ritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, for General Use;" and found that of the twenty-six pages of Mr. Liddon's sermon, “God and the Soul," no fewer than eleven are borrowed from this book, which is the development by a Jesuit of the text words of St. Ignatius Loyola; while the whole sermon is framed on these eleven pages, containing the pith as well as the most striking passages. The similarity is by no means confined to "thoughts and illustrations." In many sentences and paragraphs the coincidence is verbal; in others, the simple and earnest words of "Manresa" are expanded and, as it were, translated into ornate and rhetorical language. For instance: "Where was I one short century ago? Most of us, indeed, in asking ourselves the question, might be content with a much shorter period. The sun in the heavens, the face of the earth, the general conditions of human life, were then what they are at this hour. The civilized world, with its great cities and its leading ideas, and its general currents of effort and movement, were then what they are now. England was here. Our neighbourhood, our family, it may be our home, were known. These very benches were filled by a generation which observed our Church formalities and used our devotional language. Others, it may be, were then living who bore the very names which distinguish us among men, and whose forms and faces might have almost seemed to anticipate our personal life. But we, each one of us, were yet nothing. All that thought and feeling and passion and effort which centres at this moment in and is part of our separate selves, did not then exist. The lowest and vilest creatures were more than we, in that to them a being had been given, while as yet we were without one." With this passage compare― "Where was I a hundred years ago? I was nothing. I see the world, with its empires, its cities, its inhabitants; I see the sun which shines to-day, the earth on which I dwell, the land which gave me birth, the family from which I sprung, the name by which I am known; but I-what was I, and where was I? I was nothing, and it is among nothingness I must be sought. Oh how many ages passed during which no one thought of me! For how can nothing be the subject of thought? How many ages when even an insect or an atom was greater than I! for they possessed at least an existence."+ * Some Words for God, pp. 10, 11. + Manresa, pp. 22, 23. So expanded, and, we admit, so improved, is the matter contained in the eleven pages of which we have spoken. In a less marked, but still unmistakable manner, the sermon called "Christ's Welcome to the Penitent" is founded on the "Meditations on the Prodigal Son" in the same book of Spiritual Exercises; the verbal coincidences are fewer, but the scheme of treatment is the same. And if there be any truth in the adage, "ex pede Herculem," it is not unnatural if we are henceforward filled with a profound distrust that this so original teacher is not after all original— that Anglican exhortations, when most telling, may be drawn from a more venerable source; and as Theodore Parker's hearers, according to Mr. Lowell, could not tell "on Sunday beforehand If in that day's discourse they'd be Bibled or Koran'd," so we shall listen to Mr. Liddon, quite uncertain whether the voice we hear is that of the Chaplain of the Bishop of Salisbury, or whether he is simply the instrument which lends a deeper tone to the words of St. Ignatius Loyola. We are not among those who in these times of over-preachment would be hard on one who is called on, whether he will or no, to speak "Words for God," if he now and then takes bodily a good sermon of another man; but it is quite a different thing if one does so who has attained Mr. Liddon's reputation, and still more serious does the matter seem if he print as his own, without acknowledgment, not only the "thoughts and illustrations," but the very words of another. And if, as is the case, it is unlikely that the readers of the two books will be in many cases the same, it is strange in the extreme that one who desires to express obligation to those from whom he has borrowed, should name the Père Félix and Schleiermacher, and omit one greater than either, but whose words are less known. Were we to look at this matter simply from a literary point of view, it would seem unworthy of Mr. Liddon's reputation, and scarcely to be passed over in silence by any who might become aware of it. But it is strange that so astute a person does not see that, in the present temper of Englishmen, such a proceeding may do harm to the theological cause he has so much at heart. We are certainly not among those who would reject good words from any quarter; we have no horror of Rome, nor do we regard it with less or more favour than Anglicanism, except that it seems more venerable and real. But he who has the cause of Anglicanism sincerely at heart, must surely weaken that cause if it become known that the most telling "Words for God" he can find are those which he has learned from Jesuit lips. We can only acquit Mr. Liddon of what looks very like a literary fraud, by supposing that he has withheld the acknowledgment of his " conveyance" of St. Ignatius' words for reasons which say little for his foresight. In days when theological strife is keen and likely to increase, it is above all things needful that men fight fairly in their own armour and without any disguises. Even those most blind in bigotry or devotion to a preconceived idea can sometimes exercise their senses sharply, and it will be an ill day for the leaders of any party in the English Church if the eyes of the English people are cleared to perceive that much they have most admired has been borrowed from the professors of another faith. An ill day for them, unless, which we certainly do not think in Mr. Liddon's case, they desire to lead their followers back to the Church to which themselves are so deeply indebted. C. K. P. INDEX TO VOL. IV. APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS, THE, 149. Various editions of the Apocrypha of the BARHAM, Dr. T. F., "One God the Father," noticed, 444. BEARD, CHARLES, B.A., author of article, “University College and Mr. Mar- BOWRING, SIR JOHN, LL.D., author of article, "Rammohun Roy and Hindoo Brady, W. Maziere, D.D., "The alleged Conversion of the Irish Bishops," C. K. P., author of article, "Liddon's Sermons," 589. Carpenter, Mary, "The Last Days in England of the Rajah Rammohun Roy," CHRONOLOGY OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY, THE, 297. The year of the Baptism, 298. The year of the Crucifixion, 302. The day of the Passover, A. D. 29, 304. CLERGYMAN OF THE DIOCESE OF SALISBURY, A, author of article, "The Bishop |