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Rh  much, on the liberality of our great mercantile concerns as such. In many instances chaplains have been paid to conduct short services in warehouses and workshops. The reward has been richly reaped in the generally generous consideration for employers, which, during the Cotton Famine, and at the last crisis of a Liverpool ‘cornering,’ have characterised the self-restraining spirit of the operative classes, and which has reduced the painful experiences of strikes and the internecine warfare of capital and labour almost to a minimum…. What we want to come to is this: that every man according to his ability shall interest himself by sympathy, by effort, by gift of thought, and time and money, in all kinds of service; and that anyone, employer or employed, who stands aloof from that service, which the man can often bestow as well as the master, shall be counted a traitor to the cause of Christ and His Church.”

On the question of Church and Dissent the Dean's opinions are emphatic. Speaking during the last Liberal Administration, he asserted that “the danger of the Church was greater than hitherto, because the Liberal party of the day contained many Nonconformists who were most bitter and uncompromising in their attacks on the establishment. The time had come, whether they liked it or not, when the clergy must assert themselves. Dissent now had no serious grievance or disability, and the idea among Dissenters that Disestablishment and Disendowment would equalise the social positions of all ministers was altogether a mistaken one.”

Dean Maclure is included in this collection not so much because he is a “Prayer-Book Churchman,” as he terms himself, as because the best portion of his life has been devoted to Lancashire, with the natural result that he must be as well acquainted as