The Archbishop of Canterbury has published a letter to Dr.
Henson, the new Bishop of Hereford, expressing the belief that " when you repeat the words of the Creed you do so ex animo and without any desire to change them," with Dr. Henson's reply declaring that the Archbishop's statement is " absolutely true," and expressing surprise that he should have to give such an assur- ance after a public ministry of thirty years. The Archbishop has also published a long letter to the Bishop of Oxford, declining to refuse consecration to the new Bishop of Hereford on the ground of heresy. The Archbishop says that he finds in Dr. Henson's books opinions with which he disagrees, " a want of balance and a crudity of abrupt statement" which must be painful, and even dangerous, to some minds, and " almost irreconcilable inconsistencies." But the Archbishop has found nothing inconsistent with Dr. Henson's expressed belief in the Creeds, and commends him as " a brilliant and powerful teacher of the Christian faith." The Archbishop reminds Dr. Gore that Dr. Liddon raised much the same objection to Lux Mundi as its leading essayist is now raising to Dr. Henson.
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