Whereas, she is in manifest reality the Mother-Church herself.

It has an impressive array of officials, and committees, and Boards of Direction, of Education, of Lectureship, and so on--geldings, every one, shadows, spectres, apparitions, wax-figures: she is supreme over them all, she can abolish them when she will; blow them out as she would a candle.

She is herself the Mother-Church.

Now there is one By-law which says that the Mother-Church: "shall be officially controlled by no other church." That does not surprise us--we know by the rest of the By-laws that that is a quite irrelevant remark.

Yet we do vaguely and hazily wonder why she takes the trouble to say it; why she wastes the words; what her object can be--seeing that that emergency has been in so many, many ways, and so effectively and drastically barred off and made impossible.
Then presently the object begins to dawn upon us.