It will be a difficult matter to replace him by
a Bishop as strong, unless the Bishop of Chester, who also belongs to the
Northern Province, should be named, and should turn out to be a man of the same calibre. We hardly know why it is now almost unheard of to take a clergyman from the ranks and lift him at once to an Archbishop's throne, unless it is that states- men are now so sensitive to opinion, that they cannot bear to excite the grudges which such a course would stir up among those already on the Episcopal Bench. We do hope, however, that a Bishop of distinctly third-rate quality, even though he be a good " organiser," will not be raised to the Archbishopric. There never was a time in which we needed intellectual strength so much on the Episcopal Bench. There are plenty of men there who show sufficient practical zeal, but hardly any, except Dr. Magee, Dr. Westcott, and Dr. Jayne, and perhaps Dr. Harvey Goodwin, who can make their strength of thought and purpose generally felt, and who raise the respect of the world for the Anglican Episcopacy.
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