THE TABLET A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DL'M VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of Flis Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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News and No t e s ................. 389 The Church of England,
Ltd........................................... 393 A 11 Academy of Absentees 394 A Sea Pilgrimage in St.
Columba’s Wake— V I . . . 396 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 397 Review s :
A Curate’ s E g g ................. 39S St. Vincent de Paul . . . 399 De Potentia D e i ................. 399 Books Received ................ 400 New Books and Music . . . 400
CON T
ENTS
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“ God’s House ” 402 Dominican Appointments . . . 402 Ch e s s .......................................403 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’ s Weekly Letter from) . . . .............. 405 Bermondsey’s Catholic
Schools ............................406 Argyll and the Isles . . . 406 ET CfETERA............................407 Catholic Education Notes . . . 408 Obituary ............................ 409 1C.S.C. Pilgrimage to Can
terbury ........................... 409
Letters to the Editor :
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C o lo m e t r y ......................... 410 Mr. Gandhi .............. 410 The Church Times and
Phoenix P a r k .............. 410 Colie gio Bed a .............. 411 Coming Events .............. 411 W il l s ......................... 411 Orbis Terrarum :
England ......................... 412 Scotland ......................... 412 Wales ......................... 412 Ireland ......................... 413 AListria ......................... 413
Orbis Terr arum ( Oontd.) Belgium ............................ 413
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China ............................ 413 Czechoslovakia ................. 414 France ............................ 414 India 415 I t a l y ............................... 415 Japan ............................ 415 Kenya Colony ................. 415 Poland ............................ 416 Portugal ............................ 416 Spain ............................ 416 Straits Settlements . . . 416 Cardinal L6picier at Bognor 416 Social and Personal . . . 416
NOTANDA
Dark days fo r Disarmament. Mr. Henderson’s mistake (p. 389), and Germany’s ill-timed claim (p. 390).
“ The Church o f England, Ltd.” A Tablet leaderwriter brings out the significance o f a speech by the Dean o f St. Paul’s (p. 393).
A real insult to Ireland. A Yeats-Shaw proposal fo r a literary Academy o f absentees (p. 394).
A t Oban. The stone-laying fo r the new Cathedral (p. 406).
A Nottingham pastoral. H ow the late Bishop’s memory is to be honoured in the Cathedral which he so loved (p. 402).
Methodist Reunion. A Catholic comment on an important event (p. 389).
Was St. Ninian a “ Roman Catholic” or not? Some lines on a Presbyterian divine’s recent speech (p. 392).
Bermondsey’s fine record. A working-class parish raises £60,000, during thirty-three years, fo r Catholic education (p. 406).
More about Nudism. The need fo r vigilance (p. 391).
NEWS AND NOTES B Y the time this page of print is under the eyes o f readers in America and in the further countries of Europe, our friends may have learned by telegram that the National Government in Britain has been reconstructed. Until the threatened or promised resignation o f the Liberal Ministers becomes an accomplished fact, The Tablet cannot discuss it ; but we ask all readers abroad to be slow in accepting the interpretations which foreign journalists are eager to put upon any new Cabinet-making which may become necessary. Britain’s external policies will not be changed,
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except, we hope, towards Russia. Nor will the nation’s domestic solidarity be shaken or the Ottawa Agreements be weakened.
With many chairs empty o f their former occupants, the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference met again at Geneva, on Wednesday. While it would be unjust to load Mr. Henderson with the blame for Disarmament’s gloomy prospects, we must say that he has helped to thicken the murk. It was tactless, and worse, to publish, as he did, a p rovocative article in the News-Chronicle almost on the eve o f his re-occupying the chair at Geneva. France might have expressed strong resentment against the article in question ; and it is within our knowledge that Mr. Henderson’s presidential impartiality has been gravely discredited. Months ago, The Tablet was almost alone in pleading that Mr. Henderson should not preside over the Geneva deliberations for the Limitation o f Armaments. The reasons we gave were sound ; and the event has justified our opinion.
No Catholic worthy o f the name rejoices over the disunity of non-Catholic Christians. “ Divide and Rule ” is a worldly maxim. Therefore we are glad to know that the long-standing schisms among the Methodists of Great Britain are at an end, and that the three main bodies have been re-joined. At a memorable gathering in the Royal Albert Hall last Tuesday, the legal formalities o f Reunion were consummated and a vast audience heard the Duke o f York deliver a gracious message from the King. Our Catholic view o f heresy and schism does not forbid us to wish our Methodist brethren a certain measure o f success. Humanly speaking, we must expect many years to pass before England and Scotland and Wales are rid o f the prejudice against the Catholic Church implanted in them during four centuries ; and, during those years, the Methodists will have access to millions of persons whom Catholics can hardly reach. We pray that the Methodists will faithfully deliver the Gospel preached by John Wesley in its fundamentals ; namely, that
