During his reign at Lambeth there has been a sensible movement towards reunion; but the nation is uninterested.

If the Romanists have been less rebellious, the Evangelicals have lost almost all their zeal.

If the Church still witnesses to the truth of Christianity, it is with all her ancient inequalities thick upon her, turning her idealism to ridicule, and in the midst of a nation which has become steadily more and more indifferent to the Church, more and more cynical towards religion.
If there is peace in the Church, there is little of that moral earnestness in the life of the nation which in past times laid the foundations both of English character and of English greatness.

We are becoming swiftly, I think, a light and flippant people, the only seriousness in our midst the economic seriousness of our depressed classes.

It is not to any other class in the community that the zealot can address himself with an evangel of any kind.