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Rh he was working so well, and other estimable clergymen rabbled, because they were surrounding the worship of God with revived accessories of reverence which the ultra school of Roman Catholics were at that very time deriding and persecuting. For us of the Church of England the nemesis came in six short years, in the judgment of the Judicial Committee in the suit of Liddell v. Westerton, which legalized in the case of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, those very ornaments for reviving which Mr. Bennett had been banished from it.

The papers which I have brought together upon Cathedrals as institutions in sequence to 'The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century' include one which is neither a Congress paper nor a review-article, but an essay contributed to my friend Dean Howson's volume of Cathedral Essays, headed 'Cathedrals in their Missionary Aspect.' In this I threw out suggestions for the permissive endowment of more stalls by voluntary liberality. I had, during the session after I had published it, the satisfaction of giving practical effect to my proposal by carrying through both Houses of Parliament, without a division, the Canonries Act 1873 (36th & 37th of Victoria, chapter 39), containing provisions for that good object. St. Paul's is the only Cathedral in which as yet effect has been given to that Statute, but it exists as a handy machinery for Cathedral expansion, towards which attention appears to be gradually being directed.