is music in the very words; and, ever since I was old enough to have an opinion on serious matters, I have cherished them as the ideals for the Church to which I belong. From the oratory of Queen's Hall and the