26 JANUARY 1918, Page 3

We have to thank a correspondent for calling our attention,

in connexion with the Hereford controversy, to a remark by Sir Mountatuart Grant Duff which we recorded in a review of Notea from a Diary in the Spectator of April 29th, 1905. Hearty approval was expressed in that review of Sir Mountatuart Grant Duffs application of a text of Scripture. Leslie Stephen had censured Jowett for remaining in the Church while holding opinions of some latitude. Sir Mountatuart Grant Duff countered this censure with the text r " Except these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved." We added " What a. dismal wilderness the Anglican Church would be if it had lost all the men whom bigots of one temper and another have sought to expel I " And so we say again.