With the retirement also next year of the Bishop of London, the Prime Minister will have two highly important sees to fill, worth respectively £7,000 and £10,000 a year, though in fact a Bishop either of Durham or London is a poor man unless he has private means. Some people think that Archbishop Temple of York may come to London in order to make it easier for him to go to Canterbury later.
But there are several very able candidates of 60 and under, Dr. Blagden of Peterborough, Dr. Fisher of Dr. Rawlinson of Derby, Dr.
rd o stal, and others who might be mentioned, There was, perhaps, never a time when the Eng-lash episcopate contained so many men of the first rank, while the unpleasant theological differences among them seem to have been healed or to have disappeared. Those who so readily criticize "the Church" for supposed shortcomings might well be advised to study their facts.
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