"The Churchman."

All the expenditure of the League, except a small sum for hire of meeting place, has been in connection with our little paper. The requests from various quarters for copies of each monthly issue have been so numerous that page 4 a much larger number have had to be printed. The circumstances and surroundings governing the issue of The Churchman cause the Council to work under some disadvantage in its production. Being entrusted with the duty of affording some little light and information on subjects of vital importance to Church people, with which, it may be said, in many instances, they seem to be almost utterly unacquainted, there is naturally some little difficulty experienced in getting people generally to understand our motive and line of action. This difficulty, also naturally, is accentuated by the good offices of some of our friends in the Church, who, objecting to the existence of both the League and its little organ, sedulously delry our humble work as that of party men, bent upon the destruction of all law and authority within the Church, if not of the Church itself. We are merely, they say in effect, "pestilent fellows," who should be treated as such. In truth we are, in our humble way, the real upholders of true Church rule and authority, when based upon sound foundations, and we are only in conflict with "authorities" when they exceed their rightful powers and trespass upon those of others.

But, notwithstanding these difficulties, our two years' work has established the magazine in the good will of hundreds of Church households, where it is now looked for, read, and valued.

The Churchman lays no claim to high literary style or capacity, the writers in it being very "common people"; indeed, not by any means "experts," Neither does it profess to have all knowledge on the subjects treated of. But the Council does claim that it seeks in all appearing in the paper to present in a clear and truthful manner the main causes of the present division in the Church of England, and to endeavour to bring back to the "old ways" Churchmen disposed to stray into superstition or indifference, by the presentation of the real doctrines and practices of our Church. With feeble hands the League tries to do this duty, leaving to God rather than to man judgment as to the purity of our motive.