The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced in a Greek letter
to the Eastern patriarchs, bishops, and others the sending of the recent Pan-Anglican Encyclical, a copy of which he encloses. He auks his correspondents to rejoice with him and the Pan-Anglican Conference, on the score of this remarkable conclave and epistle, quoting St. Paul, "If one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it." The Apostolic precept is rightly quoted, but the application given it by the Archbishop is more disputable. To us, for example, the Encyclical caused pure suffering, and we were really not alone in that feeling. However, as we don't care to insist on the Patriarch of Constantinople suffering with us, we will not object to his rejoicing with Dr. Longley, if he can. But if his spirits are greatly raised by the very unmeaning piece of Apostolic mimicry which his Grace encloses, he must be a very elastic- minded old gentleman indeed, and we should be sorry to throw a wet blanket on his joy.
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