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KNOX, M.A., Secretary, The MISSIONS TO SEAMEN, 11 Buckingham St., Strand, London, W.C. 2 CONTENTS CHURCH RECONSTRUCTION: THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. By the Rev. Arthur C. Headlam, D.D.. RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF SOME VICTORIAN LIBERALS. By the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford . THE CHURCH ORDER OF ST. HIPPOLYTUS, Part II. By Cuth- bert H. Turner, D. Litt., F.B.A., Magdalen College, Oxford EDMUND BISHOP, LITURGIST. By the Rev. W. H. Frere, TOWARDS RE-UNION: A NONCONFORMIST VIEW. By the Rev. Walter C. Adeney, M.A., D.D., formerly Principal of the Lancashire Independent College . SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. Rev. A. C. Bouquet, B.D., S.C.F. THE CHURCH IN WALES AFTER DISESTABLISHMENT. By the THE SCIENTIFIC AND BIBLICAL DOCTRINES OF DEATH. By the Rev. Robert Vaughan, Southport 300117 THE CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. CLXXIII. OCTOBER 1918. ART. I.-CHURCH RECONSTRUCTION. The Administrative Reform. 1. The Administrative Reform of the Church. Being a Report of the Archbishops' Fourth Committee of Inquiry. Published for the National Mission by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (London. 1918.) 2. The Revenues of the Church of England. Being Two Lectures delivered at the Church of St. Martin's-inthe-Fields on October 10 and 17, 1917. By the Rev. A. C. HEADLAM, M.A., D.D. (London: John Murray. 1917.) It is well known that as a result and outcome of the National Mission five committees have been appointed by the two Archbishops with the purpose of overhauling the whole work of the Church of England and suggesting means for the reconstruction of its administration, its worship, its teaching, its relation to industrial problems, and its evangelistic methods. These with a special Report on missionary effort made by the Central Board of Missions and the Report of the Archbishops' Committee on the relation of Church and State are intended to provide a complete scheme or at any rate suggestions covering the whole ground for the necessary reforms of the Church. VOL. LXXXVII.-NO. CLXXIII. B We propose to examine the suggestions that they make in a series of articles. That before us is directed to the administrative reform of the Church, and in conjunction with it the scheme drawn up by the present writer with a view to financial reform will be described. We recognize at once that in some ways administrative reform is the least important. As the Committee say: 'In Ezekiel's vision, when the scattered bones were gathered together and built up into a perfect skeleton, and even when the skeleton was clothed with flesh and blood, there was still no life until God breathed into the body His breath of life. Where His Spirit is, there is life and power; where His Spirit is absent there can only be impotence and death. But because we know that the Spirit is within the Church bestowing His gift of life, we claim that the organism of the Church be purged of what hampers or stifles that life and be built up, so far as the Holy Spirit Himself may guide us to do so, into an adequate instrument of His purpose.' This is true; but there is another side. The particular subject of this inquiry is one which can be most easily dealt with by a committee and with which legislation must deal. The other questions raised-evangelistic work, missions, teaching, worship-depend far more upon the spirit of the clergy and people and on individual effort. They are little affected by legislation. Here on the other hand we are dealing with just those questions which above all require the work of the statesman and cannot be carried out apart from reform of the law. They are then matters which more than any other should be the subject of inquiry. You cannot make theologians or saints by committees, but you can do a great deal towards making laws. The first thing that would be desired in any administrative reform is that it should be based upon a comprehension of and sympathy with the history and working of the Church of England. The Church of England is a great organism which has grown with the growth of the people, which has adapted itself to the national character, ་ |