But Dr.Temple has a right to challenge his clerical critics for Christ's sanction of the present system, which is certainly founded on covetousness and produces strikingly hideous results.
His theological position may be gathered from the following reply which he made, as a Canon of Westminster, to a representative of the _Daily Telegraph_ nearly two years ago.

I do not think he has greatly changed.
He was asked how far the Church could go in meeting that large body of opinion which cannot accept some of its chief dogmas.

He replied: I can speak freely, because I happen to hold two of the dogmas which most people quarrel about--the virgin birth and the physical resurrection.

There are other heresies floating about! One of our deans is inclined to assert the finitude of God, and another to deny anything in the nature of personality to God or to man's spirit! Rather confusing! Philosophic questions of this kind, however, do not greatly concern mankind.

To believe in God the Father is essential to the Christian religion.