Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rs asgreat, and defenders of the Faith whom no assaults could over-throw. William Stubbs rose from a country cure, through anOxford professorship, to be Bishop of Chester in 1884. Hiswork during the tw(uity years before that date had establishedthe constitutional bistory of England on sure foundations, andhad put before the world the historic position and the historicservices of the national Church, as they
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rs asgreat, and defenders of the Faith whom no assaults could over-throw. William Stubbs rose from a country cure, through anOxford professorship, to be Bishop of Chester in 1884. Hiswork during the tw(uity years before that date had establishedthe constitutional bistory of England on sure foundations, andhad put before the world the historic position and the historicservices of the national Church, as they had never been putbefore. When a Royal Commission was appointed to considerthe vexed question of the hlstor3^ rights, and powers of the 18851 THE CHURCH. 595 Ecclesiastical Courts, it was his massive learning and strenuousenergy which caused the truth, long obscured hy coininou lawencroachments and partisan iiiHuences, to bo clearly set conclusions of the Commission were ineffectual, and havenever been acted upon; but the impressive learning of theappendices contributed by Dr. Stubbs caused the constitutionalrights of the clerical estate to be more clearly imderstood, and. lIOXrMENT TO BISHOP LIGHTrOOT, nV SIR EDUAU BOKUM, , AND ALFRED GILBERT. {Durham CntliedrtiL) tended to the withdrawal of all official support from the legisla-tion of 1874. Meanwhile, two eminent Cambridge scholars,Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham, 1879), and BrookeFoss Westcott (Bishop of Durham, 1889), had vindicated theauthenticitj^ and closely illustrated the text, of many of the NewTestament books. It was seen that English learning could holdits own in Europe, and that Englishmen were still able power-fully to vindicate the foundation doctrines of the Christianreligion. Never since the time when Bull was thanked by theFrench bishops for his defence of the Nicene Creed had theAnglican body been so rich in great scholars. It was of happy augury for the Church that when Archbis
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