The best letter written in defence of Dr. Temple is
that of Dr. Ewing, the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, in Wednesday's Times. He puts the matter plainly enough. He quotes Dr. Pusey's bigoted assertion that Dr. Temple "prefers his party to Almighty God and the souls of men," and asks if Dr. Pusey is aware that there are a class of errors admitted in the English Church, but believed by many to be far more fatal to the souls of men than those even of the worst of the Essayists and Reviewers,—the errors involved in sacerdotalism on the one side and substitutionism on the other. "The magical instrumentality contended for by the one school,
and the unreal morality of the other," are, says Dr. Ewing, in his *belief, "destroying the meaning and benefit of revelation," and -driving out all the knowledge of God "by separating God from mature and righteousness." He thinks Dr. Pusey and Dr. Mac- Neile far more dangerous to the Church than even Mr. Baden Powell and Mr. Wilson. Dr. Pusey would reply that anyhow he and Dr. MacNeile, however dangerous, are not heretical. Per- haps not,—nor is Dr. Temple. Is it any worse to co-operate with -a heretic who is not dangerous, than with an uncondemned theo- logian who is ?
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