The Lincoln judgment has frightened one Protestant Vicar, the Vicar
of New Malden, Surrey, into resignation. In a letter to the Bishop of Rochester, printed in last -Saturday's Times, he declares that the Lincoln judgment ". has rendered it impossible for me to retain any connection with the Established Church as she now is, with Popery taught by her clergy on every hand, her communion tables turned into `altars,' her ministers into 'sacrificing priests,' her Churches into mass-houses, and with auricular confession inculcated, practised, and where possible, enforced." After forty-one years, therefore, of clerical work, Mr. Charles Stirling, till now the Vicar of New Malden, has determined to wash his hands of the whole business. But the Council of the Protestant Churchmen's Alliance does not sympathise with Mr. Stirling. They have just issued a memorandum in which, indeed, they deplore the Lincoln Judgment, and state their intention to do all in their power to resist the tendencies which it favours, but they add 'that " neither the Archbishop's judgment, nor its endorsement by the Privy Council, can be adduced" in favour of the Romanising interpretations put upon the practices sanctioned, '" or as in any way changing the doctrinal character of the 'Church of England." That is exactly the fact. The Arch. laishop's judgment took all the doctrinal coloar out of the practices which it allowed.
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