CANON LIDDON ON THE WAR.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2877, 6 May 1878, Page 2

CANON LIDDON ON THE WAR.

The Rev. Samuel Minton sends us the following extract from a letter addressed to him by Canon Liddon:—"Let me thank you warmly for the closing words of your letter. Would that we could be spared the horrors of war which seems imminent, and for which, as far as I can' see, no moral justification can be given. As you may know, I am a very decided • High Churchman,' and have been so all my life; but,l hare had to confess to myself that in this great question the British Dissenters have been more loyal to the cause of truth and righteousness , than we of the Church of England. Certainly they have not been embarrassed by any- supposed necessity of supporting a Conservative Government in power, what* ever it might do; but, on the other hand, they have been evidently animated by much loftier aims and feelings than that of merely opposing it—a motive which I never hear attributed to them without some indignation: Alas! we English had a splendid opportunity 18 months ago of freeing those poor oppressed people from the yoke oC their cruel oppressors without shedding blood (for Turkey would never have opposed England and Russia), and, at the same time, of placing the best of barriers against Russian ambition in theDanubian provinces, in the shape of young, emancipated, and progressive races, warmly devoted to ourselves as the. champions^of their liberty. Instead of this, we have handed over to Russia the task of freeing them at a vast, cost of blood and treasure, and now it seems we are going to fight her out of sheer jealousy at the completeness of her success. . It is a terrible outlook, unless, through God's mercy at this '■ last moment, events should take an unexpected direction.'.' —Times.